Terri Cole is a New York-based, licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert and founder of Real Love Revolution. Boundary Bootcamp, and the co-founder of Crushing Codependency, her female empowerment courses reach women in over 90 countries.
Prior to her current incarnation as a love, and boundaries expert, Terri was a bi-coastal talent agent negotiating endorsement contracts for supermodels and celebrities.
Her eventual disenchantment with the world of entertainment led her to change careers in her 30’s to become a psychotherapist and empowerment expert. She has since made it her mission to teach as many women as possible to establish and maintain effective boundaries with ease and create and sustain healthy, vibrant relationships. For the past two decades, Terri has worked with some of the world’s most well-known personalities from international pop stars, athletes, Broadway performers, and TV personalities to thought-leaders and Fortune 500 CEOs. She empowers over 250,000 people weekly through her published articles and blog posts, illuminating videos, therapeutic meditations, online courses, and her popular podcast, The Terri Cole Show.
Terri’s approach combines the best of practical psychology and, eastern mindfulness practices. She has a gift for making complex psychological concepts accessible, and then actionable so that clients and students achieve sustainable change i.e. true transformation.
She has been featured as an expert therapist and master life coach on A&E’s Monster In-Laws, TED X, The Lisa Oz Show, Real Housewives and had a weekly radio show on Hay House Radio. Plus, a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, Positively Positive, The Daily Love, Well+Good, and has been featured in Italian Elle, Forbes, Origin, Vogue, Self and was honored to grace the cover of Inspired Coach magazine.
In this episode we talk about:
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The ultimatum her therapist in college gave her.
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How a meeting changed her life in the first 5 minutes she was there.
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How a snowstorm that shut down college and having no where to keep going and running doing started to make her feel her feelings.
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How we deny our feelings
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How she ended up working at a major modeling agency as I high powered talent agent.
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How she ended up in grad school to be a psychotherapist
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How her wondering if she would be okay being broke pushed her to make the choices she wanted to make.
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Starting to work with clients in the entertainment industry right after graduation and at one time having nearly the entire cast of the Broadway show Mama Mia as clients the same time.
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The misconceptions of fame and how it has so many psychological implications.
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Seeing that many of her clients were high functioning women who were getting it all done – at the expense of themselves.
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How her client work for 25 years led her to be so passionate about boundaries and writing her first book on them
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Learning boundaries being the same as learning a new language. You don’t just know it overnight and speak it fluently.
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How we set the people we love up to fail.
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What boundaries really are and how they build trust.
Find more from Terri at https://www.terricole.com and @terricole and order her book at Boundarybossbook.com
Get the free guide on codependency and boundaries she mentioned at Boundaryboss.me/claimit
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