EP. 68 | Are You Falling for One of These 7 Excuses? (Spoiler: They're All Fear)

Jul 8

"I don't have time." "I'm just being realistic." "Now's not the right time." "Who am I to do that?"

Here's the uncomfortable truth: every one of those is fear wearing a disguise.

Fear rarely shows up with a name tag. It dresses itself up as busyness, as being realistic, as gratitude, as "that's just not me" - sneaky little excuses that sound so responsible you never think to question them. And so it quietly runs the show — picking what you say yes to, what you talk yourself out of, and how small you let yourself stay.

In this episode, I hold up the most common excuses I hear from my clients (and catch myself using), translate what each one is really saying underneath, and hand you the instant reframe to flip it.

Because you don't change your life by getting rid of the fear. You change it by changing your relationship to fear - and finally going after the thing that's been quietly waiting for you.

Which excuse is yours? Press play and find out. 🎧

Been sitting on something you want to build from what you've been through?

A speaking career. A book. A nonprofit in honour of someone you lost. A podcast. An advocacy campaign. The thing that won't leave you alone.

Most people don't have ten problems standing in their way - they have one problem wearing ten disguises. On a free 30-minute Direction Call, we find yours, get clear on what you actually want to build, and pin down one concrete step to take before the week is out. Not a sales call — a working session with a real outcome, whether we ever work together after or not.

I built my entire career from the two worst things that ever happened to me - not by finding the positive, but by asking a different question: what good can I create from this? Let's figure out yours.

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