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Fear Is Not Your Enemy. You Are.
It was 2010. I'm standing on a stage in front of 250 people and I'm falling apart.
Hands shaking. Voice cracking. Eyes locked on the floor because I knew if I made contact with a single person in that audience, I was done. I was a corporate leader who could run multi-million pound programmes and sit across from a C-suite board without flinching. And I couldn't get through five minutes on a stage without wanting to disappear.
But here's what I've realised since: the problem wasn't the stage. It wasn't the audience. It wasn't the lights or the room.
It was me.
This is the conversation nobody wants to have, because the problem isn't fear. The problem is what you're doing with it.
▶ IN THIS EPISODE
- The lie that high-performing leaders tell themselves every day and why 'waiting for the right time' is just fear wearing a suit
- The client story: a senior leader promoted to a global role who started falling apart and what we uncovered when we stopped talking about strategy
- From 2010 disaster to TEDx red dot and what those 12 years taught me about fear, readiness, and what it means to own your story
- The three disguises fear uses on leaders: perfectionism, over-preparation, and comparison and how to call each one out
- Why awareness without action is just entertainment and the three moves you can make today, not this weekend, today
▶ THE THREE MOVES DO THESE TODAY
Not this weekend. Not when you've had time to think about it. Today.
- Name the fear you've been disguising call it what it is, out loud if you have to, because fear loses power the second you stop pretending it's something else
- Flip your what ifs write down the three what ifs running your decisions, then rewrite them. 'What if I fail' becomes 'what if this works.' That's not positive thinking. That's accurate thinking.
- Take one imperfect action send the message, book the meeting, start the project, have the conversation. It doesn't have to be good. It has to be real.
Chapters
00:00 Facing the Fear of Public Speaking
03:46 Understanding Fear as a Leadership Challenge
06:30 The Role of Fear in Leadership Growth
09:44 Transforming Fear into Action
12:27 Identifying and Overcoming Disguised Fears
15:18 Taking Action Against Fear
16:38 Redefining Leadership
17:07 The Practice of Leadership
More on me:
Take the Pressure Pattern Check
For more information about me go to: chethirani.com
Get my Award Winning Bestselling book:
Burn The Rules Here
Connect, Follow & Subscribe:
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Keywords:
leadership, mindset, self-sabotage, confidence, decision-making, overcoming fear
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It was 2010. I'm standing on a stage in front of 250 people and I'm falling apart.
Hands shaking. Voice cracking. Eyes locked on the floor because I knew if I made contact with a single person in that audience, I was done. I was a corporate leader who could run multi-million pound programmes and sit across from a C-suite board without flinching. And I couldn't get through five minutes on a stage without wanting to disappear.
But here's what I've realised since: the problem wasn't the stage. It wasn't the audience. It wasn't the lights or the room.
It was me.
This is the conversation nobody wants to have, because the problem isn't fear. The problem is what you're doing with it.
▶ IN THIS EPISODE
- The lie that high-performing leaders tell themselves every day and why 'waiting for the right time' is just fear wearing a suit
- The client story: a senior leader promoted to a global role who started falling apart and what we uncovered when we stopped talking about strategy
- From 2010 disaster to TEDx red dot and what those 12 years taught me about fear, readiness, and what it means to own your story
- The three disguises fear uses on leaders: perfectionism, over-preparation, and comparison and how to call each one out
- Why awareness without action is just entertainment and the three moves you can make today, not this weekend, today
▶ THE THREE MOVES DO THESE TODAY
Not this weekend. Not when you've had time to think about it. Today.
- Name the fear you've been disguising call it what it is, out loud if you have to, because fear loses power the second you stop pretending it's something else
- Flip your what ifs write down the three what ifs running your decisions, then rewrite them. 'What if I fail' becomes 'what if this works.' That's not positive thinking. That's accurate thinking.
- Take one imperfect action send the message, book the meeting, start the project, have the conversation. It doesn't have to be good. It has to be real.
Chapters
00:00 Facing the Fear of Public Speaking
03:46 Understanding Fear as a Leadership Challenge
06:30 The Role of Fear in Leadership Growth
09:44 Transforming Fear into Action
12:27 Identifying and Overcoming Disguised Fears
15:18 Taking Action Against Fear
16:38 Redefining Leadership
17:07 The Practice of Leadership
More on me:
Take the Pressure Pattern Check
For more information about me go to: chethirani.com
Get my Award Winning Bestselling book:
Burn The Rules Here
Connect, Follow & Subscribe:
Youtube
TikTok
Keywords:
leadership, mindset, self-sabotage, confidence, decision-making, overcoming fear