Do We Choose The Experience Our Trauma Teaches Us? - with Yemi Penn
On a Mission Podcast
Ellie McKay
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
From homelessness to CEO, the incredibly inspiring journey of Yemi Penn is an empowering way for anyone to kickstart the New Year!
A situation only has the meaning that we choose to attach to it which Yemi has demonstrated time and time again. At age seven, she was sexually abused by a family member which she suppressed for decades until she felt worthy enough to heal and communicate her experience. Irrespective of what our pain is, owning it liberates and affirms us which has led to Yemi creating her first documentary titled ‘Did I Choose My Trauma?’.
Having spent a big part of her childhood in Nigeria and being homeless as a single parent to two children, Yemi almost inherited the story that suggested life needed to be a struggle. In her wildest dreams, she couldn’t have imagined that the life she now lives was even possible. Not just the phenomenal level of business success she has achieved but the unique perspective she has adopted not just from philosophy or coaching techniques but from lived experience.
She is absolutely smashing life out of the park speaking on TEDx stages and was recently interviewed by best-selling author, Jack Canfield where she discussed her work in the mindset transformational space.
We go off on MANY tangents with this one, it was an incredible conversation with an incredible lady. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | And now this week I am joined by a very special lady. There is no denying that she is on a hell of a mission. |
| 0:06.5 | It's the fabulous um yummy pen. So thank you so much for joining me, Yemi. For those of you who |
| 0:12.0 | do not know her, she's a British foreign Nigerian living out in Sydney, Australia at the moment. |
| 0:17.2 | An engineer by profession, an entrepreneur by passion and a mindset transformation coach by mission. |
| 0:24.4 | Yemi is a mum and offer. She's got a great boot. Did you get the memo? Because I didn't which we're |
| 0:29.7 | talking to. She's a TEDx speaker, a thought leader and she has also been involved in a hugely |
| 0:36.9 | powerful documentary. Did I choose my trauma? Which was actually stemmed from a powerful message |
| 0:44.9 | coming from Yemi's own personal experience of turning her trauma and transmuting that into power. |
| 0:52.3 | But before we get into that, let's just say hello to the fabulous lady. |
| 0:56.4 | Hello, thank you so much for this. Can I just say I'm impressed with how you read there and |
| 1:01.9 | summarise it because sometimes until I hear someone else say I just think, Yemi, what are you doing? |
| 1:06.9 | So thank you for the warm welcome and virtually capturing what what I do so well. |
| 1:12.7 | It's really weird though because I don't think that we do all this work on yourself but I don't |
| 1:17.0 | think we fully appreciate sometimes what we've achieved until somebody else sort of summarises it |
| 1:25.2 | for us. And it's really interesting that so many of my guests say the same thing. They're like, |
| 1:28.9 | can you just follow me about and introduce me like that? Well, I'll be really cool. |
| 1:34.8 | If the podcasting doesn't work out, I'm a deal. I don't think you are. Well, you're doing great |
| 1:39.0 | job, but you're right though. I don't know whether it's humility. I don't know if it's light and |
| 1:43.6 | post the syndrome, but also my biggest fault that I need to get better at is I don't acknowledge |
| 1:52.0 | myself when I do something. And I'm just like I achieve something and I'm like next, let's move on |
| 1:57.3 | to the next project. So yes, that definitely be someone's job. You know what? And that's quite |
| 2:03.6 | interesting as well because this is a theme that constantly occurs with the sort of people have on |
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