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#101 Title:
Modern Manners
Special Guest: Lizzie Post, Etiquette Expert
and Author
Description: Are you behaving yourself these days? Lizzie Post, from the Emily Post Institute, is joining us to make sure! She’s helping to make the world a better place - one manner at a time - by sharing her etiquette advice. Lizzie suggests ways to handle offensive jokes, tipping at restaurants, overdue thank you cards and more.
Duration: 53:00
Related Podcast:
Raising Respectful Children
Index:
00:29 Intro: Modern Manners
01:54 Emily Post Institute
06:44 Listener's Top 3 Pet Peeves
18:44 Is it Appropriate to . . .
26:28 More Etiquette Advice
35:55 Listener: Customer Service
41:25 Listener: Wedding Gifts
44:39 Listener: Offensive Jokes
47:33 Listener: Dinner Invites
50:19 Closing Comments
51:33 Closing Track: Neopolitan Dreams
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About Lizzie Post
Lizzie Post is Emily Post’s great-great-granddaughter and the author of How Do You Work This Life Thing? (April 2007, Collins). Inspired by Lizzie’s own experiences as a college student at the University of Vermont, How Do You Work This Life Thing? is a lifestyle guide for young people living on their own for the first time. Lizzie uses stories of mishaps from her own life, and the lives of her friends, to show the 18-25 year-old crowd the importance of etiquette in building good relationships with bosses, landlords, roommates, neighbors, friends and significant others.
As Lizzie points out, communication, compromise, and commitment are the key ingredients in making these relationships work. She also explains that etiquette is truly about building relationships, establishing boundaries and improving your life, not about which fork to use.
Lizzie is a graduate of the Emily Post Children’s Train the Trainer Program and has worked with students from second grade through high school teaching table manners, introduction skills, and how etiquette can make a difference.
Lizzie is an in-demand source of modern etiquette advice for newspapers, magazines, television, radio and the Web. Her interviews include The Today Show, Weekend Today, The Tyra Banks Show, People, Glamour, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Associated Press, Redbook, USWeekly.com, and Martha Stewart Living Radio.
Lizzie also writes about 20-something life and etiquette at her blog “Not Gonna Lie…” She covers all the ups and downs of living with roommates, traveling for business, getting along with neighbors, dinner parties with friends, and much more.
Lizzie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in art education and currently lives in her native Vermont where she works for The Emily Post Institute.
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Etiquette Resources from Emily Post
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About the Book
Hot Topics in How Do You Work This Life Thing? include:
• How to avoid killing your roommate
• The etiquette of couch crashing
• Significant others, one-night stands, and things that go bump in the night
• Entertaining—From wine tasting to beer pong
• Solving the dirty dish dilemma
• Five top potential war zones at home
• Other people’s stuff (borrowing)
• Socializing—From etiquette with friends to meeting new people
• Landing the perfect job
• Tactics for graceful interaction with sales people, professors, landlords, co-workers and neighbors
Read more . . . .
Other Emily Post Books
5 Ways to Combat Rudeness
1. Don’t take it personally. Perhaps the offender is having a bad day.
2. Size up your annoyances. Is it worth it to make a fuss over something small, or is it a waste of your emotional time?
3. Set a good example. Rudeness begets rudeness. If you speak sharply to the bank teller, don’t be surprised if you get the same treatment in return.
4. Count to ten. When someone’s behavior makes you angry, take a few deep breaths and ask yourself, “Is it really worth blowing my stack over this?”
5. Laugh it off. If you can’t come up with a friendly joke, just chuckle and change the subject.
Source: The Emily Post Institute
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Related Websites and Articles
Guide to Etiquette Basics by RealSimple
How to handle unexpected guests, awkward situations, other people's pets and kids ... There are many other links to useful related articles on this page!
48 Ways to Be Nice and Improve the World Around You by RealSimple
Forty-eight almost effortless ways you can do a little good in the world
Dear Social Grace by Charles Purdy
Common sense courtesy for real people by etiquette expert and writer Charles Purdy, a.k.a. Mr. Social Grace
The Responsibility Project by Liberty Mutual
They believe the more people think and talk about responsibility, the more the world becomes a better place.
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