Okay, guys, I am finally recording this episode that y'all have been asking me for for months.

I got so many DMs about this topic and I hesitated to talk about it because it's not something

that I feel like I am an expert on and I don't tend to share information if I don't feel really confident

that I have a great insight or a great tool or something that can help you guys.

I never want to just talk about something just to talk about it, but I keep getting the requests

and so I'm taking it on and you're probably going to laugh when you hear the topic that I don't feel comfortable teaching on.

And that is the fear of success.

I'm Rachel Hollis and I've built a multi-million dollar media company with a high school diploma and the free information I found on the internet.

In the 15 years that I've been building and scaling my company, I have become deeply passionate about helping other entrepreneurs to do the same.

So, each week I'll be sharing tangible and tactical advice and inspiring interviews with the same intention.

These are the tools to change your life and your business.

This is the Rise Podcast.

I don't know, maybe you're laughing right now.

Any of my friends who are listening to this are like, yep, that is definitely not something that I struggle with.

I just, it's not to be totally honest, I'm going to send this sounds so dumb, but to be totally honest with you,

before someone asks me this question, it never occurred to me that people might be afraid of success.

So, I was at a conference the first time that a woman raised her hand and asked me this and I just remember kind of like looking at her,

going like, oh shoot, I don't even know how to answer this and I want to do a good job, but this is just not something that I have worried about.

And I was able to dig a bit deeper with her and kind of understand where her fears came from and that is how I came up with the content for today's episode was,

I did a lot of talking to the individuals who are asking me those questions and I dug a little deeper to understand what their fears actually were.

Because I think sort of people sum it up and say, oh, I'm afraid of success.

Well, are you afraid of success or are you afraid of the unknown?

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