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Hosted by Ryan McLaughlin · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 23 episodes
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You've already lost something to bad conflict skills. A relationship. A promotion. A friendship. Sleep. Maybe all four. You just called it "drama" or "bad luck" instead of what it actually was: a skill you never learned. Anatomy of Conflict fixes that. Each episode, mediator Ryan McLaughlin breaks down the science of why humans get stuck in conflict — and gives you one specific, research-backed tool to get unstuck. Marriages. Boardrooms. Family dinners. Hostage negotiations. The tools are the same everywhere. Every episode hands you one move you can use tonight.
Ryan McLaughlin hosts Anatomy of Conflict, a society show with 23 episodes published.
Women have an invisible line in their marriages — and most of them don't even know exactly where it is. But once they cross it, it's over. Dr. Sonja Benson has spent nearly 30 years watching the same pattern play out: sh
Your sun sign is the least interesting thing about you. Your moon sign is how you actually feel. Your Mars sign is how you conflict. Emmy Jane Carden — mediator in Minnesota and Texas, astrology student for two decades —
Think doubling down on a single niche is the only way to perfect your craft? In this episode of Anatomy of Conflict , we completely flip the script on traditional professional advice for mediators, therapists, and facili
Attorney Cody Blades has one question she asks every client before any negotiation starts: if there were no restrictions, no court, no opposing party — what would you actually want to happen? It sounds simple. It isn't —
AI can replicate Sam Ardery's five-finger risk framework. It can summarize his talks better than he can. So what does a mediator actually do that a language model can't? Ryan and Sam explore the irreducible human work at
What happens when you inject AI into a therapy session? Researchers tried it. They compared human-only, AI-only, and hybrid approaches — and the hybrid won. It outperformed both. Ryan McLaughlin sits with what that means
A litigator with 15+ years of Big Law experience sits down with Ryan to settle a real disagreement: does a great mediator need to know the law — or just know people? Dani Audette has seen mediations fail because the medi
In this bonus mini-episode, Ryan goes off-script — who he is, why he started this show, and what drives his obsession with conflict. If you're new here, start here. Ryan started this podcast for the same reason he spent
Money is the #2 cause of divorce — behind only infidelity — but unlike infidelity, it's quiet, chronic, and invisible until the damage is done. In this episode, Ryan gets personally real about his own tightwad tendencies
Claude is back for round three, and this time we're settling the debate. Projection cards, oracle decks, tarot — call them whatever you want, but the mechanism is pure neuroscience. In this episode, Claude breaks down th
You can't think your way to a new solution using the same thinking that got you stuck. Suzanne Grandchamp, a divorce attorney with 30 years of experience, breaks down how tarot and oracle cards create embodied space — he
Everyone's ex is one. Every difficult boss is one. Every impossible co-parent is one. Lets cut the word open — trace it from a Greek myth through the DSM-5, through contested prevalence data, through TikTok — and land on
You're not fighting about what you think you're fighting about — you're caught between two biological drives, novelty and stability, that evolution built into the same body and never resolved.
Therapists know more about communication than anyone. They study attachment theory, practice empathy for a living, and teach couples how to fight fair. So why do counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists divorce at ra
Conflict isn't a logic problem. It's a biology problem. In this episode: three tiers of neuroscience-backed tools — from somatic resets to paradoxical interventions — that work at the kitchen table, the conference table,
Conflict is a single-matrix trap; tarot can be the bisociative hammer that breaks it open. We’re stripping the occult away to show you why a well-timed card is the most effective psychological de-escalator in a high-conf
Everyone told you to start with "I feel." Nobody mentioned that what comes next is almost never a feeling — it's a prosecution. Five studies, one fMRI machine, and a live tarantula prove your brain knows the difference e
You said you were sorry. Their face went flat. Sound familiar? Research shows that the apology most of us default to — the partial, hedge-your-words, "I'm sorry you feel that way" version — actually drops resolution rate
Cookies. Tarot cards. A jousting pillow. Why a 3rd object between two people changes the neuroscience of the room. Three episodes of expert interviews distilled.
40 years of high-stakes mediation. The lesson? The fight is never about what people say it's about. Arthur Pressman on why the best lawyers have nothing left to prove, why people only hear what supports their position, a
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