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Hi, it's Mariana. I'm the co-founder of Summer Fridays and hosts of The Life with

Marianna podcast. This episode is all about emotional intelligent with Dr. Elizabeth Crane.

In this episode, Dr. Crane breaks down emotional intelligence and its impact on how we navigate

life and relationships. And she shares practical tips for strengthening self-awareness, regulating

emotions, and improving our social skills through daily check-ins, body scans, and mindfulness

techniques. Dr. Crane also explains the difference between empathy and sympathy, how to set

boundaries to protect your energy, and ways to build deeper connections through active listening and communication.

If you guys want to listen to Dr. Crane, keep listening, and don't forget to subscribe to my

podcast to hear new episodes.

So what exactly is emotional intelligence?

So emotional intelligence really comes down to knowing yourself. It's having the ability

to tap into yourself, to check in with how you're feeling, and navigate life through your own

lens and the interactions that you have with others. In essence, it's sort of

reading a room. What are like some of these key components of this? Or how can somebody be like,

okay, maybe I need to be a little bit better about improving my emotional intelligence?

I think number one is self-awareness, really doing check-ins with yourself daily, and checking in with how you're

showing up in the room is really important for emotional intelligence. Being mindful,

not only of yourself, but of others, and really having that awareness, it's almost like spidey senses, I want to say, kind of out in the world, but then also

with yourself, just really being dialed into that.

And then that sort of moves into something else, which is the ability to regulate our emotions

and our emotional states.

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