My guest today, Renee Jain, started into her career as a tech entrepreneur who secretly suffered with her own sometimes dizzying and even paralyzing anxiety, rising to the level of straight up panic.
One day, a panic attack led her to completely step back and re examine her life and to seek help and begin to acquire the skills and understanding to live with more ease.
It was transformative for her, but along the way, something she never expected began to happen.
She began wondering why every child doesn't learn those same skills early in life, so that they can live with more ease and joy.
Because she knew that if she had learned it decades earlier, her life would have been profoundly better solving that problem.
It kind of became her driving cause.
Renee earned a master's in positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and founded her own edtech company, Gozen, to help a new generation of kids and parents and therapists.
Shes a recognized pioneer in marrying technology and child psychology in this really unique approach that nurtures the hearts and minds of kids.
And through her writing, product invention, masterclasses, and childrens advocacy, she works to build the emotional intelligence of kids by creating media and experiences that speak to them in a way they not only understand, but also really love and want to engage with.
Renee is also the co author of New York Times bestselling book, superpowered, which is this really cool, groundbreaking book that every parent needs, not just for their kids, but for themselves too.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
I love what you have been up to.
Thank you.
And what you're bringing to the world on so many different levels, you know, in and as a parent, I love it as a former kid and arguably maybe not former anymore, still persistently never having quite matured.
And as a parent, the value is just extraordinary to me.
I know that you have described yourself as a kid, as being an anxious kid.
Tell me more about that.
I'm curious how that showed up in your life when you were young.
In every way possible.