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Turning Opposition into Opportunity with JuNene K


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Have you ever been asked the question; what qualities would you like to see in your children as adults? Often the qualities we want to see are resiliency, confidence, compassion, and empathy. But how do we expect our children to have the attributes that we, as moms, have a hard time embodying? Today’s guest, JuNene K, took her own life circumstances and turned them into a path of education and healing, and she wants to help you to get there too. She is a social-emotional specialist, and a certified life coach with a goal to teach emotional control and resilience as a basis for all problem-solving. During today’s episode, she shares the story of turning points in her life that led her to turn pain into passion, and about working with emotional therapy to bring healing into her own life and the lives of others. She talks about control and acceptance before we explore why it is so important to realize who you are in order to walk through life with resilience. Today’s listeners will learn about the endless motion of mind, body, and spirit necessary to become the best version of yourself, through the daily practice of tending to each one - however that may look for you. We talk about affirmations, and the mind’s tendency to gravitate towards anything negative before discussing the essential piece of starting from within in order to give anything to those around you. Join us today to hear all this and more!

Key Points From This Episode:

  • What JuNene means when she talks about resiliency: the ability to bounce back.
  • Her perspective on failure; that it is not falling, but choosing not to get back up.
  • Stories of resilience in her life she describes in her book Unstuck and Unbothered.
  • How she learned emotional therapy working as the doctor and nurse on duty for her brother.
  • Why healing is not just physical, on this side of life, but continues when we transition. 
  • What it means to control the things that you can control and accept the things you cannot.
  • The importance of realizing who you are in order to embody resilience. 
  • Creating an endless motion of mind, body, and spirit to become the best version of yourself.
  • Recognizing that your mind gravitates towards negativity.
  • Turning thoughts into actions and knowing that you are the most powerful force in the universe.
  • How affirming herself and speaking changed JuNene’s reality.
  • The mental practice of self-preservation, taking care of yourself first.
  • Why not everything you have to do has to be for the kids too.
  • Starting from within in order to serve others.
  • Why presence is the biggest gift you can give to someone who is grieving.
  • The importance of allowing discomfort.
  • What is next on the horizon for JuNene: an even greater platform to impact audiences.
  • Her aim to create a space where people can come and recharge their batteries.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:


 JuNene K
JuNene K on Twitter
JuNene K on LinkedIn

JuNene K on Instagram 

Perpetual Motion Studios
Unstuck and Unbothered 

Tony Robbins

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