34: Learning to Let Go & Cultivate Emotional Intelligence | Shad Berry

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Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to perceive, express, and regulate our emotions. It’s a skill that requires constant work, but one that acts as a superpower, profoundly improving how we navigate challenges, opportunities, and even relationships. Join me today as I speak with Shad Berry about how we can grow in emotional intelligence to lead a more integrated, balanced, and grounded life, and no longer be ruled by anxiety, insecurity, people-pleasing, image management, and shame.

What you'll learn from this episode:

• Powerful tools to help you cultivate sustainable habits that increase peace in your life
• How to surrender our need for control & let go of ego
• The transformative power of practicing stillness and being silent
• Strategies to help us overcome rumination about the past, and placing our identity in Christ to truly experience fulfillment
• & So much more!

Resources:

• Kardia Collective | Kardia Collective Instagram
• Next Level Leadership
• Next Level Leadership Program
• Shad Berry Instagram
• The Voice of the Heart
• Next Level Leadership
• People Fuel

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Chapters

1. 34: Learning to Let Go & Cultivate Emotional Intelligence | Shad Berry (00:00:00)

2. Shad's story (00:03:58)

3. Being content in the waiting seasons (00:11:32)

4. Unhealthy habits & the need for control (00:12:14)

5. Channeling the need for control into other areas of life, e.g. perfectionism (00:12:39)

6. How to surrender in the struggle (00:13:27)

7. Strategies to help alleviate the desire to control (00:17:01)

8. How the limbic brain can't differentiate between time (00:17:51)

9. Doing hard things with other people (00:20:33)

10. The importance of feeling your emotions (00:21:53)

11. How emotions mask each other (00:22:16)

12. Control, anxiety, & rage as impairments of fear (00:23:24)

13. Immediate gratification vs long-term payoff (00:25:10)

14. Healthy outlets for addictions (00:27:16)

15. The determining factor that informed how Olympic athletes fared after their sport (00:32:08)

16. How not to base worth on performance (00:34:35)

17. The importance of having an inner circle (00:35:52)

18. Why the concept of balance isn't real (00:38:07)

19. Our needs are met in relationships (00:40:21)

20. How loneliness can actually shrink brains (00:40:50)

21. The double-edge sword of social media (00:41:31)

22. The difference between a dream & a fantasy (00:41:42)

23. How you can be surrounded by people but still feel alone (00:44:00)

24. How social media feeds ego (00:44:15)

25. Being aware of how we use social media (00:45:23)

26. The 3 S's (00:45:57)

27. How to get in touch & in tune with your emotional state (00:46:45)

28. The power of silence (00:47:08)

29. Paying attention to how impulsively we reach towards things (00:48:36)

30. The challenge & fears behind silence (00:49:11)

31. How to address intrusive thoughts (00:49:56)

32. Why there's no such thing as nature vs nurture (00:53:02)

33. Learning to cast your anxieties on God (00:53:48)

34. Creating a healthy routine to cultivate a strong mindset (00:55:35)

35. The power of doing hard things (00:59:41)