227: F*** Being Fearless (Try This Instead)
ON AIR WITH ELLA | Women's Wellness
Ella Lucas-Averett
5.0 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Can we stop telling women to BE FEARLESS, please?
Personally, I’m thrilled to have a functioning amygdala, and I’m also grateful for that inner voice that warns me to approach with caution when I am trying something new. That fear voice lets me know I’m on to something really BIG. Here's to being FIERCE, not fearless, and my mental hacks and actionable tips for how I face my fears.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. You're on air with Ella, where we share simple strategies and tips from people who are doing something better than we are. |
| 0:08.9 | Whether it's wellness or relationships to just living better and with more energy or changing your mindset to accomplish more in your own life and succeeding however you define it. |
| 0:18.3 | This is where we share the best of what we're learning from the experts, |
| 0:24.9 | and we're learning more every day. Live better. Start now. |
| 0:34.0 | The self-help world is full of trite sayings that are meant to inspire, and just because something is overused doesn't make it not true or not a value. |
| 0:38.3 | But there are some things that pop up in this personal development self-help world that I believe are well-intentioned, but wrong. |
| 0:46.9 | Not just hackneyed, but actually harmful propaganda. |
| 0:50.8 | Today's episode is about just that. |
| 0:52.9 | Two words that drive me crazy every time I hear and see |
| 0:57.8 | them. What are they? Cut carbs? Drink water. Count macros? No, the two words that drive me crazy |
| 1:07.1 | are be fearless. Be fearless. Rar, the boss babe, self-empowerment live laugh love accounts scream at us |
| 1:16.4 | don't listen to those fears ladies and gentlemen be fearless and take that lead quit your day job |
| 1:22.2 | pursue your passion live love hashtag blessed okay so i'm not normally super ranty to you, and today is no |
| 1:29.8 | exception, but I do want to break down why I don't love this kind of self-help propaganda and what |
| 1:35.8 | I would replace it with. And why does this matter? Firstly, I think it's useful to question our inputs, |
| 1:41.4 | just in general. I'm talking about what we feed our brains. It's actually |
| 1:46.1 | way easier than it should be to get swept up in the messages du jour, you know, and find |
| 1:53.0 | yourself swept along in the current of toxic positivity and well-intended, but misguided self-help. |
| 1:59.4 | I mean, any time we're searching for answers and for |
| 2:02.7 | inspiration outside of ourselves, we're actually vulnerable to questionable inputs and influences, |
| 2:08.2 | right? And you've seen this go wrong in the online world many times in recent history, |
| 2:13.5 | whether it's an influencer who basically creates a starvation diet and labels it as an accountability plan, |
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