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311: How to Get People to Believe--What It's Like in the Belief Builders' Academy

Release Date: 09/23/2024

353: 3 Ways to Manage Your Emotions for High-Stakes Conversations

The Elegant Warrior with Heather Hansen

Ever feel your heart race or your voice shake the moment you need to ask for a raise, set a boundary, or give tough feedback? High-stakes conversations don't have to be high-stress battles. In this episode, communication expert Heather shares three powerful tools to help you master your emotions and handle "difficult" conversations with clarity and calm. You’ll learn how to shift your mindset from "combat" to "collaboration" using the BEAR technique - understanding how your beliefs lead to your energy, actions, and results. Heather breaks down how to stop viewing others as enemies and how to...

352: Three Tools for Mastering "Difficult" Conversations

The Elegant Warrior with Heather Hansen

In today’s episode of The Elegant Warrior, Heather breaks down why “difficult conversations” are only difficult if you believe they are. Whether you’re giving or receiving feedback, negotiating a raise, setting a boundary, or asking for help, Heather shares three practical tools to help you prepare mentally, emotionally, and strategically. Drawing from her experience as a trial attorney, communication expert, and advocate, Heather explains how your beliefs shape your energy, your actions, and ultimately your results. You’ll learn how to reframe the story you’re telling yourself,...

351: Your Playlist, Your Enneagram, and Your Wisdom with Susan Drumm

The Elegant Warrior with Heather Hansen

In this episode of The Elegant Warrior, Heather welcomes leadership expert Susan Drumm to explore how music, neuroscience, and the Enneagram can transform your leadership and your life. Susan shares her fascinating journey from Harvard Law School to consulting, television, acting, and ultimately leadership development, showing how following intuition and curiosity can lead to extraordinary growth. Together, Heather and Susan dive into practical tools for recognizing patterns, disrupting limiting behaviors, and building new mental “playlists” that support empowerment, confidence, and...

350: What is Motivational Interviewing and Why Should I Care? With Kim Bisset

The Elegant Warrior with Heather Hansen

In today’s episode, Heather sits down with Kim Bisset to explore Motivational Interviewing and why it is such a powerful tool for communication, leadership, coaching, and advocacy. Rather than relying on pressure, persuasion, or fixing, Motivational Interviewing focuses on curiosity, collaboration, and helping people uncover their own reasons for change. Drawing from Kim’s expertise and Heather’s background in law, coaching, and healthcare communication, this conversation breaks down what Motivational Interviewing really is, what it is not, and why it works so well in high stakes...

349: Does Thought Beat Action? Manifesting, Preparing and Acting for 2026

The Elegant Warrior with Heather Hansen

In today’s episode, Heather challenges one of the most popular beliefs in personal development: that mindset alone creates change. While visualization, manifestation, and positive thinking all have value, Heather explains why none of them work without action. Joined by frequent guest Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, Heather explores how thinking, dreaming, preparing, and acting each play a role in real transformation and why action is ultimately what creates momentum. Together, they unpack the limits of visualization and manifestation when they are not paired with effort, practice, and follow...

348: THIS is Way More Important Than Mindset! Why Action Matters More Than Intention

The Elegant Warrior with Heather Hansen

In today’s episode, Heather challenges one of the most popular ideas in personal development: that mindset alone creates change. While visualization, manifestation, and positive thinking all have value, she explains why none of them work without action. Drawing from her own journey with weight loss, running marathons, writing books, and building a career in advocacy and communication, Heather shows how real transformation only happens when thinking turns into doing. Backed by research, neuroscience, and practical tools, this episode is a powerful reminder that intention without action keeps...

347: Unfolded - How to Believe in Yourself and Your Ability to Fly

The Elegant Warrior with Heather Hansen

In today’s episode, Heather welcomes authors, leadership consultants, and husband and wife team Dr. Linda Schubring and Brian Schubring to explore the deeper meaning of identity, transformation, and trusting your inner map. Together, they discuss their bestselling book Unfolded: Lessons in Transformation from an Origami Crane, a powerful allegory that invites readers to rediscover their inner wisdom and reshape how they show up in the world. Through stories of leadership coaching, personal reflection, and creative collaboration, Heather, Linda, and Brian unpack how uncertainty, change, and...

346: The New Power Pose-and How to Use It to Win

The Elegant Warrior with Heather Hansen

In today’s episode, Heather invites you to rethink everything you’ve been taught about power poses, confidence, and presence. While the classic “hands-on-hips” stance is often linked to authority, this episode reveals a far more effective and far more compassionate power move: simply sitting down. Drawing from real experiences in leadership, advocacy, and high-stakes conversations, Heather shares how lowering yourself to someone else’s level can transform interactions, build trust, and leave a lasting impact. From courtroom moments to everyday leadership lessons, you’ll see why...

345: How to Avoid Being Scammed by AI, Other, and Yourself

The Elegant Warrior with Heather Hansen

In today’s episode, Heather Hansen breaks down one of the most important skills we all need in a world shaped by rapid information, social media trends, artificial intelligence, and constant noise: the ability to avoid being fooled, misled, or scammed. As a trial attorney who spent decades cross-examining witnesses and uncovering the truth, Heather Hansen shares a simple but powerful four-part process you can use to stay discerning, think critically, and protect yourself from false ideas, misleading content, and even your own unexamined thoughts. Whether it is viral AI clips, trending online...

344: How to Show Compassion

The Elegant Warrior with Heather Hansen

In today’s episode, Heather Hansen explores one of the most powerful tools we have for connection, credibility, and healing: compassion. Drawing from research, courtroom experience, and two decades defending healthcare providers, Heather Hansen breaks down the real meaning of compassion and the specific actions that genuinely make people feel seen, heard, and supported. She also shares new insights from recent medical research on how compassion improves patient outcomes, reduces burnout for healthcare providers, and strengthens every relationship in your life. Whether you are a leader,...

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If you want to learn how to believe in yourself and all that’s possible for you, you need to join the Belief Builders’ Academy. If you want to learn how to get others to believe in you and your value, you need to join the Belief Builders’ Academy. In today’s episode, Heather talks to two BBA members and they share their experiences.

In this conversation, Debbie and Amy share what they’ve learned after a year in the Academy. They share how learning about beliefs, delight and evidence has changed their lives for the better. Don’t miss this conversation, especially if you want to learn more about the membership!

Doors to the Belief Builders’ Academy open on Sept 30th, and it is only $97 a month. You can cancel anytime Here’s the link for the waitlist: https://beliefbuilders.myflodesk.com/.

Debbie is the co-founder of Tessie Pearl, a community for widows where women will experience emotional healing, build financial confidence and rediscover life's passions. Retreats and memberships will be starting in 2025. She is on social media, YouTube and her website is tessiepearl.com.

Scams are a concern for everyone these days and widows are especially targeted. Debbie has a PDF of some common scams that we can protect ourselves from.

https://tessiepearl.com/can-you-spot-a-scam

Amy is a single mom, a life science and biotech program manager and a consultant. She’s very active in her daughter’s Montessori school

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