What fear has held you back the most in your life?

We wake up, get work, go back home and rinse and repeat – or at least it feels that way sometimes. In truth, there are a million moments in between where we interact with others and we can’t help but wonder what folks will think about us once we aren’t showing up, perhaps once we are gone. Some very thoughtful members of the community share their thoughts on this with us below.

Rayni Collins

I want to answer this from the perspective of the people I work with—because what I see over and over again is that it’s not just fear of pain that holds people back. It’s fear of their own feelings. Read More>>

Anthony Allen

The fear that has held me back the most is the fear of failure. For a long time I played it safe in my career because I worried about what would happen if I stepped out on my own. Eventually I realized that staying comfortable was a bigger risk than taking the leap. Starting my own recruiting firm forced me to face that fear head-on. Read More>>

Linda Storm

For years I lived with a fear of not being good enough. When I first read about Imposter Syndrome I dove into researching it. I definitely have experienced feeling like a fake because my art could not possibly be good enough. I practiced saying ‘I am an artist.’ until I felt it. Read More>>

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