Free cheat sheet · 4 positions · 3 steps

For professionals who lose frame in the conversations that matter most

Hold your frame when it matters. Without going cold or aggressive.

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The 4 value positions, the 3-step Cooperative Defense, and the exact scripts for the 3 most common frame attacks. The same playbook we teach in coaching, distilled to one page.

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What happens in a frame attack.

Someone makes a snide comment. You feel it land. What you do in the next ten seconds decides the rest of the conversation.

What most people do

“No, that’s not what I meant…”

You start explaining. Justifying. Defending on their terms. They steered the moment the second you started, and now you are operating inside their frame.

What high-value people do

Name the dynamic. Ask what they need. Hold the line.

They do not explain. They do not attack back. They name what is happening, redirect the energy, and stay in their own frame. The cheat sheet is the playbook.

Once you have the move, every hard conversation changes. You stop reacting. You start running the room.

What you’re getting

Four sections. One page.

Read it once and you carry it into every hard conversation that follows. No fluff. No filler.

01

Diagnostic

The 4 Value Positions

Find which position you collapse into when challenged.

02

Decode

The 3 Attack Types

Negative Friend, Jealous Coworker, Family Anchor. Recognize each in the first sentence.

03

Playbook

The 3-Step Cooperative Defense

Word-for-word scripts for every attack type. Use this week.

04

Self-Test

Find Your Collapse Trigger

Three prompts. The specific situation where your frame slips.

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Why this playbook works when nothing else does.

19 years. 12,200+ alumni. The frame control conversation comes up in almost every coaching call we run, whether the trigger is a difficult family member, a threatened coworker, or a friend who has not caught up to your growth yet.

Most advice on this is theory. Confidence affirmations, posture tips, breathing exercises. None of it survives contact with a real attack. What survives is a sequence. A move you have already practiced before the moment hits.

This cheat sheet is the move.

It is what we teach in the podcast and in coaching, distilled to one page so you can have it in front of you the next time it matters.

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