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This is a recording of the November 2021 EQ Conversations with Dr. Ajené Wilcoxson.Find out more, as well, on our YouTube channel.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast on iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

This is a special year-end retrospect episode. We've compiled some highlights from our best shows of 2021. We hope that you'll find these to be as inspiring as they were to create. Many of them are insightful, some are funny and others just reveal why emotional intelligence is so important for all of us. We hope you'll enjoy and happy New Year!Here is a link to the best-of collection of episodes referenced in this episode.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast on iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.Music from Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/roo-walker/deeperLicense code: LB1BTATHVF4VIFGQ

Previously in Episode 57, Anxiety And Emotional Intelligence, Jeff talked about his personal struggles with anxiety. And how, with the help of those around him, and his continued understanding of EQ, he now has a better outlook on how he addresses anxiety in everyday situations.We explore that more in this episode. How can YOU support those around you? What are the key ingredients to help?Active listening is key to being in the moment. And EQ competencies are extremely helpful. Especially emotional literacy, empathy, and consequential thinking.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast on iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

We welcome Quincy Williams to our podcast. He helps companies save money by implementing & managing their wellness program. He's helped Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority win "Healthiest Employer" in 2017 & 2018.Quincy also owns his own fitness consulting business Q-Fitness LLC which specializes in personal training, group training & fitness coaching.His approach is focusing on educating clients in ways that can support their goals and exercise adherence. We talk about making that connection on how we think and how we stay healthy. Is being healthy a part of your identity?Quincy dives into what calls the 4 pillars of health - emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental. A big part of staying on track for any of these pillars of health is understanding how we understand how our neural pathways can divert our healthy actions.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Spirit of EQ's monthly EQ Conversations. Eric Pennington is joined by Kelli Schweitzer of the Ohio Nurses Association. Kelli discusses her journey and how COVID-19 is impacting the nursing field.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

With us on this episode is Lynette and Jim Vaive, Co-founders and Partners of Spirit of EQ.Lynette Vaive is a Certified EQ Facilitator and Master Trainer; she employs effective experiential learning design to make training both powerful and meaningful. As a PCC Professional Certified Coach (International Coach Federation), Lynette partners with clients to maximize their personal and professional potential.As a successful business owner for over 30 years, Jim Vaive speaks the language of CEOs and uses his personal experience to connect with decision-makers in the business arena. Jim completed extensive training in spiritual direction, along with deep dives into emotional intelligence work. He is trained as an emotional and spiritual intelligence coach, and is a PCC Professional Certified Coach (International Coach Federation). Jim founded Spirit of EQ in 2012 to better address the burgeoning needs he saw unfolding around him.So what is Spiritual Emotional Intelligence?As Jim states...I would say that spiritual emotional intelligence is a blending of a couple of different things. And it's been said by many wisdom teachers throughout the ages that emotional intelligence without spiritual intelligence is two dimensional at best. And spiritual intelligence, when added to emotional intelligence, gives our life color and texture. Because if you have one of those without the other, it's more black and white and two dimensional.Lynette also tells us...Spiritual emotional intelligence is the capacity to utilize both spiritual and emotional insight, to create a full and meaningful life.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

The September episode of EQ Conversations with artist, singer and songwriter Hannah Bowers.This was originally published on the Spirit of EQ YouTube channel.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

We certainly have had months to become familiar with dealing with the unknown. Some things we just have to let go. And envision the best (or better). It's a perfect time to reflect, and see the possibility beyond the clouds of the unknown.We dig deeper into this in this podcast.We mention a Tim Ferris and Brene' Brown interview in this podcast. link to Brene' Brown and Tim Ferris interview.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

As we have said many times, emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to identify, understand, and use your own emotions in positive ways to relieve anxiety, as well as relieve stress, too communicate effectively, to empathize with others, to overcome challenges, and to defuse conflict.But having a high EQ does not mean a person isn’t occasionally anxious or depressed.Jeff talks about his personal struggles with anxiety. And how, with the help of those around him, and his continued understanding of EQ, he now has a better outlook on how he addresses anxiety in everyday situations.In this episode, Jeff mentions The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook. Packed with the most effective skills for assessing and treating anxiety, this evidence-based workbook contains the latest clinical research. You’ll find an arsenal of tools for quieting worry, ending negative self-talk, and taking charge of your anxious thoughts.Know that there is always help. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. 800-273-8255.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Do you know someone who never seems to be able to control their emotions? Perhaps they are constantly doing or saying the wrong things, at the wrong time. Or maybe they're always judging others, but have a hard time accepting criticism. If this describes someone you know, chances are high that this person struggles with low emotional intelligence.Having low EQ or low emotional intelligence can negatively impact not only your interpersonal relationships but also your mental and physical health.The ability to regulate emotions is one of the components of emotional intelligence. People with low EQ often struggle to understand and control their emotions. We cover some ground on what you, as a person increasing your emotional intelligence, can do when those around you aren't. And know this, you aren't alone.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Bill O’Herron, LCSW is a corporate executive, practicing therapist (weekends and evenings),and writer who seeks to use his 33 years of financial sales management experience, 24 years ofmarriage, 15 years of counseling clients, and 8,500 hours of sitting quietly to help his clientsbetter understand themselves and deepen their relationships.Bill teaches that all our relationships with others, especially our marriage, started in 4th grade,when our limbic-emotional body learned, absorbed, and inherited our parents’ lives andexperiences. We are all therefore married to our own old, unconscious emotions more sothan to our spouse.His research shows that relationships fail for one single reason: a lack of understanding ofone’s own emotions and reaction patterns created in childhood. His work with archetypesdemonstrates also that relationships are not a single experience or dyad between two people butare eight unique relationships all occurring at the same time.Three key concepts he uses to accelerate client’s work are Stand in the Fire, 2nd Law ofThermodynamics at Home, and Relatus. These three concepts provide direct access tounderstanding self.He celebrates in and humorously expounds on the belief that working on self, which willautomatically improve the dynamics of all our relationships, is the most important thing in life,and that what we do right now in our relationship echoes through posterity, changing who ourgrandchildren's children become.Bill graduated from Middlebury College, VT with a BA in English, and earned a Master ofScience degree from Columbia University School of Social Work, NY in ’03.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

