Books like Talkabout by Alex Kelly

A timeless guide to improving interpersonal skills, communication, and personal success, based on Dale Carnegie’s classic principles of influence and effective relationships.

Learn to navigate high‑stakes, emotionally charged conversations with confidence, ensuring productive outcomes in work and life.

A practical guide that equips readers with conversational techniques for professional networking, social events, and everyday interactions.

Explores how language shapes interpersonal relations and drives therapeutic change in psychotherapy.

" The key to success in life and business is to become a master at Conversational Intelligence. It's not about how smart you are, but how open you are to learn new and effective powerful conversational rituals that prime the brain for trust, partnership, and mutual success. Conversational Intelligence translates the wealth of new insights coming out of neuroscience from across the globe, and brings the science down to earth so people can understand and apply it in their everyday lives. Author Judith Glaser presents a framework for knowing what kind of conversations trigger the lower, more primitive brain; and what activates higher-level intelligences such as trust, integrity, empathy, and good judgment. Conversational Intelligence makes complex scientific material simple to understand and apply through a wealth of easy to use tools, examples, conversational rituals, and practices for all levels of an organization. "--

Alex, a 14‑year‑old raised as a boy, discovers he has both male and female sexual organs. Rejecting his mother’s prescribed hormones, he chooses to live as a girl.