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The Holiday Conversation Guide
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More than 65 conversation cards sorted into rounds for Thanksgiving through New Year’s, plus a few host moves for when someone dodges a question or the talk drifts toward a fight.
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From Thanksgiving to New Year’s, the holidays put everyone you love in one room, including the people who know exactly which buttons to push. These are the tools I’d want at my own table this year.
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Skip the weather talk this year
Print the cards. Pass the bowl.
Every year we gather around the same table with people we love, and somehow we spend the whole meal talking about traffic and whose turn it is to bring rolls. The free guide gives you the questions, a simple game plan, and a few host moves so this year’s meal actually feels like a conversation.
- More than 65 prompts in rounds for gratitude, memories, kids, grandparents, and the people we’re missing
- Easy ways to get it started without anybody rolling their eyes
- Host moves for when someone dodges a question or the talk heads toward a fight
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