Mel Yu - The Mindset Building Multiple Businesses, Mental Health and Suicide Support

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ABOUT THE EPISODE
How do you rebuild your life, and a business, after a loss that splits it in two? I sat down with brand builder and business coach Mel Yu, a former provisional psychologist who lost her partner to suicide at 23 and fell into an events job that became her career.

Mel talks about growing up Chinese Australian in Patterson Lakes, feeling not white enough and not Asian enough. She explains the gap between 'I am depressed' and 'I am someone going through depression', the Brené Brown line that takes the heat out of a fight, and why you can love someone but you can't save them.

She also shares how she lost $183,000 in her first year running Ego Expo, why sales comes down to trust and value, and what she told me when I admitted my own fear of not being enough.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Why being yourself wins
01:37 From psychologist to event founder
07:01 Not white enough, not Asian enough
17:35 Healing after losing her partner
19:11 You can love someone but not save them
22:44 Helping someone in their darkest hour
28:54 My 2019 breakup spiral
30:58 Why the words 'I am' matter
35:23 What post-traumatic growth means
40:39 Why strangers DM her in a crisis
43:22 Inside Out, empathy and sympathy
48:30 A Brené Brown trick for hard talks
51:12 Inside Mel's businesses
1:04:11 From door knocking to a $183,000 loss
1:12:07 Are you enough without the wins?
1:14:11 Kindest thing, routines and books
1:17:24 Retiring mum after losing dad

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Each week I explore the pillars of a full life - health, wealth & wisdom - through interviews with the world's leading experts, thinkers and operators who embody one or more of these pillars on a world-class level. Hosted by Adam Metwally.