Fear Is Not an Option: How to Break the Rules, Speak Up, and Step into Your Power | Monica Berg (Fan Fav)

Women of Impact

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Society & Culture, Relationships, Education

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This is a Fan Fav episode. This week’s guest on Women Of Impact is Monica Berg. Monica Berg is the author of Fear Is Not An Option and serves as Chief Communications Officer for Kabbalah Centre International. In this episode she talks about how she overcame a debilitating eating disorder at a young age and how she built her self worth. SHOW NOTES: Monica talks about how to deal with fear [3:21] Why women have a harder time with listening to their intuition [6:32] Monica Berg talks about how to deal with shame [8:48] How Monica thinks about “regret” and why discipline is how to get around it [12:30] Why you need to get to know yourself [16:20] How to overcome your most debilitating fears [18:57] Why Monica believes “words have power” and how you can use them to overcome fear of failure [20:01] How successful people get that way (without luck) [21:07] How Monica responded to having a child with Down syndrome [23:12] How to retrain your brain to respond to any challenge positively [29:30] Why you should adopt the phrase “Fear Is Not An Option” [32:30] How Monica is able to live without expectation [39:42] How to control your emotional responses[43:32] Why it’s important to name your fears [44:40] Original air date: 5-18-19 FOLLOW MONICA: WEBSITE: https://rethinklife.today INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/monicaberg74 TWITTER: https://twitter.com/monicaberg74 CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Vital Proteins: Get 20% off by going to ⁠https://www.vitalproteins.com⁠ and entering promo code WOI at check out. SleepMe: Visit ⁠https://sleep.me/woi⁠ to get your Chilipad and save 20% with code WOI. Try it risk-free with their 30-night sleep trial and free shipping! OneSkin: Get 15% off with code LISA at ⁠https://oneskin.co ⁠ Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at ⁠https://shopify.com/lisa⁠ Macy’s: Upgrade your glam at ⁠https://macys.com⁠ ********************************************************************** LISTEN TO WOMEN OF IMPACT AD FREE + BONUS EPISODES on APPLE PODCASTS:⁠ ⁠ ⁠apple.co/womenofimpact⁠ ********************************************************************** FOLLOW LISA: Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lisabilyeu/⁠ Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/lisabilyeu⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/womenofimpact⁠ Tik Tok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@lisa_bilyeu?lang=en⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Jack, I'm seeing your business everywhere. Have you got a new marketing person or something?
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0:29.6	I can see it starting.
0:31.6	You're beginning to get cellulite on the back of your thighs.
0:34.6	You need to start watching what you eat.
0:36.6	These are the words spoken today's Women of Impact at just 12 years old. on the back of your thighs, you need to start watching what you eat.
0:37.5	These are the words spoken today's women of impact at just 12 years old.
0:41.8	And while it didn't take a hold of her immediately, the fear of food was planted.
0:46.4	And over time, like any seed, well, they eventually grow roots.
0:51.4	And so five years later, when her closest friends were all leaving for college, she felt
0:56.0	like her life was caving in. The fear of being left behind, feeling alone and lost was out of her
1:02.9	control. So she sought comfort and refuge in something she could control, her food intake. Yes,
1:10.1	the roots had finally taken a hold of her. And so for five years,
1:14.4	she battled ruthlessly with anorexia and body dysmorphia until one day she caught her
1:19.8	reflection in the mirror and she no longer recognized the skeletal figure staring back at her.
1:25.1	And that's when it finally hit her. The fear of feeling like
1:28.8	she wasn't even worthy of food was now up against her fear of dying. So both fears stepped
1:35.5	into the ring, the ring girls held up the round and the bell ran. Blood, sweat and tears
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