Live Q&A Session #2: Emotional Intelligence. Taking charge of your life & career with Antesa Jensen.

This session with Antesa Jensen, emotional intelligence expert and coach, will deep dive into some of the topics she covered in the fourth episode of Femme Lead Podcast! We discuss taking charge of your environment, mirroring a behavior, and having the courage to look within for the answers to build the career that fulfills you and, ultimately, the life you want. This session was live-streamed via the Femme Lead Podcast Facebook page. If you want to know when the next live Q&A session happens, follow us @femmeleadpodcast on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn.

Antesa's recommended resources:

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Book by Cheryl StrayedTiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Book by Cheryl StrayedGuiding Principles for Life Beyond Victim Consciousness, Book by Lynne ForrestTedTalk: 100 Days of rejection: https://www.ted.com/talks/jia_jiang_what_i_learned_from_100_days_of_rejection?language=en

You can check the video of the live stream on multiple channels:

Facebook -http://bit.ly/LiveSession-EmotionalIntelligence
Youtube - https://youtu.be/rKHBd0ca43E
Website - https://www.femmeleadpodcast.com/post/live-q-a-session-2-emotional-intelligence-taking-charge-of-your-life-career-with-antesa-jensen

Discussion points:

01:47-  For those who perhaps will not have a coach for guidance, could you recommend some literature on the matter? What books would you say are a must-read of inspiration?

08:53 - How do you escape the victim's mindset? How can we move from this mindset?

15:43 - How to structure your transition in your career. Step by step discussion. 

21:30 - Realize that there is no arrival in your career path. It is not laid out for you. 

24:09 - How do you tackle the situation when you know it is time to start something new but you are not sure whether the timing is best. What do you tell people who always balance their need for security vs their need for adventure?

30:30 - What were your biggest emotional challenges in this process? And about those you might have been tougher, how did you approach them and came on top of them? What did you learn?

37:29 - How do you create trust in a new work environment?

42:10 - What would you recommend for lucidity in making decisions? How do you break everything down and reassembly yourself?

52:40 - How can women overcome the uncomfortable feeling in these conversations and which strategies work for women best?