Magnetic Communication

Why do you keep replaying conversations in your head, the one that shows up in the shower or at two in the morning? Communication coach and emotional intelligence trainer Sandy Gerber calls these lingering conversations, and in this episode she shows listeners how to finally put them down. A lingering conversation is the one that ended but never actually finished. It might be the one nobody went b...

Send us Fan Mail How to stop negative self-talk is easy to teach and much harder to do when you're the one sitting on the couch, run down and believing every word your inner critic says. In Episode 116 of the Magnetic Communication Podcast, communication coach and emotional intelligence trainer Sandy Gerber shares what happened after a run of powerful events was followed by the flu and a lupu...

Send us Fan Mail Emotional outsourcing is one of the biggest relationship trends of 2026, and there's a good chance you're doing it without realizing it. Have you ever vented to your best friend, your group chat or even a chatbot about something your partner did, and realized later that the one person you never told was your partner? In this episode, Sandy Gerber explains why so many of...

Send us Fan Mail What to say when someone is being passive-aggressive, and how to say it without starting a fight or letting one little comment sour your whole day. "Must be nice to have time for that." Most of us have heard a comment like that and spent hours replaying it, wishing we'd said something. A passive-aggressive comment is a difficult conversation someone started through...

Send us Fan Mail How to handle difficult conversations: you've rehearsed it in the shower, in the car, and at two in the morning. Then they say one sentence and your perfect script is gone. You skipped a step. Almost everyone does. In this episode, Sandy shares the moment she was tested on her own tool, in a conversation with a friend she loves, after hearing a comment that hit harder than sh...

Send us Fan Mail Emotionally intelligent written communication gets your message answered instead of ignored. This one's coming back by popular demand, one of the most requested episodes we've done, and after last week's rejection email breakdown, it felt like time to pull it back out. Two tools. Both simple. Both things you can use today. The CLEAR Email Method walks you through fi...

Send us Fan Mail AI writing tells are easier to catch than most people think, once you know what you're listening for. This week I got a rejection email that read perfectly. Every sentence in place, every word doing its job. And on the second read, I knew a person hadn't written it. In this episode, I walk through the exact moment I caught it, why it stung more than any no I've had...

Send us Fan Mail How to make instant connection comes down to one sentence, and most of us never say it. Last week, a client introduced Sandy Gerber at a webinar not as her coach, but as her "bestie," the person she hears from every week teaching her one new way to have a better conversation. Sandy was speechless, which almost never happens. In this episode, Sandy breaks down Impact Out...

Send us Fan Mail I statements vs you statements: most people have heard of the swap, but there's a second step almost nobody teaches, and it's the one that actually keeps people at the table. In this episode, communication and emotional intelligence coach Sandy Gerber breaks down why "you" statements shut people down before they even hear what's being said, and why the sta...

Send us Fan Mail Why AI resumes aren't getting you interviews has nothing to do with formatting.  In this episode of Magnetic Communication, Sandy Gerber flips AI on its head and reveals what's missing underneath a polished, AI-written resume.  Sandy finishes a client story she started back in the Be Chosen, Not Ghosted series: a resume that sat untouched for eight months, and the one re...

Send us Fan Mail There are toxic phrases to avoid that can cost you a meeting, or a relationship, without you ever seeing it happen. You say something in a meeting. Nobody responds. Two minutes later someone else says the exact same thing, and the room lights up like they invented it. In this episode, communication coach Sandy Gerber names the phrases that quietly cost people the room, at work and...

Send us Fan Mail There's a communication tool Sandy just taught the marketing team at Google Cloud, and one attendee grabbed her right after the session because she needed it that same night. It's a confidence tool for connection you can use with your partner, your team, a coworker, your relatives, even the stranger in line ahead of you. It costs nothing, takes no special skill, and work...

Send us Fan Mail How to sound confident in an interview comes down to something most people never learn: which words actually land, and why the same pitch can fall flat with one person and win over the next.  In this finale episode of the three-part series Be Chosen, Not Ghosted in a Tough Job Market, Communication & EQ Trainer, Sandy Gerber reveals the framework to help you be the best candid...

