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Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser

Resilience Turns Us Into Our Own Salvation Army with Carolyn Colleen

Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser

Dr. Ron Kaiser

Rejuvenate, Age, Aging, Fitness & Nutrition, Mental, Self-help, Gym, Doctor, Health, Fitness, Emotional Health

5.0 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Early experiences in life leave a mark on us, whether they are harmful or not, and while those marks will be a part of ourselves, they don't necessarily define who we are and who we will become. We can't handle our emotional response to abuse or aggression, but what we can do is to use that emotion in our favor, harness that emotion, and turn it into a positive outcome for our lives. 


Today, I chat with the inspiring Carolyn Colleen; she is a renowned keynote speaker, author, corporate leader, business strategist, and Ph.D. candidate for Organizational Development and Behavior. After escaping from an abusive relationship, Caroline found herself at a Salvation Army line, seeking shelter with her baby in her arms, two boxes, and a toddler bed. Fearful for her life, she realized that that wasn't her plan, and a social worker suggested her to take it day by day. 


But for Caroline, a day looked like an eternity; she decided to focus on shorter, achievable goals, splitting her day into 5-minute fragments. And that's how her FIERCE method was born, overcoming adversity 5 minutes at a time. 


In this episode, Carolyn shares her challenging and inspiring story about how she used fear and uncertainty in her family's favor. We talked about how she managed to turn her traumas into a successful business while helping other women to overcome their traumas. We also spoke about resilience and whether it's something we are born with or something we can train and acquire with time and practice.


Tune in to Episode 76 of Rejuvenaging, and listen to what Carolyn has to say about our emotions and what we can do with them. 


Some Questions I Ask:

  • With your multiple activities, aside from helping people, how do you organize yourself? (3:35)
  • What is the FIERCE method? (10:44)
  • How hard is it to change for somebody who had to deal with the extremes you have and remain in a particular pattern that it's not serving them? (15:24)
  • Is resilience something that's taught? Are some people more resilient than others? Is there something that we can do to become more resilient? (21:02)


In This Episode, You Will Learn:

  • Carolyn's life journey (5:28)
  • Benefits of not being afraid of doing the work (9:14)
  • The realization that led to the creation of the FIERCE Method (12:06)
  • We decide what to do with our emotions (16:04)


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0:00.0

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0:20.0

Welcome to Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kyser. This is the podcast designed to help you lead

0:25.6

your life enthusiastically today, tomorrow and every other day. I'm your host, Ron Kyser. I'm a

0:31.9

positive health psychologist and also a keynote TEDx speaker and author of the award winning

0:38.8

and bestselling book Rejuvenaging the Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm.

0:44.4

My website is the Mental Health Gym. It's your source of all sorts of information related to wellness,

0:50.3

positive psychology, my own spin on it, which I call goal achieving, psychology, Rejuvenaging,

0:56.7

and lots of other wellness related things. It's also the place to suggest upcoming guests

1:04.0

for this podcast. As listeners know, our podcast for the most part is developed with an eye in mind

1:12.5

of having guests who are very not only informative and good at presenting, but also lead their

1:20.4

own lives with enthusiasm and have unique ways of helping us to lead our lives enthusiastically

1:27.0

and become the best version of ourselves. In that regard, I'm really, really happy that today's

1:34.2

guest has been able to connect with us. I've been trying to get Carolyn Colleen to be a guest

1:41.6

of our show for a while. She's a very busy person. She's the renowned keynote speaker, author,

1:48.0

corporate leader, business strategist, and she also is a PhD candidate, proud mother of three,

1:55.7

and she uses her own life experiences as a building blocks to help others overcome adversity

2:04.1

and to live their lives in a positive way. Personal adversity has fueled her own growth

2:11.4

and through her fierce method, which may be more scary than it sounds, but through her fierce method,

2:18.8

she helps people achieve goals that have alluded them for long periods of time. Many of us have

2:26.4

things like writing books or blogs or losing weight or becoming more mentally and physically

2:32.8

healthy. The fierce method is a way of doing that and I'm sure we'll be interested here.

2:38.8

Carolyn's goals are always clear, namely personal growth. While her emphasis has been on

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