2217 | Lisa Nichols: “If it Doesn’t Make You a Little Afraid, You Ain’t Playing Big Enough.”

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Sean Croxton

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Lisa Nichols stops by to redefine fear—not as a fortress, but as fuel. In this electrifying message, she dares you to leap into your greatness, rewrite the story you've been living, and embrace discomfort as the cost of transformation.

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0:00.0	Yo, today's QOD is, if it doesn't make you a little afraid, then you ain't playing big enough.
0:07.3	Here we go.
0:34.9	Yeah. Welcome back to the quarter of the day. I'm your host, Sean Croxton, as Sean Croxton.com.
0:38.0	Welcome back, my friend.
0:39.0	I hope you had a lovely three-day weekend and you're ready to get this week rocking and rolling.
0:43.5	We've got Lisa Nichols on the show today.
0:45.4	There is so much good stuff in this clip.
0:48.7	It is so good.
0:49.6	She's talking about fear, what it really means, how you got to walk up to it and just jump. Just do the thing
0:57.5	because the time is never going to be right. She's going to talk about writing your own story,
1:03.0	redesigning your life again. So much good stuff in here. I'm going to be quiet and let her do her
1:08.5	thing. Lisa Nichols coming up. I stopped by to be quiet and let her do her think. Lisa Nichols coming up.
1:15.7	I stopped by to redefine fear.
1:17.0	Yes, yes.
1:18.5	To redefine it.
1:21.4	Because fear is an emotion like any other emotion.
1:24.3	Fear is an emotion like love, like compassion.
1:25.4	Fear is an emotion.
1:26.8	We just gave it more power. Mm. We just gave it more power. Compassion.
1:31.5	Oh, that's nice. Fear. We made, we gave it a meaning. And some of you know you've heard this
1:38.4	before that fear is false evidence appearing real. Fear is just a story. Get this. Fear is a story that you've told
1:50.0	yourself about something that might happen in the future. That you have zero evidence that it
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