Evolve Ventures
Co-hosts, Emilia Smith and Bianca Thomas are taking state-of-the-art research, experience, and data-backed methodologies to evolve the old version of themselves leveraging their obsessions into Evolve Ventures, a podcast designed to accelerate evolution, excellence, and extraordinary. Evolve Ventures is designed to radically equip you for today’s experiences, and tomorrow’s challenges, shifting you into unlimited potential. Topics will dive into the keys of leadership, elite brain performance, the not-so-scary parts of tech, the tools to navigate mental health, strategies for optimal living, relationships, and of course, personal development without the fluff. You can look forward to deeper stories, insights, and tactical takeaways to leverage and apply in your everyday life. Connect with the Evolve Ventures team on Instagram: @EvolveVentures @EvolvewithEmilia @EvolvewithBianca | Like the Evolve Ventures Facebook Page to connect with the global community: https://tinyurl.com/evolveventures
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#438 | Understanding Trauma Responses You Mistake for Personality
Are you living as your true self, or have you mistaken your trauma for your personality? In this episode, we reveal how hidden wounds quietly shape the way you think, feel, and act, and why so many of us confuse survival responses for who we really are. Through raw stories, powerful insights, and simple but eye-opening truths, we uncover the difference between traits that define you and patterns that hold you back. This is the conversation that could change how you see yourself and your future forever.
Here are the related episodes, each one builds on today’s conversation:
#347 | Why You Need Self-Accountability - https://apple.co/3XVnJ8p
#399 | Why You Still Struggle to Feel Good Enough - https://apple.co/46EVpe9
Evolve Together Experiences:
🤝 Out of the Mud (OOTM) - “The Best Habits for Being More Consistent” - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IykObX8eR7ixJaQ-qqZogw#/registration
📽️ Insightful films, meaningful growth. Join our “Evolve Movie Club” - https://forms.gle/bBZUbFEeD2ijypCT7
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Show notes:
(3:30) Personality Vs. Trauma response
(8:58) How rejection seeds core beliefs
(15:59) Defining personality together
(21:14) Mistaking trauma for personality
(23:46) Charlie highlights the invaluable role of the Evolve community support system in her journey toward self-discovery.
(27:37) PTSD Vs. Post-traumatic growth
(29:34) Fight, flight, freeze, fawn explained
(34:31) People pleasing isn’t who you are
(43:04) Why behaviors reveal hidden trauma
(46:40) Outro
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(Stay tuned for this coming Monday’s episode!)
