7. Getting Unstuck & Taking Action Toward Living Your Best Life | Jen Underwood
Release Date: 01/15/2020
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info_outlineIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Jen Underwood.
Jen is a storyteller, a magician of words, and a connector of humans.
She does individual and group coaching with people who are ready to face the places they are stuck or avoiding action and fight for the life of their dreams. As Jen says, being stuck sucks. And she loves working to support people with living a life filled with purpose, happiness, and courageous vulnerability.
Jen has a Masters in Clinical Counseling and likes to combine her psychology and teaching backgrounds with real life experience, mixing emotional intelligence, strategy, and goal-setting with all her clients and programs.
In addition to her work as a coach, Jen has written for The Washington Post, The Mission, P.S. I Love You, Becoming You, and Elephant Journal.
Today Jen and I talk about how to feel your negative emotions so that you can actually heal from them, and the specific tools you can use to get unstuck effect real positive change in your life.
We also talk about:
- How Jen and I met and how we’ve both grown since then
- How most people have at least one area of their life — and many of us have more than one — where we feel stuck . . . and what to do about it
- How Jen transitioned from being a poor single mom to social work to starting her own business
- How she went from awareness to action as she worked to change her life
- The value of talk therapy for bringing awareness to your behaviors — and why that’s not enough
- Why she sold everything she owned and moved into a van with her daughter
- How she discovered that she could do the work that she wanted to do in the world — and now, how she’s doing it
- . . . and so much more!
Jen is such an incredible teacher and student and friend, and I think you got to see all of that in this episode.
I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did!
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Editing & Sound Engineering: Jordan Johansen