Ep 169: Fear Factor. It May Not Be Possible To Conquer All Your Fears Before You Take Financial Action. It's Also Unnecessary.

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Business

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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What has held you back in your career, or with your money? Maybe you were scared — of what would happen, of failure, of the reaction of the people you know and love. Although getting over fear may be a goal, there's another way: You could do it scared. So says our guest Ruth Soukup, author of “Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love.” She walks us through how and why it works. In Mailbag, where to build your savings to buy your first home and why we have many credit scores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.0	Her money comes to you through PRX. X. her money. So we're going to start this show a little differently with a little
0:45.0	exercise in self-reflection and bear with me because it sounds more negative
0:50.3	than it's meant to. When you look back on all the things you haven't done with your money
0:55.8	or you haven't done with your career, what stopped you? What held you back? Maybe you got caught
1:02.4	up in the everyday busyness of life, maybe you weren't feeling as motivated
1:07.6	about those things as you thought you would, or maybe if you're being really honest with yourself, maybe you were really honest with yourself maybe you were scared.
1:17.0	The fear of the unknown can get in the way of a whole lot of financial decisions, career decisions,
1:27.0	moves that we could make that could really be good for us,
1:32.0	which is why sometimes you just need to do things scared.
1:37.0	That's the premise behind Ruth Suukup's company, podcast, and new book called Do It Scared, Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears,
1:46.1	overcome adversity, and create a life you love.
1:49.3	And Ruth is with us today on Skype to help us do all of that to face our fears so that we can create lives
1:56.3	that we love too.
1:57.8	Hey Ruth, thanks so much for calling in.
2:00.1	Hey, thank you so much for having me.
2:01.9	It's great to be here.
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