Redefine Personal Limits, Find the Purpose, Chat With Sebastien Jauslin

Yasi: Welcome to your Fast Track podcast, Sebastian.

Sebastien Jauslin: Thank you so much, Yasi, for this wonderful opportunity. Thank you.

Yasi: And can you tell us a little bit about yourself? What do you do?

Sebastien Jauslin: Yeah, sure. So, I start from the start, my birth. So just to start from the very beginning, I was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in a multicultural family. My father is Swiss, and my mother is from Chile in South America, so I grew up in a very multicultural family with different languages. And that was something that was always very important for me in my life. I told you that I was born prematurely because it’s something that really defined myself from the very beginning and for the rest of my journey.

Because from very early on, I was told that academic achievements or sports achievements were not going to be available to me because I was too weak, so I always felt as a child that I had to work twice as hard to compensate and to be normal and just to fit in. And so this belief that I had about myself really pushed me, you know, higher and higher, stronger and stronger to surpass myself. So I did that academically end in sports, and I grew up in an environment where going to university was just the norm, it was just what people did. So I didn’t really give myself the chance to think, and I just went to university.

And again, in the environment I grew up in, I feel that the only way to be successful was either to become a lawyer or a doctor or a banker since we are in Switzerland, and I did that because it was kind of what everybody else was doing. So, I did become a lawyer.

Yasi: It’s kind of universal. I think in Asian culture is also a doctor, lawyer, not banker, maybe engineer in some countries, they’re like top choices, best jobs. And now you are doing therapy for people, being a therapist. How did you change your career from being a lawyer to a therapist, or why did you make the decision?

Sebastien Jauslin: Yeah, well, that was very interesting for me. And it took time, you know, it took years of self-discovery, of understanding who I was, what I wanted, because I did the studies, I think because I was a good student, but then when I started to actually practice, I realized that this was probably not what I really wanted to do deep in my heart. And so that’s where all the questions started.

And so I started to look around, I tried many different things to understand what the problem was because I really felt that the problem was within myself, and that’s what really attracted me to therapy and to all that world of understanding oneself.

Yasi: Is there any moment in your life that’s made you feel like, okay, this is it, I cannot take any more, I have to do something about it, or it’s just over the years you just slowly discovered it? How did you have that moment?

Sebastien Jauslin: Well. It was over the years, it was a long process, I would say, but I did get to a breaking point where in one of my legal jobs, I had a burnout, and I had to stop.

And that was kind of a wake-up call for me. I mean, today, I feel very privileged. I went through that experience. It was a very difficult one at the time, but now that I can look back, I have learned so much from that experience and about myself that I can only be grateful that I went through all that.

I’ve really made it my mission to help people who are going through similar experiences.

Yasi: Yeah. In modern-day society, I’ve read statistics that, you know, more people are experiencing burnout than developing countries life assumes like what’s stressful.

Sebastien Jauslin: Yeah, absolutely. And well, you know, we talk a lot about workload and pressure in those environments.

I think all that is very true, but one of the most important things I found In the process of my own experience was that it was really about asking myself, is that what I want to do? Does that make me happy? Because if it doesn’t, that also really influences the way you’re going to feel at work and in your life.

Yasi: Yeah. This reminds me of one of my favorite books is called The Mastery by Robert Greene. So in the book it talked about, you know, when we are born in a certain society and the families, we have certain beliefs that, you know, being a lawyer, being a doctor is the best job, go to university. And then everybody has his own inner voice.

But over time, from your peers, from the society, from the family, they create the beliefs that buried your own inner voice. And some people like you made it through, you find another path, but If you didn’t go through that experience, people are still living a life that maybe they don’t feel completely fulfilled.

That was a book I really like.

Sebastien Jauslin: Yes. And it’s exactly what I’m doing today with my clients is exactly the process I went through. It’s all about that. Most of us live up until a certain time, I’d like to say according to other people’s expectations, you know, whether it’s family, whether it’s society, whether it’s education.

And I did that for many years, I was living a life for others rather than for myself, and the whole process meant to go and find and to go and reconnect with that inner voice again, to find what really was making my heartbeat and making me happy.

Yasi: And what is about being a therapist that makes you feel more fulfilled than being a lawyer? Which parts, which elements were kind of job-related to that?

Sebastien Jauslin: I think what’s beautiful about both professions is that you kind of help people in both. But as a lawyer, I help people from the outside, I would say, and as a therapist, I help people from the inside. And so I have really the beautiful privilege to get to know people from the inside and get to know who they truly are with all the successes, failures, fears, you know, and that, and for me to have that level of connection with somebody is something that I have not found in another profession.

