{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Route to Success","title":"S02E03 What Do You Do When Life Tells You to Stop? | Sarah Jakle","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2251,"description":"\nSarah Jackal, founder of the national nonprofit, Democrashe, shares how being told she'd never work again after a chronic illness diagnosis led her to study brain science and resilience, eventually building tools like the \"inner best friend\" and \"inner champion.\" She discusses how these tools carried her into national political leadership roles and now power her program, which operates in 42 states equipping high school girls with resilience skills and civic engagement training.\nLink to Democrashe’s website: https://www.democrashe.org/ \n\nShow Notes:\n00:00 - Introduction to the episode's theme: resilience, identity, and turning adversity into impact\n00:15 - Guest intro: Sarah Jackal's 2014 chronic illness diagnosis and founding of Democrashe, active in 42 states\n01:06 - Sarah Jackal welcomed to the show\n01:25 - Sarah recounts the moment she was told she'd never work again as a social worker\n02:19 - Living on the couch for two and a half years and realizing she could control how she showed up\n02:54 - Turning to studying the brain and resiliency during her recovery\n03:47 - Question: what skills and brain rewiring emerged from that period\n04:05 - Explaining the prefrontal cortex vs. the amygdala and fight/flight/freeze responses\n05:04 - How the amygdala responds to somatic, grounding language rather than logic\n05:37 - Studying Dr. Kristin Neff's self-compassion work and acceptance commitment therapy\n05:49 - The \"grounding with mother earth\" technique explained\n06:14 - Introducing the \"inner best friend\" and \"inner champion\" tools\n06:39 - Barack Obama and her dog Max as her original inner best friends\n07:37 - Host connects the concept to her own meditation and gardening routine as grounding practices\n08:22 - Host shares her struggle with a harsh inner critic\n09:04 - Sarah explains why the inner critic is trying to help, and the \"Thank You Brain\" technique\n10:16 - More on choosing figures for your inner best friend (Michelle Obama, Wonder Woman, Taylor Swift)\n11:12 -...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/S-5Z5ofhheVkxgFI1OjKUs4327xfRBjTfDKHtXDGFv4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84YWUx/MDhkOWYyYWI0ZjM5/ZjUyYzY0MTUwZjM1/ZjhjNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}