In episode nine of building emotional firewalls, Nadja guides you through a stress relief exercise to help you feel safe during a moment of overwhelm.In the previous episode, Nadja spoke extensively about the importance of distinguishing false and real sense of stress. The mind can send your body into a roller coaster of emotions, which will make things seem much worse than they actually are. This type of visualization can help your brain signal to your body's nervous system a sense of safety and diffuse your emotional response in the moment of stress.Make sure you follow our podcast, leave a review, so other women with ambition can feel inspired to carve their own path in life. And it will put a smile in my heart.If you would like to learn more about Nadja's mission in building emotional firewalls, check out her website at https://nadjaelfertasi.com. Disclaimer: Nadja is not a licensed healthcare professional or medical doctor. Please note that this exercise is not applicable whether you suffer any trauma, medical condition or being surveyed by a medical professional. Please consult your medical professional before doing any type of online visualization exercise. 

In episode eight of building emotional firewalls, Nadja dives deeper into stress management.Achieving work-life balance continues to be a long-standing debate and struggle for many. According to the World Economic Forum, one in four women are considering downshifting their career or leaving the workforce entirely, as the stress of managing home life and dealing with the depleting demands at work became simply unbearable. Hence, continue to talk about work-life balance sounds like a utopian concept for many women.Stress is a phenomenon which keeps many people awake at night, anxious during the day, or feeling drained and fatigued. Stress in itself is not a good or bad thing, but how we perceive and manage stress is what will help us manage it.Lean back, tune in and get ready to feel inspired, so you can embrace the woman with ambition you are!Mentioned resources:Lisa Feldman Barrett:  Everything you need to know about how to manage your emotions to increase your energy.The Psychology and Theory Behind Flow: Everything you need to know about focus. Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner, about discovering how our thought process and the thinking is correlated with stress management. Make sure you follow our podcast, leave a review, so other women with ambition can feel inspired to carve their own path in life. And it will put a smile in my heart.If you would like to learn more about Nadja's mission in building emotional firewalls, check out her website at https://nadjaelfertasi.com. 

In episode seven of building emotional firewalls, Nadja walks you through a step-by-step approach on how to navigate imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is a phenomenon many people, and especially women, struggle with. Feeling like a fraud or an imposter because you lack the necessary skill set or competencies. Feeling like you are not enough when you compare yourself with someone else or other people who seemingly have it all.Imposter syndrome can keep you below your potential. Nadja struggled with imposter syndrome for many years. In this episode, she shares her stories and strategies on how she learned to embrace it, and thrive despite still feeling like a fraud at times.Through the perceptual position technique, you learn to step outside your map of the world and understand your specific situations without your emotional clutter. This will help you cultivate new perspectives and make different choices which are more empowering in all areas of your life. Lean back, tune in and get ready to feel inspired, so you can embrace the woman with ambition you are!Make sure you follow our podcast, leave a review, so other women with ambition can feel inspired to carve their own path in life.If you would like to learn more about Nadja's mission in building emotional firewalls, check out her website at https://nadjaelfertasi.com. 

In episode four of building emotional firewalls, Nadja dives deep into the topic of imposter syndrome.Imposter syndrome is a phenomenon many people, and especially women, struggle with. Feeling like a fraud or an imposter because you lack the necessary skill set or competencies. Feeling like you are not enough when you compare yourself with someone else or other people who seemingly have it all. Imposter syndrome can keep you below your potential. Nadja struggled with imposter syndrome for many years. In this episode, she shares her stories and strategies on how she learned to embrace it, and thrive despite still feeling like a fraud at times.Lean back, tune in and get ready to feel inspired, so you can embrace the woman with ambition you are!References: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective PeopleMake sure you follow our podcast, leave a review, so other women with ambition can feel inspired to carve their own path in life.If you would like to learn more about Nadja's mission in building emotional firewalls, check out her website at https://nadjaelfertasi.com. 

In episode five of building emotional firewalls, Nadja helps you visualize self-love during challenging times.It is easy to love ourselves when we feel on top of the world. But how do we actually feel self-love when we feel like a failure, or when we feel rejected, or when we simply do not feel like we are enough?In this episode, Nadja guides you through a visualization exercise, so you can learn to feel self-love no matter the external conditions you are facing. Make sure you follow our podcast, leave a review, so other women with ambition can feel inspired to carve their own path in life.If you would like to learn more about Nadja's mission in building emotional firewalls, check out her website at https://nadjaelfertasi.com. 

In episode four of building emotional firewalls, Nadja dives deep into the topic of self-love. Often we speak about self-love without truly understanding how to love ourselves when we face rejections, hurt or pain. The concept of love in itself means different things to different people, depending on what map of the world we grew up in. Understanding how love was modelled to us during our formative years, the beliefs we have developed as a result, and learning new strategies to love ourselves and others in healthy ways is at the heart of this episode. You can't build emotional firewalls, if you don't feel a healthy dose of self-love for yourself, as that is your fuel for fire. References: The Five Love Languages Make sure you follow our podcast, leave a review, so other women with ambition can feel inspired to carve their own path in life. If you would like to learn more about Nadja's mission in building emotional firewalls, check out her website at https://nadjaelfertasi.com. 

In this special episode, Nadja will guide you through a visualization exercise where she helps you see your future self embracing their self-worth. We are all familiar with visualization, as we constantly worry about things that can go wrong. Our worst-case scenarios. What if we use our imagination as well for what can go right? Focusing on what we do want in our lives, and how do we want to feel? It is only normal to feel discomfort when we break out of habitual ways of thinking and seeing ourselves. Because it feels unfamiliar to our body and there are no images in our mind to reflect the future version of ourselves. Everything is created twice, first in our minds and then in reality, as Robin Sharma says. So let's start creating images where you can fully embrace your self-worth. Make sure to follow us and leave a review so that other women with ambition can feel inspired to carve their own path out in life. If you want to learn more about Nadja, make sure you follow her on her social media handles or visit her website at https://nadjaelfertasi.com. 

In this second episode, Nadja dives deeper into the topic of self-worth. She shares her own stories and science on how to cultivate worthiness within ourselves. She explains why coming from a place of wounds instead of worth can keep you below your potential in life. In this episode, Nadja shares her strategies for radically accepting your self-worth through real-life examples. Lean back, tune in and get ready to be inspired to become the woman with ambition you were born to be!Make sure you subscribe to our podcast, leave a review and share with other women you believe will be inspired by this episode. Follow Nadja's writings and inspiration at https://nadjaelfertasi.com and join her community of women who carve their own path in life. 

What are emotional firewalls and how can we build these to help us thrive and not just to survive in life?Tune in on the first episode as Nadja talks about some of her own fears in being a woman with ambition and how building emotional firewalls helps her overcome these. She also shares her mission and what she will talk about during the Emotional Firewalls podcast.Make sure you hit that subscription button and don't miss out on the next episodes!To learn more about Nadja, check out her website at https://nadjaelfertasi.com.