How I Deal with Jealousy + Envy (And Make It Into My Super Power)

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Do you feel ashamed about your jealousy or envy of others? While these feelings are a healthy part of life, that doesn’t make experiencing them feel any better. Today, I’m giving you my top science-backed tips to help you deal with your jealousy and envy by putting things into perspective and focusing on your own growth and goals. Jealousy and envy are not the same thing, however they are deeply related. These emotions are completely normal and they also tell us a lot of valuable information about ourselves. Learn how to leverage these feelings to live a happier, more fulfilling life. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome. This episode is sponsored by: Shopify: Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/lizm. Birch: Go to birchliving.com/lizmoody for 20% off sitewide. Masterclass: Go to masterclass.com/lizmoody for 15% off an annual membership. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 328. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Liz Moody podcast. Today, we're going to get into something that is
0:04.5	very near and dear to my heart, dealing with envy and jealousy. This is something that I struggle with a lot,
0:12.4	and so I have been very motivated to try out different science-backed strategies and find things that
0:17.0	actually work, all of which I will be sharing with you here today. I will start with.
0:22.6	There is technically a difference between jealousy and envy, which I didn't know about for years.
0:27.1	A lot of people don't know. Envy is when you want something that someone else has, a job,
0:32.4	a body, a relationship, a life. It's that paying when when you scroll past somebody's vacation photos or you hear
0:39.5	about a friend's big win and you think, why not me? Jealousy, on the other hand, happens when you're
0:45.7	scared of losing something that you already have. It's that tight feeling in your chest when your
0:51.2	partner texts somebody in a way that feels maybe like a little bit too flirty or when your best friend starts hanging out with somebody new and you feel left
0:59.4	behind. Envy is basically saying, I want that. While jealousy is saying, don't take that from me.
1:06.2	I want to make something else immensely clear. Feeling jealousy or envy does not make you a bad person. We quite literally
1:14.3	all feel these emotions at some point or another, even the people that you perceive as having it all.
1:20.0	I have talked to billionaires. I've talked to celebrities. I've talked to people who have started
1:23.8	huge businesses, people who have trust funds that let them hang out on yachts
1:28.5	and private islands and never have to worry about work. And because I am me, I am always trying
1:33.8	to ask the real questions. I'm always trying to get into deep conversations. So we talk about
1:38.2	jealousy and envy and dissatisfaction and they all have it. Every single person that I've talked to, even the people
1:45.9	that we perceive to be at the top of the pedestal, will point to at least one other person,
1:51.4	and they will say, I wish I had what they have, or my life would be so different if I only had this.
1:57.9	These are universal emotions, and this is interesting. They're actually
2:01.3	evolutionarily adaptive. Envy likely served as a catalyst for self-improvement. It helped us
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