Women In The Penthouse

A heart attack makes her fearless at 65| Edith Chislett

Serena Wang

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If you have ever pushed through exhaustion, masked your stress with a smile or ignored what your body was telling you, this conversation is for you.

This episode is for every woman who feels: 
✨ High functioning on the outside but quietly overwhelmed on the inside 
✨ Disconnected from herself after years of putting everyone else first 
✨ Ready to stop coping and start truly living 
✨ She knows something needs to change but does not know where to begin

Edith Chislett is a mind-body practitioner, Master NLP Practitioner, Master Hypnotherapist, and former senior communications leader at HMRC. From the outside, her career looked successful. Inside, her body was carrying the cost. Then came a heart attack, two arteries blocked at over 90%, straight from the ambulance into surgery. What followed was a complete reinvention. Edith created Heart Mind Wellbeing, inspired by the Japanese concept of Kokoro (heart-mind), to help women stop coping, start listening and come home to themselves.

Episode Highlights
 
→ Why high-functioning women are often the most disconnected from their bodies → How women's heart attack symptoms look nothing like what we see on screen
→ The Japanese concept of Kokoro and reconnecting mind, body and spirit
→ Why fearlessness is sometimes the courage to slow down
→ How childhood patterns of feeling "not enough" silently shape our lives
→ Edith's three-step framework: Awareness, Realignment and Embodiment
→ Why visibility was the hidden block keeping Edith from her dream
→ What it truly means to live agelessly at 64

00:00 Intro 
02:25 Edith's career in government and corporate leadership 
05:33 Growing up feeling "not enough" and the roots of self-doubt 
08:28 How her mother's struggles shaped her relationship with responsibility 
10:00 Advice to her younger self: stop waiting for permission 
13:13 Childhood patterns playing out in the workplace 
17:28 Singing at a Children in Need concert, the moment that started everything 
21:12 Leaving HMRC, choosing the unknown over false stability 
26:02 The heart attack that changed everything 
29:00 Why women's heart attack symptoms are dangerously different 
33:10 Becoming the CEO of your own body 
34:20 The mind-body connection, your body is your greatest ally 
37:01 A new definition of fearlessness: the courage to slow down 
42:46 Kokoro, the Japanese concept behind Heart Mind Wellbeing 
45:40 What being limitless really means 
48:40 The visibility block, and Edith's word of the year 
53:08 Advice for any woman ready to be fearless: decide and move 
58:41 What being ageless really means at 64 
1:02:37 Why Edith feels she is just getting started 
1:05:59 Tips for igniting ageless energy in daily life 
1:08:11 Take time for yourself to remember who you are 
1:16:13 Three pieces of advice for her 20-year-old self 
1:18:27 Edith's upcoming book "Thoughtless" and her vision 
1:20:36 The Penthouse Rule