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• Create a free THINQ Account and download the THINQ Media app on your smart TV to access more trusted content like this on topics from all channels of culture at thinqmedia.com.
• Apply the THINQ Framework as you think through cultural topics.
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• Unlock the THINQ Summit 2025 All-Access Pass before it’s released to the public
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  • Let’s Talk Relationships
  • Let’s Talk Mental Health
  • Let’s Talk Tech Detox
  • Let's Talk Civility

More from the THINQ Podcast Network:

• Rhythms for Life with Rebekah and Gabe Lyons
• The InFormed Parent with Suzanne Phillips
• NextUp with Grant Skeldon
• NeuroFaith with Curt Thompson
• UnderCurrent with Gabe Lyons

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• THINQ Media
• UnderCurrent with Gabe Lyons
• NextUp with Grant Skeldon
• Rhythms for Life with Rebekah and Gabe Lyons
• The InFormed Parent with Suzanne Phillips

• You may also like Cultivating Virtue by David Brooks.
• Create a free THINQ Account and download the THINQ Media app on your smart TV to access more trusted content like this on topics from all channels of culture at thinqmedia.com.
• Apply the THINQ Framework as you think through cultural topics.
• Attend THINQ events where you can gather with like-minded leaders, ask better questions and have conversations that lead to wisdom:
• Sign up for THINQ Summit 2026 October 1-2 in Nashville, TN.
• Host a THINQ Family conversation series in your home: 
  • Let’s Talk Relationships
  • Let’s Talk Mental Health
  • Let’s Talk Tech Detox

More from the THINQ Podcast Network:

• Rhythms for Life with Rebekah and Gabe Lyons
• The InFormed Parent with Suzanne Phillips
• NextUp with Grant Skeldon
• NeuroFaith with Curt Thompson
• UnderCurrent with Gabe Lyons

Now on YouTube! Subscribe, Like, and Share: 

• THINQ Media
• UnderCurrent with Gabe Lyons
• NextUp with Grant Skeldon
• Rhythms for Life with Rebekah and Gabe Lyons
•  The InFormed Parent with Suzanne Phillips

• You may also like Creating Space for an Outpouring by Zach Meerkreebs.
• Create a free THINQ Account and download the THINQ Media app on your smart TV to access more trusted content like this on topics from all channels of culture at thinqmedia.com.
• Apply the THINQ Framework as you think through cultural topics.
• Attend THINQ events where you can gather with like-minded leaders, ask better questions and have conversations that lead to wisdom:
• Sign up for THINQ Summit 2026 October 1-2 in Nashville, TN.
• Host a THINQ Family conversation series in your home: 
  • Let’s Talk Relationships
  • Let’s Talk Mental Health
  • Let’s Talk Tech Detox

More from the THINQ Podcast Network:

• Rhythms for Life with Rebekah and Gabe Lyons
• The InFormed Parent with Suzanne Phillips
• NextUp with Grant Skeldon
• NeuroFaith with Curt Thompson
• UnderCurrent with Gabe Lyons

Now on YouTube! Subscribe, Like, and Share: 

• THINQ Media
• UnderCurrent with Gabe Lyons
• NextUp with Grant Skeldon
• Rhythms for Life with Rebekah and Gabe Lyons
•  The InFormed Parent with Suzanne Phillips

Today’s episode features Gabe Lyons—author, speaker, and co-founder of THINQ Media. In this episode, The Cost of Conversation, Gabe explores how meaningful dialogue—not just talking more—is essential in our polarized age, and he highlights what it really costs us to engage in it well. Though the costs are real, Gabe emphasizes the payoff: deeper trust, communal wisdom, the ability to discern better paths forward, and a culture that resists division and builds bridges rather than walls.

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