Getting to Places Where Adversity Can't Reach with Michelle Kuei
Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser
Dr. Ron Kaiser
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🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Having a happy, meaningful life is what all of us are after, but still, it is something not everyone seems to attain. We might have a successful professional or academic life, yet happiness could be elusive to us. It could be because we are doing what is expected from us - whether it would be fulfilling our parents, siblings, or partner's expectations - and ignoring our needs and wants. It is like wearing the shoes they expect us to wear. The first step towards our happiness is asking every morning when getting out of bed, whose shoes I'll wear today?
Visiting us today is the inspiring Michelle Kuei, Confidence Mindset Coach, Author, Motivational Speaker, Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher, and Podcast Host. She is the Founder of Elevate Life Coaching, a Certified Professional Coach, and Certified Energy Leadership Master Practitioner.
Michelle was involved in a car accident at age 11, that ended up with her walking with crutches since then. She moved from Taiwan to the US with her parents when she was 15 and had a brilliant academic path through American education, getting her Doctor in Pharmacy diploma from St. John's University.
In this episode, we talked about Michelle's experiences that led her to become a motivational and life coach. She also shared her adventure at Machu Pichu in Peru, which made her realize she can inspire people to become their best. She described her coaching style and what makes her unique, and much more.
Tune in to Episode 78 of Rejuvenaging, and listen to Michelle's inspiring life story about superation and overcoming adversity.
Some Questions I Ask:
- Why don't you tell us a bit of the journey that made you who you are? (5:21)
- Maybe you can share with the audience how far you actually got in school. What have you accomplished? (9:59)
- Was there a particular event or something that changed the trajectory of your life positively? (15:15)
- There is a video of you using two crutches in a unique place that most people would have difficulty navigating. Can you tell us a bit of that? (19:08)
- Why did you decide to share what you've learned and become a coach and help others? (22:56)
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- How culture shapes the way we see disability (8:50)
- The effects of a culture based on first impressions (13:01)
- The shoe box process. Whose shoes are you wearing? (15:26)
- Wishing to participate in people's conversations (20:32)
- Sharing our stories and being vulnerable about them can be impactful (23:40)
- You're never too old to start anything. You start wherever you are now (28:50)
Resources:
- Elevate Life Coaching website
Connect with Michelle:
Useful Rejuvenaging Resources:
- Website: https://www.thementalhealthgym.com/
- Book: Dr. Ron Kaiser -Rejuvenaging: The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm
- Email: ron.kaiser@thementalhealthgym.com
- TEDx Talk: Aging Enthusiastically to Make the World a Better Place
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rejuvenating with Dr. Ron Kaiser. This is the podcast designed to help |
| 0:24.5 | you live your life enthusiastically today, tomorrow, and every other day of your life. I am your |
| 0:31.6 | host, Ron Kaiser. I'm a positive health psychologist, also a keynote and TEDx speaker and author of |
| 0:38.6 | the award winning and bestselling book Rejuvenaging the Art and Science of Growing Older with |
| 0:45.4 | Enthusiasm. My website is the Mental Health Gym. It is your source of information for all things |
| 0:53.0 | related to wellness, Rejuvenaging, positive psychology. My own spin on it, which I call |
| 0:59.1 | goal achieving psychology. And it's also a place to recommend other guests for this podcast. |
| 1:06.7 | As you know, our podcasts tend to feature very interesting people who leave their own lives |
| 1:14.1 | enthusiastically and have different ways of helping us to become better versions of ourselves |
| 1:22.8 | through enthusiasm and through their own special attributes. And today I am really happy to welcome |
| 1:31.6 | Michelle Kui. Michelle is a really special person. She's a certified confidence and leadership mindset |
| 1:39.8 | coach who helps people to upgrade from having internal negatives to fearlessly unleashing their |
| 1:49.9 | positive thinking and potential. Michelle is the founder and owner of her own company, |
| 1:57.1 | which she calls Elevate Life Coaching. She is an author. She has written a book called Perfectly |
| 2:06.6 | Normal and in it describes an immigrant story of making it in America. It's an inspirational |
| 2:14.3 | journey of overcoming adversity after an automobile accident changed her life's trajectory at a |
| 2:22.6 | really young age. Michelle was born in Taiwan and grew up in New York. Today lives in California, |
| 2:31.7 | but her coaching program is available to you wherever you may be living. I will hear more about |
| 2:39.4 | it as we go through it. The biggest challenge of Michelle's life, which really began her transformation |
| 2:46.7 | and her journey was as a result of a car accident at age 11. It's hard to think of something like |
| 2:55.0 | that as being transformative, but apparently it really was. And living with the disability had made |
| 3:03.1 | her what she said calls play small for much of her life. The idea of really loving and appreciating |
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