The Knowing Podcast | Emotional Intelligence, Business Growth, Personal Development · Christene Marie | Entrepreneurship, Mindfulness, Mental Health

14 - Who Are You? Awakening, Responsibility, and the Light Within

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She says the health of her marriage was “predicated on the lack of my emotional health.”

1. The Knowing Podcast episode 14 centers on awakening, responsibility, and the question “Who are you?” 2. The solo host leads the episode and names her own therapeutic process as the reason the questions matter, because she is using them to know herself. 3. The episode asks what it means to do deep inner work by identifying the source, curating a foundation, and activating agency. 4. She says logic alone activates only “half of us,” and she uses the right-brain and left-brain metaphor to argue for emotional awareness. 5. She cites a Harvard Business study claiming that 95% of purchase decisions happen in the subconscious, where emotions live. 6. She describes emotions as something to bring into conscious awareness so decisions are informed by both emotion and logic. 7. She says her guest confirmed and then did not show up, which led her to turn the episode into an interactive self-inquiry session. 8. She asks listeners to pause, get comfortable, and answer the questions with her rather than treat the episode as passive listening. 9. She explains that the phrase “to be taught from within” comes from the Latin root of intuition, which she uses to frame self-knowledge. 10. She says the first reckoning with brokenness came when her brother-in-law was killed by a drunk driver heading the opposite direction on a freeway in Houston, Texas. 11. She says her niece was three weeks old at the time and that her sister and niece moved in with her and her husband for about two and a half years. 12. She says that after the death, she addressed the question of who God is on a logical level but not on an emotional level. 13. She says that grief went unexpressed for six years because she gave her sister permission to grieve but not herself. 14. She describes unprocessed experiences and emotions as “bricks” in a wall that people build over childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. 15. She gives an airplane example from 2022, saying she rushed while boarding and then realized she did not feel as worthy of time and respect as everyone else. 16. She says the narrative behind that reaction was a worthiness complex, and she names Brene Brown’s “Daring Greatly” as a major influence on her therapy. 17. The tone is intimate, confessional, and instructional, with long monologue stretches and direct second-person prompts. 18. The format mixes memoir, journaling prompts, and a spoken framework for self-reflection rather than a conventional interview. 19. People interested in emotional intelligence, grief, and self-examination would likely value it. 20. People wanting a tightly edited guest interview or a short business topic would probably skip it.

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A reflective first solo episode about who is really driving.

This first solo episode asks who is really in the driver's seat: emotion, logic, or the self. It moves through grief, body shame, and the speaker's effort to listen inwardly, holding a calm, reflective tone while making the case that both emotion and logic have a place.

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For the moment when logic is speaking louder than you are.

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