#404: Unlocking The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Create Your Best Life w. Heather Chauvin
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Mimi Bouchard
4.4 • 953 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, Heather Chauvin, author and host of the Emotionally Uncomfortable podcast, shares her insights on reverse engineering how you want to feel, highlighting the importance of healing, evolution, and emotional intelligence. Over the past decade, Heather's life story has served as a testament to the incredible power of personal transformation. It all began with a life-altering cancer diagnosis, which set her on a path of profound self-discovery.
Heather also emphasizes the significance of setting boundaries, both professionally and personally, as a crucial step in preventing burnout. If you're prepared to embrace emotional intelligence, conquer burnout, and explore the depths of your personal growth, this episode with Heather Chauvin is a must-listen.
Topics:
- Heather's incredible decade-long journey of personal transformation, exploring the pivotal moments and experiences that reshaped her life.
- Receiving a life-changing cancer diagnosis and how it served as the catalyst for Heather’s remarkable transformation.
- Insights into the concept of reverse engineering one's emotional state and learn how it played a pivotal role in Heather's healing and personal growth.
- The significance of emotional intelligence, highlighting how it can lead to profound personal change. Although many challenges that are perceived as "hard" are often emotionally uncomfortable, Heather offers strategies to navigate these emotions effectively.
- Establishing both professional and personal boundaries as a critical step in preventing burnout.
- Discover the practical wisdom that Heather has gained on her journey, focusing on the emotional and mental aspects of personal growth and evolution.
- Reflecting on the holistic approach to healing and recognizing the importance of addressing not just the physical body but also the underlying emotions and beliefs that shape our lives.
- Transitioning from a rebel to conforming to societal expectations, especially regarding motherhood and the identity shift that accompanied it.
- Strategies to thrive without experiencing burnout and the significance of emotional resilience and self-awareness in maintaining a fulfilling and thriving life.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When I started the journey I thought feeling alive meant feeling good and now percent of the time |
| 0:07.6 | I know that in order to feel that intense joy or gratitude I also have to feel the opposite. I've now have this mindset of like life is a game and you just need to learn to play it. I don't believe in hard things. Every time I hear that term, I get incredibly triggered |
| 0:27.4 | because hard is not an emotion. |
| 0:34.0 | My name's Mimi Bouchard, founder of Superhuman, the transformational app that helps you become your future |
| 0:40.0 | self so that you can finally start attracting more joy, abundance, health, wealth, and love into your life. |
| 0:47.0 | And that's also my mission on this podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | Meet people whose lives have been transformed in big and small ways, but always for the better. |
| 0:56.6 | They tell me how they did it so that you can too. |
| 1:02.1 | Heather, welcome to the Mimi Podcast. I am so excited to have you here today. |
| 1:07.0 | Thank you, Mimi. I'm excited to have this conversation. |
| 1:10.0 | I love it when the universe just aligns likeminded people so I'm excited to see what happened. |
| 1:15.6 | I know I can't wait too. I was just looking you up online right before this episode and I was watching your |
| 1:20.4 | TEDx talk and it was so inspiring. I can't wait to pick your brain about so many things. watching your |
| 1:23.6 | TEDx talk and it was so inspiring. I can't wait to pick your brain about so many things but |
| 1:25.2 | before we dive in you have this great saying it is time to feel alive. |
| 1:30.4 | What does that mean to you and how has that guided your choices in life? |
| 1:35.0 | It's interesting because I feel like the definition of a liveness for me keeps evolving over time, |
| 1:41.0 | but it's really been my number one focus for the last 10 years. |
| 1:45.0 | And when I started the journey, and we could talk a little bit about the story behind it, |
| 1:49.7 | but when I started the journey, I thought feeling alive meant feeling good 100% of the time and that if I wasn't |
| 1:58.0 | aligned or didn't feel good then I was doing something wrong. |
| 2:02.7 | And now aliveness or feeling alive to me |
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