Calling all Emotional Badasses! HSPs, Trauma Survivors, and Mental Health Advocates
Emotional Badass
Nikki Eisenhauer
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I am Nicky Eisenhower, and this is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful. I'm wanted to create for a long time. I've been in mental health for about 12 years. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm a psychotherapist and a life coach. |
| 0:38.0 | And what I know to be true, what I've seen is that we don't do a very good job of mental health here in America. |
| 0:46.5 | We've thrown a lot of pills at human problems as we're losing connection in the time of technology. |
| 0:57.0 | So I thought, why not do something that really scares me? |
| 1:02.1 | I'm an introvert. I'm a highly sensitive person. I've done a lot of |
| 1:06.4 | healing of my own childhood wounds as I've figured out how to help other people |
| 1:12.0 | with theirs. |
| 1:13.0 | So when you go to school to become a counselor, |
| 1:16.0 | they tell you that you have to pick your specialty. |
| 1:20.0 | And I didn't really know how to do that. I knew I was called to work with people, but I didn't really know how to pick a specialty. |
| 1:28.0 | So I was in New Orleans when I was in graduate school that's where I'm from and Hurricane |
| 1:36.6 | Katrina hit and it pushed my program back so when I came back to the city I had to figure out how to finish my internship in the |
| 1:46.4 | middle of huge disaster with everyone that I know washed out, jobs washed out, my program washed out. |
| 1:55.0 | And what I came back to was a friend of mine |
| 1:58.6 | who had graduated the semester before, |
| 2:00.7 | and she said, Nicky, come work with me in this addictions clinic and I had already |
| 2:05.9 | worked in French quarter bars to put myself through school I had no desire to work with |
| 2:11.6 | addiction I had originally wanted to work with addiction. I had originally wanted to work with kids because I love |
| 2:15.4 | kids, I love their playfulness, I'm connected to their inner child. It's easy for me to connect |
| 2:20.9 | with kids. They feel safe with me, So I always thought I would do that. But here |
| 2:25.0 | comes Hurricane Katrina and throwing my plans kind of out of the water and I just needed an internship |
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