Episode 267: Consent, Emotional Intelligence and More with Karen B.K. Chan

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 517 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast we are talking about consent and some other extremely vulnerable topics with guest, Karen B.K. Chan. Karen is an award-winning sex and emotional literacy educator in Toronto, Canada, with over 20 years of experience. She is trained in creative facilitation, productive thinking and nonviolent communication. I have had Karen on my podcast guest wishlist for such a long time. I was so enthralled with her website. I read ALL.THE.THINGS. she has created, watched her YouTube channel and more. She is an amazing Emotional Intelligence educator and I'm excited for you to hear our conversation. In this episode Karen and I talk a lot about emotions, so much emotions y’all. But not only do we talk about emotions, Karen provides insightful advice and information on how to actually deal with emotions, how to feel our feelings and do the work. We also dive into sexual consent; how to navigate it, how to overcome emotional and social barriers relating to consent and letting go of guilt for creating boundaries around sexual intimacy. In this episode you’ll hear: Some ways to better deal with our emotions (8:42) How learning to navigate your feelings can lead to an outlet of creative expression, especially writing (11:24) How to deal with emotions when you are stressed or burnt out (16:01) Being innovative in your personal relationships as it relates to empathy, emotion, human connection and clarity (18:58) Working to decrease unconscious biases in our lives (28:37) Social and emotional barriers to sexual consent and how we can overcome them (37:14) How to let go of guilt for creating boundaries around sexual intimacy or sexual encounters (46:21) http://yourkickasslife.com/267 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	Or how do I say no to A, B, or C without feeling guilty? And that's a really tall order,
0:36.7	especially as someone who's trying to
0:38.4	unlearn some of that guilt reaction. And so the question would actually be, how do I choose
0:45.3	what I want to choose and withstand that guilt? And so I would look for small ways, small things that make me feel guilty that I know
0:57.6	I need to choose for myself, right? So not going to backyard barbecue and I would rather just take a nap.
1:06.4	This is your Kickass Live podcast episode number 267 with guest BK Chan.
1:13.1	This is the Your Kickass Life podcast with Andrea Owen.
1:17.8	A no BS guide to self-help and bad assery.
1:21.5	Because ladies, let's face it, life's too short for it to not kick ass.
1:27.8	And here's your host, the girl who serves it up straight with a side of crazy.
1:32.7	Andrea Owen.
1:34.7	Hey there, Ask Hakers, welcome to another episode of the podcast.
1:37.2	As always, I am so glad that you're here.
1:40.1	I have a funny story for you this morning that really just happened yesterday.
1:44.8	Okay.
1:45.7	So I, as I mentioned, last week I think I told you about the challenge that I had been handed,
1:55.8	about going to an open mic night somewhere here in the city I live in and reading my poem resignation,
2:05.3	which I'm terrified to do, but I'm going to do it anyway. You know, having been handed this
2:10.4	challenge and knowing that this is the next level for me, this is something that's really
2:15.1	scary and I'm going to do it. And I've been looking for
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