Dr. Marissa Pei – Carpenter

Dr. Marissa Pei – Carpenter, Organizational Psychologist, Network TV Commentator, Award winning author of 8 Ways to Happiness from Wherever You Are and Celebrity Host of the Year Top 10 in Health Award show.

“Take My Advice, I’m Not Using It: Get Balanced with Dr. Marissa”, syndicated on iHeartRadio  and CNBC/NBC KCAA.

She has been introduced to Oprah as the ‘Asian Oprah’!

As a broadcast journalist, Dr. Marissa has Red Carpet interviews with John Travolta, Halle Berry, Quincy Jones and more.

As a psychologist she’s worked with Fortune 100 companies across industries for many years, including AT&T, MasterCard, Toyota, Wells Fargo, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson.  Taught in the Anderson Graduate School of Management.

Winner of the Iconic Women Award presented by the women’s economic forum in India, Business person of the year Lotus award, Asian heritage award, Asian entrepreneur of the year award… Dr. Marissa’s list of honors go on.

She’s been interviewed by the major networks, CBS, NBC, FOX and was featured by FOX5 DC for Women’s History Month.

Her life motto is Don’t die wondering!

Dr. Marissa Pei-Carpenter, Society is out of balance—war, hate, division, terror Kids are out of balance—girls’ hazing, house destruction video, mailbox shooting Individuals are out of balance—tired, hopeless, helpless, depressed—looking for relief in drugs (lately a stunning increase in pharmaceuticals); running on a hamster trail always striving…for what? We lose ourselves in the search for material short-term satisfaction…many asking…”is this all there is?”

How do we find Balance?

What is the answer?

Take Reality…there is no “happily ever after”.

Wake up and smell the roses AND the fertilizer. I myself thought that once I had my career, a man, a child, that life would become magically happy. But the good bad and ugly of life has a habit of interjecting itself every day.

There are not-so-positive AND wonderful interactions with my family, there are illnesses with loved ones, there are illnesses in my own body. There are politics and successes and unfairness at work and in my play. That is what life is…a bed of roses on top of stinky but helpful manure. So quit trying to avoid feeling human, and stop immersing ourselves in busywork, doing—doing—doing—often ending in “doo-doo”.

After all, we’re Human Beings not Human Doings. Reality is so much more gloriously complex than Happily Ever After.

So ENJOY BEING FULLY ALIVE!

Take Responsibility…for who we are and are not, for what we have and have not, for who we want to be. Life isn’t fair sometimes, and people who shouldn’t hurt us, do. “Can’t change the past so don’t dwell on it” seems is good in theory, but what actually happens is like the pressure in a garbage truck crusher…sooner or later toxic gasses escape.

We need to deal thoroughly with our pain and anger, and then make new conscious purposeful choices for our present.

If we don’t deal with our past…it WILL deal with you, often consciously/unconsciously sabotaging your relationships at work and at home.