The MaxLife Podcast with Ben Laws

#63: Why Trying to Control Everything Is Making You Miserable


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If you feel like you're holding everything together — and still feel unfulfilled — this conversation is for you. Lixuan An reveals the surprising emotional cost of control, why it’s rooted in fear, and how letting go is actually the beginning of real peace.

 In this episode:

  • The real reason high achievers struggle with letting go

  • How fear disguises itself as responsibility

  • What unhealed trauma has to do with control

  • A new way to understand parenting, ego, and emotional freedom

  • Why vulnerability is your most powerful leadership skill

 Comment below: What’s one thing you’re ready to release control over?

Guest Bio

Lixuan An was born in Beijing, China. She came to the US at the age of 15 to enter University of Texas at Austin. After graduation she spent 20 years in New York City and built a thriving career as a marketing maven in industry and in private equity. She and her teams developed award-winning branding and marketing campaigns for some of the largest Fortune 100 companies. She also led tech startups from raising seed funding to IPO. In 2005 Lixuan had a near death experience while giving birth. It took 3 days in the ICU for her to return to life. During this time Lixuan left her body and traveled to another dimension where she was shown the ultimate truths governing life and committed to a path of service to help human beings transform suffering into joy and fulfillment. Lixuan left the business world to embark on a two-decade long intensive study of philosophy, psychology, mysticism, religions, and a myriad of healing modalities from around the world. Today she is a renowned art curator, public speaker, spiritual teacher and mystical healer. Her lifetime commitment is to uphold the light, spread the light, be the light, and show others the light they are, and in so doing to co-create heaven on earth for all. With her empathy, compassion, intuition, and guidance from ancestral and cosmic realms, Lixuan helps individuals to investigate and understand the root causes of their sufferings and to help them remove obstacles on their path to joy, peace, fulfillment, and unconditional love and wellbeing. 

Lixuan resides in Silicon Valley and in Sweden. She regularly leads transformational retreats and workshops world-wide and has built meditation and medicine circles for thousands of people, in person and via zoom. She works with individuals, groups and organizations, and dedicates her life to the profound joy of facilitating and witnessing the healing and expansion of others. 

Contact Lixuan via email: [email protected]

Resources & Mentions

Why Hustle Is Failing: The New Future of Productivity with Jason Henkel

Lixan An’s TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTnaM6mYwUc


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