Best of 2020: Michelle Poler | Learning to Embrace, Live and Negotiate with Fear
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Michelle Poler inspired a movement, Hello Fears, by facing 100 fears in 100 days. She went skydiving, she held a tarantula, she did trapeze and even wore no pants on the subway. Michelle has made it her mission to overcome the fear of being afraid and find true courage. Listen to learn how to embrace fear and take bold action in the face of it.
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| 0:00.0 | I inherited most of my fears from my mom, that's the truth, and she inherited those fears from her parents that are Holocaust survivors. |
| 0:08.8 | So it's not really her fault. My grandparents were in concentration camps for years and they lost most of their family members, |
| 0:17.3 | like even their parents in the camp. So that's very traumatic for anybody and they were able to survive and then they were taken to Venezuela. |
| 0:28.0 | So super random country for them. They come from Europe. They didn't speak the language or understand the culture or anything. They had to start from zero, but they were full of fears and traumas and then they had my mom and they raised her the best they could but that's that's it that's the best they could you |
| 0:44.5 | know that's what she knew so even though she is a psychologist and she could |
| 0:50.8 | empower other people to understand their life better and want to face |
| 0:57.4 | her own fears, she's still a human. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative |
| 1:07.0 | podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most |
| 1:10.4 | innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, |
| 1:14.8 | written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 1:17.8 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative.com. |
| 1:36.1 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats so you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone |
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| 1:47.0 | Michelle, welcome to the unmistakable Creative. |
| 1:51.0 | Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:53.2 | My pleasure, thank you for having me. Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here. So I was introduced to you by way of |
| 1:59.5 | Patrick McGinnis who told me about the work that you are doing around fear, which I think I have found is a huge |
| 2:06.9 | issue particularly for many creatives. But before we get into all that, I want to start by asking you where in the world did you grow up and what impacted where you grew up end up having on the choices that you've made with your life in your career. |
| 2:19.0 | Wow, deep question right off the band. I like it. So I grew up in Caracas, Venezuela in Latin America. |
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