Who's Talking: A Roadmap to Emotional Intelligence and Self Mastery

by Chris Hinton

Who’s A Roadmap to Emotional Intelligence and Self-Mastery



Life is a series of choices, but the options you see are limited by your level of awareness. Who’s Talking helps you expand that awareness, uncover subconscious blind spots, and reconnect with the authentic version of YOU waiting beneath the surface.



Over years of helping people, author Chris Hinton has come to realize one powerful everything we do is relational. The relationship we have with money, family, food, friends—even ourselves—shapes every aspect of our lives. If you want these areas to improve, it starts with the most important relationship of the one you have with yourself.



Using the metaphor of an inner “village,” where each villager represents emotions and subconscious patterns, this book equips you with tools to pause, observe, and lead with clarity and calmness. You’ll learn how unmet expectations fuel emotional dysregulation, discover practical techniques like “mental jiu-jitsu” and box breathing, and develop strategies for setting healthy boundaries that strengthen your relationships.



This isn’t just about managing emotions—it’s about waking up to the infinite possibilities of conscious living. By mastering your inner world, you’ll transform every relationship in your life and unlock the potential that’s been within you all along.



It’s time to take back your village and discover the life that’s been waiting for you.

Genres: Psychology

Kindle Edition

Published January 12, 2025

Reviews

[Liliana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyone should read it. It is a very practical, simplified and easy guide to apply emotional regulation techniques, understand our mind and emotions better and how to accept, and redirect heavy feelings in bad moments. Really professional but remains down-to-earth and easy to understand.

[Holly Mathieu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick read for a different approach to helping you navigate some of your emotions. For someone who works in the mental health field, this offered some great tools and reflections on who is actually talking in your mind and how you are not those feelings but the “observer” being able to give those feelings credence. The idea of a village was a little cheesy perhaps but it was an easy analogy and concept to grasp. If you are looking to work on self mastery of your emotions, I would recommend this book. 4.4 stars.

[Paulo]

A proposta do livro é interessante — a ideia de identificar qual emoção está “falando” tem valor e pode gerar alguns insights. Mas, na prática, a execução deixa a desejar. Os capítulos seguem uma estrutura muito repetitiva e o conteúdo acaba soando superficial e alongado além do necessário. Em vários momentos tive a sensação de que isso funcionaria melhor em um formato mais direto.

Curiosamente, os vídeos do autor nas redes sociais são mais interessantes e eficazes: conseguem transmitir as mesmas ideias com mais clareza, impacto e economia. O livro até toca em pontos emocionais importantes, especialmente em temas como luto e perdão, mas não sustenta profundidade ao longo da leitura.

[Sherry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exactly what I needed right now. It's not I wanted to hear, but what I needed. Most people go through life flailing their emotions around and not knowing how to get a hold of them. This book puts into perspective how it is not only possible to gain some type of control, but also where to start. it takes an entire lifetime and breaks it down into bite size pieces of understanding the emotional storms that happen in people's life. Well done, and I am so sorry for your loss Chris.

[Natalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Masterclass in Emotional Intelligence, Delivered with Unmatched Presence

This book is a powerful blend of emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and relationship insight, all presented in a way that feels both deeply authentic and refreshingly clear. There’s no unnecessary fluff or overcomplicated jargon, just practical wisdom that resonates on a soul level.

Listening to the audiobook elevated the experience even further. Chris’ voice has a calm, grounded authority that commands attention while also feeling soothing and reassuring. It’s rare to find a narrator whose delivery can hold my focus and simultaneously help me unwind, but his tone manages to do both. I’ve even found myself drifting off to sleep with his narration in the background, and I truly believe the lessons continue to settle into my subconscious.

If you’re ready to deepen your emotional awareness, strengthen your connections, or simply hear perspectives that challenge and expand your thinking, this book is a must. It’s not just informative, it’s transformative.

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

My therapist gave me this book and I highly recommend everyone read it. It’s easy to read and digest - very similar to the movie Inside Out. I think the overall concept is basic emotional intelligence, but when you break it down like he did across 28 chapters you really get to dive deep and reflect and create real progress. I did one chapter a day for 28 days, which was the perfect way to reflect each day. Digestible for all ages really.

[A Salgado Mariana · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's weird to listen to this audio (almost) workbook.
It reads too fast. The exercises and the thoughts need to be paced and slower. It's sometimes hard to digest, and it gives you no time for it.

Even so, and even though it's no philosophy book, it's useful. And I want to revisit it. I ended up buying the printed version to read it more carefully and work around it.

It has helped.

[Denise Mitomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick book. Does a great job of explaining “parts” but making you visualize a “village”. You are the “observer” of these “villagers”. He provides some good questions to ask yourself. I look forward to when he writes more in depth on everything he briefly touched on.

[Jessica Bourne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a great read. It really makes you think about your emotions. Who is leading them, along with really recognizing your emotions and you can work with them to maintain control of yourself.

[Erika L · Rating 4 out of 5]

The content is good, but I did this in its audio version and the author doesn’t leave room to breathe. Chapters and sections all blur together, as if the book was only one, very long paragraph.

[Evanston Garneau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read for better understanding