💡 Coaching Insights: What Envy Can Teach Us About Ourselves

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In this powerful and honest episode, Lisa shares a candid conversation that took place during a book club she hosted for fellow coaches. When one respected peer opened up about feeling jealous after learning he had written a book—something he had long aspired to do—it sparked a meaningful dialogue about comparison, creativity, and energetic awareness.

Together, they explore:

• How jealousy can be a mirror for what we long to express
• The transformational shift from FOMO to curiosity
• What the Jungian shadow reveals about the parts of ourselves we’ve hidden
• Why inspiration often hides in the places we resist most

Whether you’re navigating your own creative dreams or noticing your reactions to someone else’s success, this episode is a reminder that our emotions can be teachers—and that the space between comparison and curiosity is rich with possibility.

🎧 Listen now and reflect on what your own moments of envy might be trying to show you.

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Episode Transcript

Guest (00:00):
I find Lisa's energy and Lisa just generally very
inspiring and I've also movedfrom FOMO Lisa to curiosity as
well Thank you for that and it'saspirational for me as well,
and I think I've moved from kindof being envious of the fact

(00:23):
that you've done something thatI've wanted to do for a long
time to curiosity and toinspiration.
So, yeah, I'm in a space ofcuriosity right now.
So very happy to be here,feeling very privileged to be
someone you consider that you'dwant to spend this time with and
invite.
So thank you for having me here.

Lisa (00:41):
Oh, absolutely Usually, when jealousy or FOMO or that
kind of feeling comes up, it'susually because you see yourself
, you see possibility in thatand if we respond in a low grade
energy frequency, we're goingto be narrowly focused.
And then just you know, in that, you know you're going to stay
in that judgy place and you knowit's just easier, just to you

(01:03):
know, put someone down than toactually go.
No, actually the reason why Ifeel this way is because I see
myself in that and I thinkthat's what you're referring to
a little bit right, is that?
You know we can learn so muchfrom everybody, right?
And so when you don't likesomebody almost more than when
you do like somebody orsomething that's probably the

(01:24):
place that you feel is so farfrom you or from being
attainable.
So then your brain creates allthis oh yeah, well, you know,
yeah, it fills in that spaceliterally.

Guest (01:40):
Yeah, for me that's the Jungian shadow, and the shadow
is what you said, is that whichwe least like in somebody is
just a projection of the stuffwe don't know about or we don't
want to see in ourselves.
But also, within that darknessof that repressed stuff, is also
the gold, is also the deniedaspects of ourselves.

(02:04):
The creative artist, forinstance and I think that's why
I enjoy being around you so muchis because you are a creative
artist, whether you've got thetitle coach or you're teaching
you embody things that I think Iburied within myself, that I'm
going to discover, that areunique to me.

(02:25):
Not copying you, but findingwhat does my creative artist
look like, and that's one of thereasons I'm here as well.
So thank you for that.