Episode 144: Jennifer Jane Young & her book, Say Yes to Your YES: How to Trust YourGut and Take the Leap

ABOUT JENN

Jennifer Jane Young is an Intuitive Leadership Coach & Business Consultant to entrepreneurs and business leaders around the world, International speaker and author of "Say Yes to Your YES: How to Trust Your Gut and Take the Leap." Since 2011, Jenn’s leadership roles have spanned several continents, from leading a community of 5,000 entrepreneurs for the International Trade Centre as a United Nations Consultant to advising startups and multi-million dollar businesses. Through her workshops, talks, and her signature podcast, “Finding your Flow”, Jenn has helped global entrepreneurs & leaders change the paradigm in how they lead their businesses, transforming lives in the process.

CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS

• High school as a suffocating disaster.

• "...yoga became like a first vehicle that led me in a direction that was like, ⁓ this world feels good to me. This world makes sense to me."

• "...my soul was screaming to be unleashed."

• The programming -- both good and bad -- we get from our families.

• High Sensitivity Empathy.

• Self-Care vs. Burnout.

• Sensitivity as a super power.

• Being an ally to men's mental health.

• Glamorized leadership.

• What Your Yes is.

• 75 Summers.

• Moving to Mexico.

• Healing.

The MAIN QUESTION underlying my conversation with Jenn is, What are you waiting for when it comes to doing what YOU want to do, what you're being called to?

FIND JENN

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-jane-young
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/jennyjaneyoung
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jenniferjaneyoung11
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/jennifer.jane.young
• Substack: https://jenniferjaneyoung.com/substack
• Website: https://jenniferjaneyoung.com/

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CHAPTERS

00:00 - The Book Leads Podcast – Jennifer Jane Young

00:59 - Introduction & Bio

02:06 - Who are you today? Can you provide more information about your work?

04:42 - How did your path into your career look like, and what did it look like up until now?

14:07 - How does the work you're doing today reconcile to who you were as a child?

18:31 - What is your super power?

21:05 - Jenn's self-care as a Highly Sensitive Empath

32:59 - What does leadership mean to you?

36:56 - Can you introduce us to the book we’re discussing?

40:16 - What the title of the book means to Jenn.

42:01 - Can you provide a general overview of the book?

45:27 - What's changed in you in the process of writing this book?

47:46 - What the lessons from the Jenn's book and work look like.

58:26 - What’s next for your writing?

01:01:16 - What book has inspired you?

01:02:40 - What are you up to these days? (A way for guests to share and market their projects and work.)

This series has become my Masterclass In Humanity. I'd love for you to join me and see what you take away from these conversations.

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