Send us Fan Mail How to stand out in a job interview isn't about a better answer, it's about what a hiring manager remembers after you've left the room.  In this episode of Magnetic Communication, Communication Coach & EQ Trainer, Sandy Gerber explains why so many candidates sound identical right now, and walks through two real client stories that prove the fix isn't a smar...

Send us Fan Mail Why you're not getting hired probably has nothing to do with your résumé.  In this episode of Magnetic Communication, Communication & EQ Trainer, Sandy Gerber breaks down the real reason qualified candidates keep getting ghosted after interviews and it's not the tough job market everyone blames.  Sandy shares the personal story that shaped how she coaches people thro...

Send us Fan Mail Your body reacts before your mind even knows what happened. This episode breaks down a 3-step tool for catching that moment, before the reaction takes over. Communication & EQ Trainer, Sandy Gerber just came home from 10 days of total silence at a Vipassana meditation course: no phone, talking, reading or writing, 8 sittings a day, 10.5 hours of meditation, over 100 hours tota...

Send us Fan Mail Overwhelmed and burned out? You're not alone. This episode is for anyone running on empty who needs to stop but can't figure out how. Sandy is 11 days out from a 10-day Vipassana silent meditation course. She has an active book campaign running, a Speak Brave cohort mid-flight, and a business that doesn't know it's about to lose its CEO. And she's going an...

Send us Fan Mail The EQ tool to help you pause before you react, that's what you're walking away with today. And once you understand how you're wired, you'll see why pausing has always been harder than it looks. Sandy is 15 days out from a 10-day Vipassana silent meditation course. No phone, no talking, ten hours of meditation a day. She signed up curious and a little brave. Th...

Send us Fan Mail How to quiet your inner critic isn't about positive thinking or pushing the voice down. It starts with understanding the two modes that keep feeding it — and most of us have been running both without knowing it. Your brain cycles between craving — the reaching, the not yet, not enough, not there — and aversion — the avoiding, the deciding not to look at the thing directly. A...

Send us Fan Mail What if the thing driving your ambition and the thing making you feel like you're never enough are the same voice? I just confirmed my spot in a 10-day Vipassana Meditation course starting July 1st. Ten days of complete silence, no phone, no family, no talking, no writing, four in the morning wake-up bell, ten hours of meditation a day. There's nothing serene about why I...

Send us Fan Mail Poor communication ends more relationships than infidelity or money and most couples don't see it coming until they've already drifted. I've been married twice before this marriage. The first one lasted four months. The second one lasted seven years. Neither one ended because we stopped loving each other. They ended because we stopped communicating and I didn't...

Send us Fan Mail Sandy once turned down a business proposal based entirely on a hand gesture. Good numbers. Solid pitch. She still walked away because something his hands were doing told her more than everything he said. The most popular post on her website is called 7 Hand Gesture Body Language Tips to Influence Communication. Hundreds of downloads, keeps finding new people, because we all have t...

Send us Fan Mail The last episode on neck body language broke comment records. So Sandy's back with more because you asked, and because the most popular BLOG post on her website still has gems worth pulling out. In this episode, Sandy shares a handful of face and neck body language tips you can use in your very next conversation. Today. From the smile that actually changes your tone of voice,...

Send us Fan Mail There is a gesture your body makes when you're stressed or overwhelmed and you're probably doing it without knowing it. And it's telling everyone in the room that you're not as confident as you want to appear. In this episode, Sandy breaks down what the neck-touch gesture actually means, why your nervous system gives you away before you've said a word, and...

Send us Fan Mail Right now people are typing "how to calm my mind" into AI at 11pm. Not Google. Claude and ChatGPT. In bed because they can't turn their brain off. This episode is for them and all of us. Sandy is a self-development junkie who reads every book, tries every practice, and (bless him) field-tests most of it on her husband Kris. In this episode she walks you through the...