September 13, 2025

2 Emotion vs Intellect: Finding Joy and Prosperity

12 minutes

Hosts Lauren Archer and Kate Phillips join Suzanne Newman on the Answers for Elders Radio Show to talk about the new YouTube channel and podcast called Vivatude. What is Vivatude? A Movement. A Mindset. A Media Revolution. The show delves deep into the 8 Pillars of well-being — from emotional strength to financial freedom, from spiritual clarity to vibrant health. The show unites women over 40, expert hosts, and soul-nourishing conversations to help you live with more vitality, purpose, and power.

Lauren Archer explores pathways to greater fulfillment, energy, and joy on Vivatude. Lauren says, "There's one thing about emotional wellness that a lot of people don't quite get. In Western culture, we tend to come at everything through the intellect. And I know myself, every time something went off in my life, it was because of emotions, and they take over your mind when you are stressed, when you are angry, when you are frustrated, hurt, whatever is going on. It literally changes your brain. And so how do we approach that? So I have dedicated the last 30 years to working with people on different with different kinds of modalities and to help regulate our nervous system, regulate our emotions, and then come to that clarity through our heart and our soul."

Kate Phillips explores purpose and prosperity. Kate says, "The sandwich generation, I know I felt very squeezed from both generations at the time... We're sort of being pinched from all different directions. And I really take a holistic view of money because, just like Lauren was saying, we're so focused on intellect with money, we're so focused on the numbers, we think that money is all about the numbers. But I think there's even a bigger game to play: where does my allegiance go? Because money invites us to look at our priorities. It invites us to get creative, invites us to see life in a different way. It isn't always about the numbers. There are these skills that we're learning. Maybe we're learning how to receive or how to have boundaries or how to ask for help. Those are all the different ways that impact us both emotionally, but definitely financially as well."

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