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What happens when we stop rescuing and start empowering?In this insightful conversation, I sit down with Coach Monique to explore the powerful intersection of emotional intelligence, brain science, leadership, parenting, and personal transformation.I share my journey from more than three decades in Montessori education and school leadership to transformational leadership and coaching. Coach Monique shares her remarkable path from navigating undiagnosed learning disabilities to becoming a coach who helps individuals, families, executives, and organizations create sustainable change through brain science and emotional intelligence.Together, we examine some of the challenges facing today’s young adults—particularly Gen Z—including the impact of technology, the pandemic, over-rescuing parenting, and reduced opportunities to develop resilience and self-regulation. What many employers are experiencing as a "soft skills" gap may actually be an emotional intelligence and developmental gap.The conversation also explores Coach Monique’s work with executives, families, nonprofits, and young adults, including her MELD program for executive women, support for young adults navigating the "failure to launch" stage, and EQYs, an internationally accredited online learning platform focused on the skills young people need to thrive in the workplace and in life.Shawn and Monique also discuss how transformational tools such as Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) can be integrated into a larger coaching process—not simply to create an immediate breakthrough, but to support lasting, sustainable change.This conversation invites us to reconsider what it means to help someone succeed. Are we rescuing, or are we building resilience? Are we correcting behavior, or developing the emotional intelligence underneath it?If you are a parent, educator, coach, leader, or someone committed to becoming more emotionally intelligent, this episode offers practical insights and thought-provoking perspectives for navigating a world that is changing faster than ever.Special Offer: Use code PLT for 15% off any EQYs course.Where to find Coach Monique and her work: Coaching: Coach Monique WebsiteOnline Courses: EQ Wize WebsiteSocials:InstagramFacebookListeners can visit  www.coachmonique.com/contact and submit a contact form mentioning Parenting Leading & Teaching for one complimentary coaching session (Nine sessions in a package for the price of eight).LinkedInCoach Monique FacebookCoach Monique Instagram Special Offers: https://courses.eqwize.com/collections : Your listeners can use code PLT at checkout for 15% off any course.