Listen Up!: Unlocking The Secret Languages of Intuitives, Creatives and Anaytical Thinkers

By Amy Lanci

More people are on the same page than you may think. They just may be speaking different languages. 

When you consider how every community, industry, and culture of any kind has its own culture and language, then the way to successfully navigate any conversation is to figure out how to speak in the same tongue while still

• Language: English
• Publisher: Untold Story Enterprises
• Release date: Mar 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9798218009151

Amy Lanci

Amy Lanci loves finding the gold within people. As a second generation Chinese American, Amy was born and raised in the Los Angeles county area of southern California. As a young girl, she was speech-delayed and quite scared of the world. Despite nine years of speech therapy, she remained awkward and shy for the rest of her childhood. Along the way, she discovered a love for writing that took the form of fictional stories and journal writing and a love for marine biology. After earning her undergraduate degree in ecology, behavior and evolution from the University of California, San Diego, she began her career in sea turtle genetics as a contractor for the Marine Turtle Genetics Program at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center as an employee for Ocean Associates, Inc.Although everything seemed okay from the outside, the inside was a much different story. Amy struggled with her weight, her emotional eating, and her ability to establish boundaries to protect her sensitive nature. Finally, at the age of twenty-four, Amy was pushed to finally work on her personal issues when she was diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disorder. She finally worked on her emotional eating, lost weight, healed her liver, and found her husband. When she looked at her journey and her career, she decided to try something new. At first, she got certified as a health coach from the Institute for IntegrativeNutrition (IIN) and started her first business. After two years, the health coaching practice went nowhere and she was at a loss. Her then-business coach, Tiffany Largie, challenged her to switch over her business to copywriting and communication. Within a week of changing over her website and her business cards toreflect this new direction, Amy got her first two paying clients ever."It was as if the Universe was telling me, 'Go that way!'" While juggling her responsibilities as a wife and mother, Amy worked hard to build her business during her off-hours in order to pursue her dream. Every time she spoke on stage and presented her story, she was constantly reminded of what her gifts were and how she straddled the line between intuition, creativity, and being analytical. It was the path to becoming whole.After the sudden death of her dear friend and coach, KeeKee Cornelious, Amy finally found the courage to jump fully into entrepreneurship. Eight days after receiving the sad news of KeeKee's death, Amy sent in her three-month notice and wrapped up her fourteen-year career in science. Now she is on a mission to make sure she uses her gifts to help people translate their dreams into words to make sure they are heard.Are you having trouble describing "what you do" to your audience? Book a strategy call here to learn how to start speaking your audiences' language! https://bit.ly/strategycallwithamy

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Listen

Up!

UNLOCKING THE SECRET LANGUAGES OF INTUITIVES, CREATIVEs AND

ANALYTICAL THINKERS

AMY LANCI

Listen Up!

Unlocking the Secret Languages of Intuitives, Creatives, and Analytical Thinkers

Copyright © 2023 Amy Lanci

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Print ISBN: 979-8-218-01246-5

Ebook ISBN: 979-8-218-00915-1

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022922874

Printed in the United States

Contents

Introduction 1

How To Use This Book 9

Intuitive Healers 13

Strengths of Intuitives 16

Challenges for this population 21

What the Conversation

Starter Needs to Keep in Mind 28

Recommended Communication Strategies 34

Keywords and Key phrases 42

Creatives 61

Strengths of this Population 63

Challenges for This Population 66

What the Conversation

Starter Needs to Keep in Mind 73

Recommended Communication Strategies 77

Keywords and Key Phrases 83

Analytical Thinkers 87

Strengths of This Population 89

Challenges for This Population 94

What the Conversation

Starter Needs to Keep in Mind 97

Recommended Communication Strategies 98

Keywords and Key Phrases 102

What All Three Have in Common 105

References 107

About the Author 109

This book is dedicated to my family, my friends, and to all those who believed in my gifts way before I ever did. Thank you for helping me to feel heard.

Introduction

I was a child of no words. People scared me. The world was terrifying. Loud noises were too much. With no way to call for help, I clung to safety as best as I could, and, at the time, my sole source of comfort was my family. I considered everyone else off-limits.

My internal world was all about protection and retreat. To the external world, I was a very socially awkward and needy child.

After I tested negative for autism, the doctors chalked up my behavior to my speech delay and sent me on my way to get speech therapy for the next nine years. Over time, words finally escaped my lips, and I started to trust other kids enough to form friendships. Even then, I still felt very different than everyone else around me. Deep inside, I felt like there was a hidden truth that lurked, crawling its way around my thoughts silently as I went about my life, leaving me with more questions than answers.

Eventually, I found solace in writing. The written word allowed me to freely articulate my emotions and my ideas without the interference of worldly judgments and rules. It was in this space I was able to recount my day, explore different worlds, and play within the confines of my mind. At some point, I created my own superhero—a play on Marvel Comics’ The Phoenix—but made her my own. It was glorious, and I loved it. Yet there were moments of sadness and loneliness because I still felt far removed from the truth of my being, which felt so separate from my external world.

Everyone around me saw me as the typical sweet Asian American girl who got good grades and did anything and everything to make her family proud. I felt extremely misunderstood and uncomfortable in my skin.

Then my life took a turn. After a fateful trip to a Baja research station through the local community college (I was a sophomore in high school), I changed all my other plans to become a journalist and beelined to marine biology. I got my bachelor of science in ecology, behavior, and evolution from the University of California, San Diego. I worked as a lab technician contracted for the National Marine Fisheries Service. For fourteen years, my primary role was to extract the DNA from sea turtle tissue samples (e.g., skin, blood, dead turtle embryos, and muscle) and turn it into data that would eventually play a role in protecting sea turtles under the Endangered Species Act. In a nutshell, the work I did helped scientists determine whether or not a fishery was catching too many sea turtles. If so, they could shut the fishery down. (To this day, every time I tell the story about my prior career, I get a little embarrassed because I have no