HeyJaredMy Rejection Story
In exclusive interviews, bestselling authors like Tina Wells, Kristen Butler, Jason VanRuler, and Neil Patel share how they navigated the toughest periods of their personal and professional lives, and how this shaped the success they now experience today.Studies show that the…
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Tiffany Yu on Disability Rejection, The Exclusion Effect, and Turning Exclusion into a Redemption Journey (opens the original)
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What if the deepest rejection isn't one loud "no," but the quiet ones that pile up until you stop noticing them? Alice is joined by Tiffany Yu — CEO and founder of Diversability, three-time TEDx speaker, and author of The Anti-Ableist Manifesto — who was nine years old when a car accident took her father's life and permanently paralyzed her arm. She grew up being picked last in gym class every single day, and internalized a quieter verdict underneath it: that she wouldn't get chosen in the rest
Why Losing a Friend Hurts More Than a Breakup with Friendship Psychologist Dr. Kimberly Horn (opens the original)
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What if the loneliest rejection isn't losing a partner but losing a friend? Alice Draper is joined by Dr. Kimberly Horn, internationally recognized research psychologist, public health scientist who spent nearly 30 years studying addiction and health inequalities, and author of Friends Matter, For Life: Harnessing the Eight Tenets of Dynamic Friendship (endorsed by Mel Robbins). After the pandemic, Kimberly watched her own research play out in real time: people suffering less from the virus itse
Stop Chasing Certainty: A Neuroscientist's Case for Curiosity Over Control with Anne-Laure Le Cunff (opens the original)
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What if the plan you're clinging to for safety is the very thing keeping you stuck? Alice is joined by Anne-Laure Le Cunff — neuroscientist, founder of the newsletter Ness Labs, and author of Tiny Experiments — who was thriving at Google until the morning she woke up to find her entire arm had turned purple. A blood clot threatening to travel to her lungs. Her first reaction in the ER? "One second, I need to check my calendar." That was the life quake that made her question everything — and even
Why Success Doesn't End Rejection — It Amplifies It (opens the original)
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What if the first person to reject you and the hardest one to recover from, was you? Alice is joined by Selena Rezvani, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, leadership and confidence speaker, and creator of the viral newsletter that became the Quick Confidence and Quick Leadership series. This episode is a masterclass in overcoming the fear of rejection at work: Selena has half a million followers teaching self-advocacy, yet the rejection she keeps circling back to isn't from a publisher or a
How to Stop People-Pleasing as someone with ADHD and RSD (opens the original)
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This episode discusses ADHD, rejection sensitivity, and mental health. It is educational and not a substitute for professional care. What if being "too nice" was never a personality flaw — but your nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do to stay safe? Everyone who loves Alice has told her the same thing: be more assertive! Nobody ever explained how . In this solo episode she chases down her million-dollar question — how a self-described self-sacrificer with ADHD and rejection sensitiv
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