What's your Emotional Quotient (EQ)? Yes, for this one, the Yes Girls explore this topic with Adelle Onyango, a media personality, author, social activist, speaker, poet, podcaster, entrepreneur, and honorary Yes Girl (@adelleonyango), and the mighty force behind @legallycluelessafrica.

This Season 7 Yespisode explores EI or EQ firstly through in-studio role-playing as the quintessential Yes Challenge. And who better to do this with the girls than Adelle?! She embodies personal development, self-awareness, and emotional healing, all of which are evident beyond her obvious badassery. She sits in as the judge, challenger, and all-seeing, all-knowing guest expert.

Timestamps for Specific Segments:

(0:00 ) Intro

(2:35 ) Meet Adelle Onyango

(8:10 ) Role-play challenge: navigating disagreement in relationships

(23:25 ) Reflections about the "Amy and Jerome" role play

(25:05 ) Importance of self-expression during arguments: using "I feel" statements

(26:50 ) Importance of understanding your partner's attachment style

(30:54 ) How to make sure you and your partner feel seen, respected & loved in the relationship

(33:15 ) Progressive arguments - how to get better at solving issues

(35:55 ) The importance of understanding your personality & attachment styles

(42:08 ) Importance of taking responsibility for your personal issues/challenges in romantic/platonic/professional relationships

(48:00 ) Importance of staying true to ourselves when handling conflict in any relationship

(48:40 ) Importance of handling the root cause of our personal issues as opposed to the actions of the person that triggered the reaction

(50:00 ) How compromise works when handling conflict

(52:00 ) Adelle rating Akumu's and Claire's role-play efforts

(54:10 ) Key takeaways from the first part of the episode

(56:00 ) Adelle's personal reflection on the concept of emotional intelligence

(1:03:00 ) The importance of taking time to process your emotions

(1:07:50 ) Are we going too far when communicating how we feel?

(1:11:00 ) Discussing cancel culture

(1:19:32 ) Where to find Adelle online

(1:20:43 ) What Adelle has recently said "yes" to

(1:22:59 ) Outro

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This Yespisode will provide you with valuable insights into how to enhance your emotional intelligence, particularly in relationships and the workplace, the benefits of doing so, the importance of empathy, social awareness, and effective communication, as well as the ultimate goal of being self-aware before anything else.

So tune in as Adelle and the Yes Girls explore how to move from handling emotional baggage obliviously to being captains and proper caretakers of our emotional ships.

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Important resources:

Emotional intelligence: How we perceive, evaluate, express, and control emotions: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-emotional-intelligence-2795423 

Emotional intelligence assessment or test:

https://globalleadershipfoundation.com/geit/eitest.html 

Find out more about Adelle Onyango here:

https://www.adelleonyango.com/ 

Learn more about Legally Clueless (Kenya's first syndicated podcast) here:

https://www.adelleonyango.com/legallycluelessafrica 

https://www.legallycluelessafrica.com/ 

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