What is a Good Life? #79 - Seeking Truth & Reality with Jen Cohen

On the 79th episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Jen Cohen. Jen is a Co-Founder and Director of Seven Stones Leadership, a leadership journeys company, and the Director of Coaching Education for Mobius Executive Leadership, a global boutique consulting firm serving Fortune 500 companies. She is the co-author, with Gina LaRoche, of The 7 Laws of Enough, and the author of the chapter “From Surviving to Thriving” in the book Being Human at Work, edited by Richard Strozzi Heckler.

Her coaching and training are distinguished by her studies in several communication technologies, along with quantum physics, ontology, neuroscience, psychology, trauma—both individual and collective—somatics, and systems thinking. Jen is a Master Certified Somatic Coach with the Strozzi Institute and holds a master’s degree in Applied Psychology with an emphasis on systems theory.

In this captivating conversation, Jen shares with us her lifelong questioning of what is truth and what is reality. She speaks of her journey from experiencing trauma in her childhood, to continually seeking a sense of truth, and the emergence of her path and experiences with bodywork and healing. We explore the process of transmutation and extracting wisdom from our experiences, the sense of something bigger being at play that is moving us, the process of how purpose synchronistically arises, and living a life that ultimately brings her closer and closer into contact with reality.

Whatever you may be going through in life, this conversation will provide you with considerable inspiration as to what can become of our lives if we do not look away from reality but walk towards it. While Jen shares her considerable wisdom and insights from her own examined life of inquiry, giving us all much to contemplate.

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Seven Stones Leadership website: https://www.sevenstonesleadership.com/

Jen's book: https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Enough-Cultivating-Sustainable-Abundance/dp/1941529909
Jen's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifercohen7s/

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00:00 Introduction
03:45 What is the truth? What is reality?

10:30 We are in relationship with everything

13:30 Extracting wisdom from experiences

19:35 Finding truth and reality through the body

27:45 The wisdom of the body

30:45 Trauma of the past becoming present and future

33:45 The desire to seek truth through trauma

36:15 The feeling that something bigger is happening

39:15 Exploring how purpose arises

46:15 Finding the path as a healer

53:35 What is a good life for Jen?