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Music and dance are a universal human language. I once used to dance, but that all paused semi-permanently when I became a "serious" businessman. I've been trying to get back in touch with that side of myself ever since. This week's guest is my hero in that regard.

Aliénor Salmon is a Franco-British author, speaker, and expert on happiness, education and socio-emotional development. After leaving her dream job as a happiness researcher at the UN to follow her dream of learning to dance around the world, she founded Bailando Journey to document her transformational journey and published her memoir Finding Rhythm in March 2021. Through her work, she seeks to help others incorporate happiness science into their daily life and work by exploring their values, habits and beliefs, and creating a roadmap to design a life of fulfillment, meaning and purpose.

Listen as we discuss:

• How Aliénor's study of happiness at the UN led her to chase her own. 
• What would you do if time and money were no issue?
• Her journey from New York down to Argentina to learn 18 dances in 10 months.
• Why dance is one of the greatest tools for happiness.
• How I lost a lot of the "play" in my life after joining the corporate world.
• Does she miss her job at the UN?
• Her book, Finding Rhythm, and the merging of history and biography.
• How pain and suffering spawned many dances that are now celebratory.
• Anyone can dance, believe it or not.
• Redefine your definition of happiness and success and embody it.

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“MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE THINKING TOO MUCH AND FEELING ENOUGH.”
There is a certain art that I feel had been lost over the years in this country, and you may have noticed it too. It’s the art of seduction.
Let me make one thing clear, when I say seduction I don’t mean unwanted flirting. I don’t mean trying to manipulate someone. True seduction is a lore more than that.
Seduction is about selflessly making other people feel good about themselves. Their bodies, their personalities, and everything about them.
It’s also about being aware of your own body. Owning it, being proud of it, and listening to it.
In America we spend so much time on our phones, we’ve lost that seduction between each other. This is a topic that my guest today, Chen Lizra, is an expert on.
Chen Lizra had a wildly successful Ted Talk on the power of seduction. She’s also an award winning entrepreneur, best-selling author, and a professional dancer.
She learned all about the power of seduction while living in Cuba, where she was deeply inspired by the culture of body confidence there. She was able to see how people were able to really connect with each other, lift each other up, and make a true connection with their bodies.
As a result, she has developed a powerful method of teaching body-awareness called somatic intelligence.
I was fascinated during this conversation as she explained (and demonstrated) these principles and how they impact our relationships, our opportunities, and our self-confidence.
Learn all about the power of seduction in our everyday lives, on Episode 628.
Some Questions I Ask:
In your Ted Talk you mention children are taught in America to be more closed off, is that right? (5:20)
What career were you in before this? (9:10)
How long were you an animator for? (11:12)
When did your vision come together? (21:51)
How long were you in Cuba? (25:03)
What happens when we rediscover our natural sensuality? (26:48)
How do you use seduction without crossing people’s boundaries? (35:16)
How do we know if we’ve disconnected from our body? (45:04)
What’s the difference between sexuality and sensuality? (49:42)
How do we cultivate charm? (51:44)
How do we balance masculinity and femininity? (59:38)
Are you in a relationship now? (1:06:24)
In This Episode You Will Learn:
The common misconception about seduction (7:35)
What Chen decided to do after her awakening (10:24)
How she learned about seduction in Cuba (18:12)
What Cuba has in their culture that allowed her to free herself from trauma (22:41)
When and why we started to lose the connection with our bodies (25:16)
How having elegance calms nerves (30:12)
How men can connect more without crossing boundaries (41:47)
How we can learn to listen to our bodies (45:58)
How a man be more sensual to attract a female partner (50:47)
What Chen has to say to people that feel vulnerability and sensuality is weakness (56:18)
How her arm injury was a result of not opening up emotionally (1:07:42)
Plus much, much more