089 REPLAY: Afraid to Fail? Here’s Why Failure is Really a Gift
Episode description
At the beginning of 2019, business coach Shanda Sumpter set a goal to fail 19 times in the next 12 months and publicly declared her goal.
Guess what happened?
By the time she hit her 7th failure that year, she’d already doubled her company.
Why? Because setting a goal to fail forced her to play BIG. She pushed herself to be brave, and the result was big time business growth and all kinds of opportunity.
I don’t know about you, but Shanda’s story makes me want to get busy failing.
So, while everybody else is busy talking about resolutions and goals and all their grand plans to make 2021 their best year ever, I’m actually setting the goal to fail 21 times in the next 12 months.
And that’s what we’re diving into in this episode. You’ll learn:
- Why failure can make this your best year yet
- Exactly why we’re so afraid to fail, and how to do the hard things anyway
- The four main types of risk
- The price we pay for avoiding mistakes
- The power we unleash when we overcome our fear
- And exactly how we overcome the fear that cripples us so we can get busy failing forward towards our biggest goals!
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Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
- Visit Shanda Sumpter's website and follow her on Instagram @shandasumpter
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- The Power of Failure: 27 Ways To Turn Life's Setbacks Into Success by Charles C. Manz
- The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
- The Responsibility Ethic by Adam Kreek
- Snag our free 99-Step Roadmap to get you from overwhelm to profitable blog in no time (It’s the exact checklist I used to go from $0 to six-figures in three years!)
- Don’t forget to join the free Success with Soul Facebook community here! We have follow-up conversations about the podcast episodes and I often go live to answer your burning questions.
- Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier and @rootandrevel
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EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Danny Ozment at https://emeraldcitypro.com