Do you ever feel torn between wanting control and craving freedom—between anxious overthinking and playful spontaneity?

This episode names that tension and shows you how to work with it. Nikki P sits down with educator, speaker, and improviser Emma Supica (founding Executive Director of Unscripted) to explore how improv lowers the volume on anxiety without pretending it isn’t there. We dig into both/and thinking for real emotional intelligence, navigating transitions, and meaningful personal growth—with simple tools for emotional clarity, decision making, and emotional regulation when life feels like the messy middle.

You’ll learn how to hold mixed emotions and navigating gray areas with self-compassion, practice “yes, and” to communicate with more authenticity, and reframe failure as data so healing isn’t linear—it’s grounded, honest progress. Emma shares playful, research-backed ways to build emotional resilience, give yourself permission to feel, and bring presence and creativity back to relationships, work, and everyday life transitions.

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