“In anxiety lies immense power.”
Do you know the common denominator in all your anxiety? You. As the founder of a wellness company, Melanie Weinberger knows from first hand experience how debilitating anxiety can be. Listen as she uses her own personal journey to provide insights and tools for turning your own anxiety into an asset.
About the speaker
Melanie Weinberger creates initiatives that elevate the experience of life. Her new project, Mindlight delivers Emotional Intelligence training to the modern workforce. Prior to Mindlight, Melanie founded Wellshift, which delivers wellness programs into companies across America. Melanie is also a founder and active leader of Peace Potluck, a grassroots organization that brings communities together to facilitate local progress of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. In her additional time, she consults with brands to help launch social good initiatives, and leads study groups for those eager and ready to live life at a mission-driven level.
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Anxiety and excitement come from the same place in the brain. It's just the lens through which you're looking at it.
These coping mechanisms we learn throughout life become our operating system, and it's actually how we end up showing up everywhere in the world.
You're always going to be trying to create something you've never done before. It's the nature of humanity. You just have to have the tools to cope with it,
Futuring [is] where you create this fake future of failure and then you live into it because the interesting thing is that the pictures you create in your head, your body thinks they're real, no matter what they are, and starts to react to it.
The thing about anxiety that bothers me is that we are not taught how to deal with it.
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