#105 How To Find Positivity in the Face of Adversity

What would you do if extreme hair loss transformed your entire life and career? In this episode of Timeless Teaching, I’m joined by Xi Ren Yan, who shares her journey of overcoming the challenges of alopecia areata, a condition that led to her losing all her hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes. After 20 years in corporate HR, Xi Ren’s experience inspired her to leave that path and focus on mental health and resilience. She now runs her own company, Xel Consulting, where she coaches and trains others on how to manage stress and thrive through her C.A.R.E. framework, a method that helped her through some of the toughest moments in her life. Tune in to hear how Xi Ren turned her struggles into a mission to help others!

Discussions Points: How To Find Positivity in the Face of Adversity

• From Corporate Leader to Wellness Advocate: How a life-altering experience pushed Xi Ren from HR leadership to wellness coaching.
• Stress and Its Hidden Dangers: Xi Ren opens up about the stress that nearly derailed her life and career.
• Coping Gone Wrong: How binge eating and punishing workouts masked deeper pain.
• The Power of Positivity: What happens when you stop suppressing emotions and choose positivity?
• Vulnerability Is Strength: Xi Ren reveals how vulnerability became her greatest asset in healing.
• C.A.R.E. Framework: Learn about Xi Ren’s science-backed strategy that’s helped her overcome life’s toughest challenges.
• Turning Pain into Purpose: Discover how adversity became the fuel for Xi Ren’s global mission.
• Redefining Beauty and Self-Worth: Losing her hair was just the beginning of a deeper transformation.
• From Stress to Success: How Xi Ren transitioned from corporate HR to empowering others through wellness.
• Dreaming Big: Xi Ren shares her vision of global impact and helping others rise above their struggles.

Our Guest: Xi Ren Yang

At the age of 35, Xi Ren Yang faced a traumatic experience of alopecia areata, which occurred after a period of intense stress and poor stress management. Her condition was severe, resulting in the complete loss of her long, thick hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes, deeply affecting her self-esteem and mental well-being.

Her journey inspired the development of the C.A.R.E. framework, grounded in science, which has helped her navigate personal and professional challenges, including job loss and unemployment during the onset of Covid. Leaving behind a 20-year corporate HR career, Xi founded Xel Consulting to empower professionals, offering coaching, training, and keynote speeches aimed at helping individuals manage work stress and enhance their well-being.