Yasi: Right. And I also experienced something similar when I was working in companies; you have a project, so somehow you finished the project, you know, do good for the business. And then when I have interviews with people like you, there is a personal connection.

It’s a personal-level conversation. It feels more personal, more human, I don’t know how to explain that.

Sebastien Jauslin: It’s exactly that. When I work with clients, when I have an experience with you like we do today, I see the real human being, you know, I feel that all the masks of society drop and I’m dealing with the real person as they are.

Yasi: Yeah. And so you mentioned that you are an RTT therapist. What does RTT mean?

Sebastien Jauslin: RTT means rapid transformational therapy, and it’s really a fabulous technique that I use, and that was created by Marisa Peer in London, with a 95% success rate. That combines the most effective healing benefits from NLP, so neuro-linguistic programming, CBT, co- behavioral therapy, as well as hypnosis and psychotherapy to really create a very effective technique that helps people permanently.

Yasi: When you say 95% success rate, how do you measure success? Like transformation or personal feeling? Is that something tangible you see?

Sebastien Jauslin: Yes, it’s the transformations that the clients go through after they go through a session or a program with me.

Yasi: And what area of therapy do you help people with in their life?

Sebastien Jauslin: Well, since I come from the corporate world, I really help corporate clients to find purpose beyond the job title. This is really the niche that I’m developing and that I like the most.

And there’s so much to do in this area because I can help those clients with stress, with anxiety. I can help them with self-confidence, self-esteem at work when they have to give a presentation, so I really helped them improve their performances at work and balance their professional and their private life as well.

But I also help other clients create the perfect life vision, for example, and I help them balance 12 essential dimensions of their life.

Yasi: What are the 12 essential dimensions?

Sebastien Jauslin: I’m not sure I can tell you. I’m not sure I have them at the top of my mind like that, but the 12 essential dimensions of your life are your relationship, your love relationship, your finances, your career, your health. These are really the big pillars of your life that make a successful life. And there are 12, and spirituality is another one, family is another one. And the idea is to really find balance in all those 12 areas to have a perfect life.

Because what we see in today’s society is that there is an imbalance. We give a lot of time and energy to work through our career, which means that then we have less time for our love relationship or our family or the other way around. So it’s all about balancing all these different areas.

Health is also a big one that we don’t give enough time because of work or because of family. So it’s all about, you know, finding the right balance between those dimensions.

Yasi: It is very eye-opening to understand those 12 key pillars in life. As you said, generally people who are very career-oriented professionals put a lot of emphasis on career development.

You know, maybe finances, but family, health, spirituality, maybe like community below all this they’re neglected, but they’re equally important to make you feel fulfilled, right? If it’s possible, maybe you can send me these key pillars, all 12, then I can put in the link, so our audience can take a look and evaluate if they need to work on some of the pillars.

Sebastien Jauslin: Absolutely. I’ll do that. Yeah.

Yasi: What are the most common issues that you have seen from your clients? Let’s say professionals that maybe our audience can pay attention to it to try to avoid it.

Sebastien Jauslin: Lack of purpose, I see this a lot. People come to me feeling that they have everything, you know, they have a job, they have a family, they have enough wealth to live, but they feel that something is missing and it’s all about finding what that is for them. What is it in their life that makes them sing, you know, what is it that makes them feel excited so they can really connect with that, and in the best-case scenarios, take a direction that will take them towards that, and have a fulfilled life.

The topic that I really see is stress that in the worst-case scenarios leads to burnout, anxiety. Weight problems are also something that I see a lot when people are unhappy in their life, they tend to eat, you know, to kind of fill a void somewhere, lots of different things.

Yasi: If some of our audience would be interested in having a session with you or, you know, experienced this, where can I find you? Where can I learn about your services?

Sebastien Jauslin: Yeah, it’s very easy. I have a website that they can consult; on my homepage, I have a really easy video that explains what RTT is, and my services are described there as well.

I also have a bio there where I talk about my journey, and they can learn a little bit more about myself and otherwise, I’m also quite active on social media, so LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram mainly.

Yasi: Yeah, I put everything in the show notes.

Sebastien Jauslin: They can just drop me a message there, and it’s very easy, we take it from there.

Yasi: I really loved the part that you experienced yourself, therefore you see the benefit of it, and you want to help other people because you have experienced burnout, you have experienced the journey of transformation, found your real purpose. I really liked that part. I think whoever becomes your client, you will totally understand them and connect well with them.

I hope some, the audience will find this session very useful. Thank you so much, Sebastian, for being here today.

Sebastien Jauslin: Thank you so much again for the opportunity. Yes, it was a pleasure.