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How Resilience Helps You Take Control of Your Emotions

How Resilience Helps You Take Control of Your Emotions

by Larae Quy | Oct 10, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness

One of my investigations in San Francisco targeted a foreign spy who hated the United States. I’ll call him Agent X. He worked for a hostile intelligence service headquartered in Asia. Silicon Valley was a hotbed of foreign spies trying to steal classified and...
How Emotional Intelligence Can Empower You To Be More Resilient

How Emotional Intelligence Can Empower You To Be More Resilient

by Larae Quy | Aug 20, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

I worked as an FBI counterintelligence agent for twenty years and loved the challenge of being a spy catcher. However, when I was offered the position of spokesperson for the FBI in Northern California, I jumped at the chance. It felt like the next step in...
6 Effective Ways To Grow As A Leader Without Getting Burned Out

6 Effective Ways To Grow As A Leader Without Getting Burned Out

by Larae Quy | Aug 1, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Psychology

Raise your hand if you’ve experienced burnout at some point. I spent the last four years of my career as the spokesperson for the FBI in Northern California. The news cycle doesn’t recognize weekends, vacations, or time at the beach. I was on-call 24/7 for the entire...
How Authentic Leaders Make A Greater Impact With Self-Awareness

How Authentic Leaders Make A Greater Impact With Self-Awareness

by Larae Quy | Jun 27, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

Before my first undercover assignment, I was sent back to the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy for a series of psychological tests to determine my level of self-awareness. I was disappointed because I expected to learn how to scissor-kick in high heels to...
Here’s How to Overcome Adversity And Come Out A Winner In Life

Here’s How to Overcome Adversity And Come Out A Winner In Life

by Larae Quy | Jun 3, 2024 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

A runt of a Shetland pony named Socks helped teach me how to overcome adversity. We lived on a remote cattle ranch in Wyoming, and my grandfather bought him for me when I was four years old. Socks had a hard and dry little heart; he only wanted to terrorize his rider....
How To Have Hard Conversations and Not Let Your Emotions Take Over

How To Have Hard Conversations and Not Let Your Emotions Take Over

by Larae Quy | May 14, 2024 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

For almost twenty-five years, I studied the habits and mindsets of foreign spies assigned to the U.S. to steal American classified and proprietary information. I needed to find ways to get these people to talk to me and understand how they thought about themselves,...
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