John O’Hagan is a Co-Owner and Multi-Million Dollar Producer at Retro Real Estate.But he began as a kid who wanted to be a rock star.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

This episode will be in your podcast player Monday July 26, 2021.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

We field some great questions from our listeners during this episode, include...What role does EQ play in the workplace (2:20)Will I be perceived as weak if I let EQ help me with decision making (4:16)What is Emotional Intelligence (9:22)Won't it get too personal? (15:00)How can I learn what emotions I'm feeling (22:56)Name one concrete benefit to learning EQ (26:47)What is the difference between EQ and IQ (28:46)What are neural pathways? (35:10)How do you relate to someone who is not emotional intelligent? (40:56)How do you apply EQ when decisions need to be made in seconds (45:50)In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

Revisit. It can be powerful tool.We thought this would be a good time to revisit Emotional Intelligence. For both people that have been listening to us for a while. And then people that are relatively new listeners that maybe don't understand or aren't familiar with some of the things we talk about. Let's revisit the model that we use, which is from a company called Six Seconds. We us this as the basis of our model of emotional intelligence.If one of the things we talk about in this episode strikes a chord, go back to our library and you'll be able to find more on a whole podcast about one of these models.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

For those of you who have listened to every episode, or those that have just found our podcast. Coming up on June 28, 2021, we revisit Emotional Intelligence.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

These resources are related to what are we going to do in a "post pandemic" world.As Eric puts it...But the reality is life is full of unknowns and there's going to be things that are going to be delivered at your door that you never expected you could have never predicted. And quite frankly, you may just not like.What are some of the things some of the trends that we may be looking at?  Like changes in the way that we work. Companies are planning to downsize facilities because they found out that they can work from home instead of coming into an office. And this scenario is loaded with benefits and detriments.What will your life be in hybrid mode? All-in mode? Do you have continued self-care modes in place to support what is coming?Ultimately, your resource building will need your decision making skills.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

In our next episode, we go in-depth about how we need to prepare, to build resources, in our "post-pandemic" world.In your podcast player June 14, 2021.In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

When you have a diagnosis of a some sort of chronic illness, all of a sudden life is reimagined."We tend to see, you know, all the bad things about this new diagnosis, as opposed to understanding that there are some really great teachable moments. And some opportunities for growth opportunities for us to learn to be courageous."Aleasa Word is a Certified EQ Practitioner, Assessor, DEI Consultant and coach. She engages in deep dive conversations to reframe limiting beliefs, empower individuals and shift organizational culture.With an academic background in EI, leadership, trauma, conflict resolution and organizational behavior, she utilizes technical skills and real world experiences in her Chapter 2 Living & Embrace programs to help improve leadership effectiveness, intrinsic motivation, cultural dexterity and confidence. https://www.awordandcompany.com/In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.

"When you have a diagnosis of a some sort of chronic illness, all of a sudden life is reimagined.""We tend to see, you know, all the bad things about this new diagnosis, as opposed to understanding that there are some really great teachable moments. And some opportunities for growth opportunities for us to learn to be courageous."Aleasa Word is a Certified EQ Practitioner, Assessor, DEI Consultant and coach. She engages in deep dive conversations to reframe limiting beliefs, empower individuals and shift organizational culture.With an academic background in EI, leadership, trauma, conflict resolution and organizational behavior, she utilizes technical skills and real world experiences in her Chapter 2 Living & Embrace programs to help improve leadership effectiveness, intrinsic motivation, cultural dexterity and confidence. https://www.awordandcompany.com/In each episode, Jeff and Eric will talk about what emotional intelligence, or understanding your emotions, can do for you in your daily and work life. For more information, contact Eric or Jeff at info@spiritofeq.com, or go to their website, Spirit of EQ.You can follow The Spirit of EQ Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, on Android, or your favorite podcast player.New episodes are available on the 2nd and 4th Mondays every month!Please review our podcast in iTunes. Click on the link for an easy, step-by-step tutorial.