Episode 727: Identity, Decisions, and Doing the Inner Work with Heather Chauvin

About this episode

Heather Chauvin discusses identity, decision-making, and self-trust in a conversation about living authentically and fighting for aliveness.

Heather Chauvin is back on the show, and honestly, every conversation with her feels like a masterclass in telling the truth. Heather is a leadership coach who helps successful women live, work, and parent on their own terms, and she practices every single thing she preaches, whether that's kayaking Alaska or snowboarding with her kids. In 2013, a stage 4 cancer diagnosis cracked her life wide open and pushed her to take a deeper stand for change, and she has been helping women do the same ever since. In this conversation, we go deep on identity, decision-making, self-trust, psychedelic therapy, and what it actually means to fight for your own aliveness in a world that is constantly pulling your attention outward. This one is meaty and I can’t wait for you to hear it! What you’ll hear in this episode: Resentment is almost always a sign that you've crossed your own boundary, and it points you right back to what matters. Heather likes to say, you're not stuck, you're avoiding a decision– and her one question cuts right through it. Self-trust is a practice, and you build it with small decisions, not big leaps. Aliveness requires a fight right now, and Heather makes the case that we…

People in this episode

Host: Andrea Owen

Guest: Heather Chauvin

Topics covered

• identity
• decision-making
• self-trust
• psychedelic therapy
• aliveness
• women empowerment

Keywords

• leadership coach
• self-care
• emotional regulation
• resentment
• boundaries
• cancer diagnosis
• personal growth

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