The goal is not to overcome fear and never feel it. The goal is to develop better coping skills,

better tools in order to move through the fear. But the goal has never been to neutralize the fear

completely. Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more.

I'm Lindsay Schwartz, your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women,

and together we'll unlock the confidence and clarity you are looking for

to help you get out of your own way and into action around your next big idea.

I am here to tell you that 10 plus years into my entrepreneurship journey, I still experience

fear almost every single day. And if I'm being honest, I was so naive in the beginning.

And tell me if anyone else can relate to this. Maybe you are just getting started and you feel

this way too. I honestly believed that you reach a point where you've achieved enough success where you just didn't really

deal with fear anymore or you didn't doubt yourself. And I don't know about everyone else,

but my experience has been the opposite. That as my dreams have expanded, like the size of my

dreams, so has the size of my fear. And yes, I now have

far better tools to deal with that fear and move through it. I have grown, so now I know that I am

far more capable of handling it. But it doesn't erase the fact that I still

experience fear on almost a daily basis. And I'm going to tell you exactly why I believe that is a good

thing. That if you aren't experiencing fear right now in your life, if there aren't moments throughout your

week that make you kind of want to puke because you're so uncomfortable and you are putting

yourself out there and being vulnerable and going after things that you don't know if you have

any business doing, then I am here to tell you, my friend, you are likely not even coming close to scratching the

surface of your full potential.

That if you are comfortable and if your goal is to get to the point where you never experience

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