603: How to Build Emotional Intelligence and Transform Every Area of Your Life with Dr. Travis Bradberry

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

If there’s one hidden force sabotaging your health, happiness, relationships, energy, and productivity, it’s your emotions. Most of us were never taught how to manage them, which leaves us stressed, reactive, and held back from the life we want. Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the key to changing that.

My guest today is Dr. Travis Bradberry—bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 and The New Emotional Intelligence, with over 5 million books sold and a following of 2.6 million on LinkedIn. Recognized as the world’s leading expert on EQ, his research has helped millions unlock greater success and fulfillment.

In this conversation, Dr. Bradberry unpacks the science and strategies of emotional intelligence—from the “anger funnel,” to perspective shifts, to why you can’t increase your EQ without first increasing your self-awareness. You’ll discover how EQ impacts stress, happiness, conflict, and energy—and how small, repeatable behaviors can literally rewire your brain and put you on the path to a higher EQ.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Why Emotional Intelligence Matters More Than Ever
How Our Brains Give Emotions the Upper Hand
Tools to Rewire Emotional Pathways
The Role of EQ in Stress Management
Two Ways That EQ Impacts Happiness
The Difference Between IQ and EQ
Why EQ Is the Antidote to Stress
The Power of Perspective Shifts
Why Self-Awareness Is the Foundation of EQ
Relationship Management: Losing Battles to Win Wars
Simple Phrases That Rewire Your Brain
Integrating EQ into Your Miracle Morning

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.6	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level,
0:16.5	as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves
0:22.3	and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do
0:26.9	to do the same. Ready? Here we go.
0:31.4	Hello friends. Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast. I am your host Hal Elrod.
0:35.0	And if you want to know the one thing that you can do to improve your
0:38.3	health, your happiness, relationships, energy, productivity, and a lot more, the next few minutes
0:44.4	could literally change your life. Now, what is that one thing? I'll tell you right away. It is
0:48.4	improving your emotional intelligence. And my guest today is Dr. Travis Bradbury. He is a dual PhD holding expert,
0:56.7	not a lot of those, in clinical and industrial psychology, and he's the award-winning best-selling
1:01.4	author of the new emotional intelligence. His books have sold over 5 million copies, and Dr.
1:08.0	Bradbury is a leading authority on this topic with over 2.5 million followers
1:12.5	on LinkedIn alone. Today you are going to learn practical ways and strategies to
1:18.3	immediately improve your emotional intelligence and how you can apply those to improve
1:23.1	literally every area of your life. This is one of my favorite podcasts I've done in a long time. It will help you. So tune in. Here we go. Travis, Bradbury, it is good to have you on the podcast. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me. This is our first time meeting. I always like to, when that's the case, I like to start there. So we're meeting for the first time. And I think it's kind of fun if you're a podcast listener to be like, oh, this is cool. I'm like a fly on the wall getting to hear the first
1:48.6	conversation between these two individuals. So I'm excited for this because your expertise is
1:53.7	emotional intelligence. To me, it's one of the most important topics for every human being to become
2:00.7	proficient in.
2:01.6	And it's the one that is by default,
2:04.6	we're often left to the emotional example set forth by our parents
2:09.6	or the beliefs or the habits, so on and so forth.
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