Big Asian Energy What Happens When a World-Changing Entrepreneur Finally Breaks Down to Break Through with Jane Chen
Oct 14, 2025
Jane Chen, founder of Embrace and author of Like a Wave We Break, built a low-cost infant warmer that saved over a million babies and later became a trauma-informed leadership coach. She talks about burnout that forced her to heal, psychodrama and IFS parts work, and the role of psychedelic-assisted therapy and reparenting in finding worthiness and better leadership.
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Trauma Rewires Body And Predicts Health Risks
- Trauma rewires the brain and nervous system so past events are brought into present responses, increasing risks for physical and mental health issues.
- Higher adverse childhood event (ACE) scores correlate with worse outcomes including stroke, heart disease, diabetes, and higher suicide attempts.
Tony Robbins Call Changed The Journey
- While in Indonesia Jane randomly got a call from Tony Robbins' team offering investment and an invitation to Date With Destiny after Robbins learned about Embrace.
- That serendipity led her to Tony's events which became a catalyst in her healing journey.
Reparent Yourself To Find Worthiness
- Do the inner work: give yourself the love and words you wished you had from caregivers, because external achievements cannot supply core worthiness.
- Jane's pivotal moment was verbally reparenting her five-year-old self and finally feeling the message in her body.
