Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency in space to simplify and

declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

Hello, friends.

I think all of us can stand to level up our human skills.

And there's no better time to do this than now in this era of technology where we're both weirdly hyper-connected

and disconnected. My guest, Dr. Jenny Wu, is an emotional intelligence researcher and mom

of three, and her work involves creating actionable tools to help people become happier,

calmer, and wiser. I love this conversation I'm about to share.

It is heart-centered. We talk big picture and in a compassionate way about figuring out how to

get in touch with those feelings, as well as talking about lots of practical tactics,

whether it's in the realm of the workplace or your family or connecting internally. It's such a great conversation. I think you're

going to come away with so much. Let's get right into it. Welcome, Dr. Jenny Wu. I am so delighted

to have you here. Hello. Well, hello, Christine. I'm so

excited to talk to you today. Yes. So I have been talking about human skills ad nauseum. So I was so

excited when we connected because I feel like this is a conversation that everybody needs to listen to.

And so I wanted to start with compassion. That's usually where I go, where I want to start. And so let me just give a little wind up. I will have

talked about you a bunch of the intro already. But in your various professional roles, you have

worked with adults across many ages from 20 to 60,

and one of the things you write on your site is,

I noticed people were successful and happy when they were in tune with their emotions and those of others.

These individuals exalted influence, resilience, and purpose. They persisted

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