Breaking Free from the Cage of Ambition and the Relentless Pursuit of More with Keren Eldad
Feel Good Podcast with Kimberly Snyder
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4.6 • 993 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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SUMMARY:
Kimberly interviews Coach Keren Eldad about her new book, 'Gilded: Breaking Free from the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism and the Relentless Pursuit of More.' They explore themes of emotional well-being, the societal pressures of ambition, and the journey towards personal fulfillment. Keren shares her insights on the emotional needs that drive human behavior, the importance of spirituality, and the influence of Kabbalah on her philosophy. The discussion emphasizes the need to break free from the hustle culture and find a more authentic path to success and happiness. In this conversation, Coach Keren and Kimberly also explore the themes of ego, anger, boundaries, career reconfiguration, authenticity, and personal growth. They discuss how understanding the ego as an opponent can help individuals improve themselves, the importance of breaking up with anger, and the necessity of setting boundaries to honor oneself. They also delve into the evolving nature of purpose and the significance of authenticity in personal and professional life. The discussion emphasizes the idea that true growth often requires breaking free from societal expectations and self-imposed limitations.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Gilded and Its Themes
02:49 The Golden Cage of Ambition and Perfectionism
05:58 The Illusion of Success and Fulfillment
08:50 Emotional Needs and Their Impact on Well-Being
12:04 The 12 Steps to Overcoming the Hustle
14:56 The Role of Spirituality in Personal Growth
17:52 Kabbalah and Its Influence on Philosophy
24:57 Understanding the Ego as an Opponent
26:26 Breaking Up with Anger
28:48 Navigating Boundaries and Self-Honoring
36:15 Reconfiguring Career and Purpose
38:34 Authenticity as a Power
43:38 The Trojan Horse of Personal Growth
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Feel Good podcast, which is all about heart-led living and wellness. |
| 0:07.8 | When we awaken the power of our hearts and let that guide us through our daily choices and decisions, through our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth, we will experience the most incredible |
| 0:22.8 | results and create more vitality, health, strength, peace, abundance, and love in our lives. |
| 0:32.0 | I am your host, Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author, founder of Saluna, |
| 0:39.3 | creator of the research-based heart-aligned meditation, wellness expert, nutritionist, and international speaker. |
| 0:45.0 | I am passionate about supporting you on your unique heart and wellness journey. |
| 0:51.4 | Let's get started. |
| 0:57.3 | Hi, everyone. wellness journey. Let's get started. Hi everyone and welcome back to our Monday interview show. I am so excited for our very |
| 1:03.6 | special guest here with us today. Her name is Karen Eldag and she has a new book out |
| 1:10.5 | called Gilded, breaking free from the cage |
| 1:13.7 | of ambition, perfectionism, and the relentless pursuit of more. |
| 1:20.1 | Karen, as I said the subtitle, I started to get goosebumps. |
| 1:25.2 | Karen is a top 10 executive coach by the International Coaching Federation, Real Leaders |
| 1:31.5 | Magazine, and Goop. She has degrees from all around the world, the London School of Economics, |
| 1:38.6 | the University of Jerusalem. She has lived and worked on 17 countries and on four continents. She coaches leaders all around the world. She speaks four languages, English, Spanish, Hebrew, and French. Wow, Karen, thank you so much for being here with us today. And congratulations on your new book. Thank you so much. The pleasure and the honor is mine. |
| 2:03.8 | You know, one of our cornerstones here, Karen, is emotional well-being. And when your book came |
| 2:09.2 | across my desk and I started to dive in, I thought how perfect and how much it would resonate |
| 2:15.4 | with so many of our audience members because we get a lot |
| 2:18.9 | of questions about burnout and, you know, as you say here, more and always just feeling like |
| 2:25.8 | we're never doing enough in our life. We can never just sort of feel that centeredness. |
| 2:33.2 | So I feel like your topic is really, you know, one that resonates |
| 2:36.4 | with a lot of people right now. As a coach or in your personal life, what drew you to this |
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