Hello my beautiful friends in podcast land. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Melody

Wilding. She's an executive coach and an author and we're talking about how to succeed if you're

empathetic and driven. Being a driven but sensitive individual is a fairly interesting blend.

You have all the desire for high achievement and go getting, but also overthink pretty much everything,

which slows you down. Thankfully, Melody is a specialist at coaching what she calls

sensitive strivers and we get to go through her framework today. Expect to learn how to channel

your emotions into an advantage while trusting your gut is a skill. How to let go of being a perfectionist,

how to stop overthinking, why empathy can help you to beat the competition and much more.

I genuinely do think that this combination of empathy and drive is a very unique way to look

at the business world. When we think about successful commercially successful individuals,

we think about the wolf of Wall Street, go get us success by any means. We don't often think about

the person who's laying awake at night considering whether that awkward exchange with a colleague is

going to come up tomorrow during the meeting or not. It offers some very unique opportunities for

that person because of how they see the world, but it also offers unique challenges and I'm glad

that Melody is coming at this from a neuroscience psychology and a biology perspective. It helps

us to really kind of see under the hood about what's going on here. I think it's a very valuable

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