Hello and welcome to the ESG Fitness podcast. The aim of this podcast is to help you think,

learn and grow and hopefully smile and laugh on the way too. My aim here is to break down your

barriers to taking action and provide you with evidence-based diet and exercise information

in a fun and interesting way.

I hope I nail that and I hope you enjoy.

If at any point you are enjoying this and you think, wouldn't it be great to work with Emma,

you can head to esgfitness.com.com.com.

To find out more information.

Without further ado, because I hate long introductions, here is this

episode. Hello, I was going to say, hello, welcome to this episode, but I've made me

a little intro, haven't I? Which I'm sure people can probably tell that I've made myself

because of the level of quality of that. So I hope everyone has enjoyed that and is enjoying that.

I also hope you can't hear my microwave, which is defrosting some peas. Anyway, on to the episode. This episode is about fear of failure, lack of confidence,

and imposter syndrome. So the things that often stop people taking action. And these things,

fear of failure, lack of confidence, imposter syndrome, they're not going anywhere.

So the solution isn't to try and make them go away or to avoid them.

In fact, avoiding them will only make things worse as the only way to increase confidence

and reduce fear of failure is by taking

action and building that trust within yourself that no matter what happens, you will be okay,

you will deal with it because you are resilient. So the answer to fear is to trust yourself.

If you know how to handle it, you don't need to fear it.

If you trust yourself that no matter what life throws at you, you'll be able to deal with it,

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