Discover True Understanding in Life
Join our podcast to explore deeper connections and empathy.

Join our podcast to explore deeper connections and empathy.
At 'I want to feel understood', we aim to enhance the human experience by fostering deeper connections. Our podcast explores the fundamental need for understanding in relationships and personal growth.
This series is a not-for-profit effort by Adrian Hosford and Andrew Bailey. Our objective is to share and grow the knowledge and skills around the key enabling skill in life - effective communication between humans.
Adrian Hosford
I grew up as part of a large family on a farm in the west of Ireland and through the hard work of my parents was educated in Dublin and graduated from Trinity college
My early career was in the rough and tumble of the advertising world in London where I was determined to understand human motivations
Developing my marketing skills and research knowledge led me to move on to the marketing teams of ICL computers and then BT - the telephone company. Increasing the number of telephone calls became my number one objective for many years. Developing campaigns like Beattie (Maureen Lipman) and ‘it's good to talk’ led me to understand that “ improving human connection” was the key to success. Huge benefits flow from improving the quality and quantity of communication. To understand communication in depth I set up a comprehensive research forum involving experts in all aspects of the subject including Professor Gerry Egan - one of the world’s leading experts on dialogue and counseling. With Andrew Bailey’s help we produced the “talkworks” series which reached millions of homes in the UK. I now continue active research into ‘improving human communication’ and related projects in the hope of sharing the knowledge and skills.
Andrew Bailey
I’ve been interested in how people communicate (or fail to) throughout my career. I think my interest began when I was a journalist and learned how to interview people so they’d tell fresh, interesting stories, ones that other writers didn’t get. That became my edge.. After a decade in journalism, I moved into advertising, an industry that depends for its existence on understanding how human communication works (or doesn’t). My interest deepened when I met Professor Gerard Egan, a highly regarded American counselling psychologist, while working on a Millennium project for BT. Since then, we’ve collaborated on several books and counsellor training programmes. For me, the podcast is an opportunity to share what I’ve picked up along the way and learn more myself about how we can understand each better.
When we humans don't feel understood we feel isolated,uncooperative,frustrated, unhappy and unwilling to get involved.
Conversely, when we feel understood we feel included, co-operative,appreciated,happier and willing to get involved .
Understanding is a basic element of effective connection and it is what allows us to feel emotionally safe. To the extent that we feel accurately and empathically understood , we can trust and feel close to another.
The crux of how to feel understood is to know and use the skills and process of effective personal communication (particulary listening).
Then to apply them in understanding others.
By working on understanding others they are more litelyto want to undersand you, and you will have the skills to help them do so.
Open effective dialogue with both people taking turns and listening creates a new level of uunderstanding. The feeling is
wonderful.
"Feeling understood is a deep, driving and powerful human need. It is so basic to living that it gets overlooked and can be a 'blindspot'.
Paying attention to the what,why and how of understanding can make a enormous difference to our lives.
What we hope to achieve through this podcast series is is a deeper and fuller insight into the gift of understanding others and feeling more fully undertood ourselves.
We would love to hear from you on hello@iwanttofeelunderstood.com
Explore our special podcast series, 'I want to feel understood'. Join us as we delve into the importance of feeling understood in achieving meaningful connections and experiences in life.
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