5 Seasons · 57+ Episodes · Apple Podcasts Top Rated

MasterfulListening

The world's first super rad listening school.

Listening is the most important skill none of us were ever taught. Every episode is a practice: epic stories, profound wisdom, a hint of profanity, and tools you will only hear if you are actually listening.

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Svetlana Saitsky — host of Masterful Listening
"We cannot listen to others if we first do not listen to ourselves."
— Svetlana Saitsky, CPCC · Host of Masterful Listening

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The full listening school in your hands. 15 chapters, 30 mantras, a phrasebook, a 30-day practice, and a self-scoring self-assessment. Guide subscribers hear about it first.

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From the show

Mantras that move.

"I am exactly perfectly on time."

Ep. 48 · The Radical Medicine of Slowness

"A no is a yes to something better."

Ep. 2 · The Power of The Pivot

"Direct is kind. Stop trying to be nice."

Ep. 40 · Direct Is Kind

"Ask great questions, get great answers. Ask crappy questions, ruin your life."

Ep. 39 · The Art of Inquiry

"Lose your shit, find yourself."

Ep. 5 · Own Your Mess

"This is it. This is life in this moment."

Core Mantra · All Seasons

"Do no harm. But take no shit."

Ep. 7 · Boundaries as Self-Love

"No is a full sentence."

Ep. 2 · The Power of The Pivot

"Peaceful productivity is the new hustle."

Ep. 3 · The Slow Revolution

"What you seek is seeking you."

Rumi via Svet · All Seasons

"Get the message. Forget the messenger."

Core Mantra · On Receiving Hard Truths

"Really Awesome Detour."

Ep. 29 · The RAD Framework

"Simplicity is genius."

Core Mantra · All Seasons

"Wherever you go, there you are."

Core Mantra · On Presence

"The quality of your listening determines the quality of your life."

Ep. 1 · Welcome to the School

"Feelings are not facts. But they are real."

Ep. 55 · Permission Slip to Feel Like Sh*t

"You can't listen your way out of something you behaved your way into."

Ep. 43 · Radical Accountability

"Rad is the detour that changes your whole route."

Ep. 50 · A Rad and Mellow Reunion

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Meet Svetlana.

Svetlana Saitsky is a certified executive coach, facilitator, and Mental Wealth advocate. With 17+ years across Tech, Finance, Life Sciences, and Education, she has coached leaders at Google, Apple, Airbnb, Netflix, Asana, Square, and more.

She is a certified Ambassador of Compassion through Stanford Medical School's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research — and a lifelong artist, hat maker, and radically poetic human being who has lived many lives in one.

She built an entire career around the one skill nobody was ever taught. This is that school.

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