Episode Summary

Marc Brackett is the author of Permission to Feel and the Founding Director at Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. He is a driving force in bringing the power of emotional intelligence and basic emotional know-how into schools, communities, and professional settings across the world.

Marc joins us on Episode #26 for a dynamic and musing conversation about the vital role emotions do play in our lives. With equal measure of savvy perspective and humor, Marc helps us to see why emotions matter, how we can take a curious posture with them, and why it is important that we learn to regulate our emotional states. Indeed, he explicates how there is much at stake with the presence or lack of emotional intelligence. It impacts our decision making, our relationships and even our ability to achieve our dreams.

Along the way Marc tells us why it is essential that we get granular with our emotions, highlighting his R-U-L-E-R Approach to Emotional Intelligence. He also offers many personal examples of his own challenges and practices he uses to navigate his life through the global pandemic and beyond.

You’re invited to listen into Permission to Feel, because Marc is a capable guide who shows us the value and benefits that come when we attune to and balance our emotional lives.

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