695 | Learning to Connect to Your Emotions with Kim Korte

Own Your Choices Own Your Life

In this episode, we speak with Sensory Perception and Emotion Management Strategist, Kim Korte. Kim was born with a curious mind. However, she didn’t always use that gift to its fullest potential. After suffering through significant life events, she realized developing her curiosity muscle would help in her healing.

Further, as a business consultant, she loves repeatable processes and procedures. "I’m known for simplifying the complex." She would tell clients that, ultimately, she was so lazy, that she wanted to find the most efficient and simplistic way to enhance their business systems. She did the same with her emotions and thus was born the premise behind Yucky Yummy Savory Sweet: Understanding the Flavors of Emotions. Here, she poses the question: What if instead of relying on comfort emotions (like comfort food) to get us through the day, we became 5-star Michelin Chefs of our experiences? Her unique approach to emotional awareness and emotional intelligence offers an innovative way to create a connection to our emotions by using something familiar to us, like food. She explores how we experience our emotions from a combination of senses, including what we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell.

Her book suggests that just like the developed palate of a chef can distinguish the different flavours in food––we can increase our ability to capture the “flavours” of our emotions by enhancing our awareness of the sense of how we feel inside our bodies.

She believes we aren’t born with built-in emotional responses for every life event. However, we are born to feel emotions, and the emotion we feel is up to us.

In this episode, we discuss:

1) We can become Michelin Chefs of our own experiences by understanding our emotional awareness and emotional intelligence to connect to our emotions by using something familiar to us like food.

2) Kim believes that we aren’t born with built-in emotional responses for every life event; we are born to feel emotions and the emotions we feel are up to us. Connect with Kim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekimkorte/ Website: https://www.kimkorte.com/Email: [e-mail]

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Storytelling NLP Trainer, Speaker, Publisher & Author, 2xs Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories.

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life. She empowers people how to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.