1048: Transforming Insecurities into Strength and Action with Margie Warrell

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Margie Warrell explores how to build the courage to move beyond fear and unlock new possibilities.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to identify your insecurities and overcome them

2) The two dimensions of courage

3) How to take action despite your fear

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— ABOUT MARGIE —

Margie Warrell is a five-time best-selling author, keynote speaker, leadership coach, and Forbes columnist. With twenty-five years of experience living and working around the world, she has dedicated her life to helping others overcome fear and unlock their potential.

From her humble beginnings on a small farm in rural Australia to her former role as a Senior Partner at Korn Ferry and Advisory Board member for the Forbes School of Business & Technology, Margie has learned that courage is essential for every worthwhile endeavor. A mother of four and an advocate for women's empowerment, she inspires others to live bravely and refuse to settle in any aspect of life.

• Book: The Courage Gap: 5 Steps to Braver Action

• LinkedIn: Margie Warrell

• Podcast: Live Brave Podcast

• Quiz: The Courage Quiz

• Website: MargieWarrell.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck

• Past episode: 552: The Foundational Principle that Separates Good Leaders from Bad Ones with Pat Lencioni

• Past episode: 1034: Simple Shifts that Form Exceptional Teams with Keith Ferrazzi

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0:00.0	We thrive the most when we are leveraging our strengths in service of something that's meaningful to us
0:16.8	versus something that's purely superficial and people who thrive the most are doing things.
0:21.5	They're working hard toward meaningful goals.
0:25.0	And there is a lot to be said for recognizing that our fear constricts what we do.
0:30.3	And the more we're willing to get comfortable, practice getting comfortable, being uncomfortable,
0:35.4	then it expands us to do all sorts of things,
0:37.8	because when you're willing to feel anything, it emboldens you for everything.
0:50.9	That's Margie Worrell. She's a five-time bestselling author, keynote speaker, leadership coach, and Forbes columnist.
0:57.0	With 25 years of experience living and working around the world, she's dedicated her life to helping others overcome fear and unlock their potential.
1:05.0	Her book, The Courage Gap, Five Steps to Braver Action, shares how courage is essential for every worthwhile endeavor.
1:12.4	So you'll learn one, how to identify your insecurities and overcome them.
1:16.1	Two, the two dimensions of courage and three, how to take action despite fears.
1:21.6	And if you'd like the quick summary write-up version of the actionable takeaways,
1:25.7	I recommend you sign up for the gold nugget email newsletter for free at Awesome at Your Job.com. I'm Pete Bikaitis. This is
1:33.3	how to be awesome at your job. And now, here's Margie. Margie, welcome. Great to be with you.
1:42.3	Well, I'm super excited to hear your perspectives on courage, and I want to start by hearing
1:46.7	what's one of the most surprising and fascinating and counterintuitive discoveries you've made
1:51.7	about courage in your career in researching this matter?
1:56.2	Ah, it's probably that courage is not always about stepping bravely forward, putting yourself
2:05.4	out there, saying a big yes and climbing out onto the far limb.
2:10.2	Sometimes courage is saying no, sitting still, doing nothing, and reconnecting, disconnecting, pressing pause on all the
2:22.8	doing and the bold acts of bravery, and just reconnecting with who we're being and being
	...

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