Succeed If You're Empathetic & Driven - Melody Wilding - #315

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, my beautiful friends in Podcast Land. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Melody Wilding. She's an executive coach and an author, and we're talking about how to succeed if you're empathetic and driven. Being a driven but sensitive individual is a fairly interesting blend. You have all the desire for high achievement and go getting, but also overthink pretty much everything, which slows you down. Thankfully, Melody is a specialist at coaching what she calls Sensitive Strivers, and we get to go through her framework today. Expect to learn how to channel your emotions into an advantage, why trusting your gut is a skill, how to let go of being a perfectionist, how to stop overthinking, why empathy can help you to beat the competition, and much more. I genuinely do think that this combination of empathy and drive is a very unique way to look at the business world. When we think about commercially successful individuals, we think about the wolf of Wall Street, go get a success by any means. We don't often think about the person who's laying awake at night considering whether that awkward exchange with a colleague is going to come up tomorrow during the meeting or not. It offers some very unique opportunities for that person because of how they see the world, but it also offers unique challenges. And I'm glad that Melody is coming at this from a neuroscience, psychology and a biology perspective because it helps us to really kind of see under the hood about what's going on here. I think it's a very valuable area of research. In other news, this podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. You may have been thinking, I really would be interested in working with a therapist or a counselor. I've heard people that go and do it, they get great results out of it, but you might not have found one in your area. You just might not be bothered to be able to go and get one or you might be so busy that you don't have time. BetterHelp will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. It's not a crisis line, it's not self-help, it is professional counseling done securely online. There's a broad range of expertise and counselors available, which may not be available wherever you are. The service is available for clients worldwide. You can log in to your account at any time and send a message to your counselor. You'll get timely and thoughtful responses plus you can schedule weekly video or phone sessions. BetterHelp is committed to facilitating great therapeutic matches so they make it easy and free to change counselors if needed. It's more affordable than traditional offline counseling and financial aid is available. If you're prepared to pay for a PT, you should be considering paying for a therapist. That's the way that I see it. The mind is far more complex than the body and yet almost everybody has some form of training partner or some PT and very few people yet have realized just how good life could be if they were working with a therapist. Over a million people have taken charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional at BetterHelp and you can get 10% off your first month by going to betterhelp.com/modernwisdom that's better, help.com/modernwisdom.
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