{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"What If Thinking About Death Is the Key to Living Your Best Life With Karen Salmansohn","description":"What if the thing we spend our lives avoiding\u2014death\u2014could actually become one of the most powerful tools for creating a more meaningful life? In this episode of The Story Engine Podcast, I sit down with behavioral change expert and bestselling author Karen Salmansohn to explore why so many ambitious, high-achieving people resist self-help, stay trapped in \u201cbeast mode,\u201d and keep telling themselves they\u2019ll finally live the life they want someday. Karen shares her philosophy of moving from the \u201cden of pleasure\u201d into the \u201claboratory of growth,\u201d embracing emotional diversity, and focusing less on success, money, and productivity and more on becoming the person you actually want to be. We also go deep into Karen\u2019s personal story. After her father\u2019s death forced her to confront how much of her own life she had been postponing, she wrote his eulogy\u2014and then wrote one for herself. That exercise became a blueprint for the life she wanted to live. We explore how mortality awareness can create urgency, how identity-based habits can change behavior, why your core values can become the \u201cpuppet master\u201d of your habits, and how a single message her father left behind\u2014\u201cEverything that is not given is lost\u201d\u2014continues to shape the work she does today. This is a conversation about death, but ultimately, it\u2019s about learning how to live with more courage, intention, meaning, and purpose. ","author_name":"The Story Engine Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/podcast.thestoryengine.co\/","html":"