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Want To Stay Cool Under Pressure? 4 Ways You CTo Be Mentally Tough

I’m not a natural athlete. This sad fact became evident at a very inconvenient time — my first day of new agent training at the FBI…

Mar 8

Want To Stay Cool Under Pressure? 4 Ways You CTo Be Mentally Tough

Mar 8

Simple Reasons The Pursuit of Happiness Can Make Us Miserable

America’s infatuation with happiness goes back to our founding fathers and the U.S. Constitution, in which we are promised “life, liberty…

Jan 21

Simple Reasons The Pursuit of Happiness Can Make Us Miserable

Jan 21

3 Tips To Increase Your Ability To Become More Resilient

Resilience is frequently defined as our ability to bounce back from hardship like rubber bands that pop back to our original shape after…

Jan 8

3 Tips To Increase Your Ability To Become More Resilient

Jan 8

How Trauma Really Can Help Us Grow Into Stronger People

Trauma is experienced in many different ways. Soldiers can experience it on the battlefield, healthcare workers in hospitals and emergency…

Dec 7, 2024

How Trauma Really Can Help Us Grow Into Stronger People

Dec 7, 2024

How Resilience Helps You Take Control of Your Emotions

One of my investigations in San Francisco targeted a foreign spy who hated the United States. I’ll call him Agent X. He worked for a…

Oct 10, 2024

How Resilience Helps You Take Control of Your Emotions

Oct 10, 2024

How Emotional Intelligence Can Empower You To Be More Resilient

I worked as an FBI counterintelligence agent for twenty years and loved the challenge of being a spy catcher. However, when I was offered…

Aug 20, 2024

How Emotional Intelligence Can Empower You To Be More Resilient

Aug 20, 2024

6 Effective Ways To Grow As A Leader Without Getting Burned Out

Raise your hand if you’ve experienced burnout at some point. I spent the last four years of my career as the spokesperson for the FBI in…

Aug 1, 2024

6 Effective Ways To Grow As A Leader Without Getting Burned Out

Aug 1, 2024

How Authentic Leaders Make A Greater Impact With Self-Awareness

Before my first undercover assignment, I was sent back to the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy for a series of psychological…

Jun 27, 2024

How Authentic Leaders Make A Greater Impact With Self-Awareness

Jun 27, 2024

Here’s How To Overcome Adversity and Come Out A Winner

A runt of a Shetland pony named Socks helped teach me how to overcome adversity. We lived on a remote cattle ranch in Wyoming, and my…

Jun 5, 2024

Here’s How To Overcome Adversity and Come Out A Winner

Jun 5, 2024

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How To Have Hard Conversations and Not Let Your Emotions Take Over

For almost twenty-five years, I studied the habits and mindsets of foreign spies assigned to the U.S. to steal American classified and…

May 15, 2024

How To Have Hard Conversations and Not Let Your Emotions Take Over

May 15, 2024

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This Is How You Build Trust In Your Relationships

We already know that we will encounter people who will be untrustworthy or, worse, dishonest. We will face betrayals, big and small, in…

Apr 19, 2024

This Is How You Build Trust In Your Relationships

Apr 19, 2024

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How To Make The Science of Positive Thinking Work For You

COVID, a troubled economy, and a violent rise of nationalism worldwide have ushered in a modern version of the Dark Ages. Doom and gloom…

Apr 10, 2024

How To Make The Science of Positive Thinking Work For You

Apr 10, 2024

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How To Have The Courage To Move Into A Brave Space

Life can suck. There are days when things go so badly that you want a refund. We’ve all heard that acceptance is the key to good…

Mar 27, 2024

How To Have The Courage To Move Into A Brave Space

Mar 27, 2024

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6 Ways You Can Reduce Anxiety And Make Gratitude A Stronger Emotion

I grew up with a strong sense of right and wrong, and those values impacted my deepest beliefs about my behavior. They guided my decisions…

Mar 16, 2024

6 Ways You Can Reduce Anxiety And Make Gratitude A Stronger Emotion

Mar 16, 2024

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How You Can Be More Resilient When Things Get Hard

The things that come closest to killing us are the things that make us grow. Damn, why do life’s best lessons need to come wrapped up in…

Mar 11, 2024

How You Can Be More Resilient When Things Get Hard

Mar 11, 2024

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The Most Important Thing No One Ever Taught You

How well do you know yourself?

Mar 1, 2024

The Most Important Thing No One Ever Taught You

Mar 1, 2024

Beware The Problem Of A “Feel Good” Culture

We’re in the middle of a “make everyone feel good” culture where it’s important everyone walks away a winner. The idea that everyone gets a…

Feb 24, 2024

Beware The Problem Of A “Feel Good” Culture

Feb 24, 2024

The Best Advice On How To Detect Lack Of Integrity In People

Integrity is a word that we hear almost every day but we seldom take the time to think about it. Integrity is similar to ethics, honesty…

Feb 13, 2024

The Best Advice On How To Detect Lack Of Integrity In People

Feb 13, 2024

The Multi-Tasking Myth and 4 Tips to Help You Focus

The four years I worked as the spokesperson for the FBI in Northern California were the busiest of my career. I’d spent the previous twenty…

Feb 1, 2024

The Multi-Tasking Myth and 4 Tips to Help You Focus

Feb 1, 2024

How To Cope With Moral Injury In The Workplace

As an undercover FBI agent, I had to learn how to lie to people. This is ironic because if an agent is less than honest in their…

Jan 11, 2024

How To Cope With Moral Injury In The Workplace

Jan 11, 2024

LaRae Quy

LaRae Quy

Former counterintelligence FBI agent | Mental Toughness Center | Consultant | Speaker | Author: Secrets of A Strong Mind, & Mental Toughness for Women Leaders

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