Go To on Pushing Through Fear

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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We carry around this dangerous myth that brave people feel brave—that somewhere out there, women are standing up in meetings and saying the hard thing without their heart rate changing, that courage is a feeling you either have or don't have. Kelly blows up that whole idea by sharing what she learned from her conversation with Olympian Allyson Felix: when Allyson hit send on the New York Times op-ed that would take on Nike and change their maternity policy, she was shaking. There was never a moment she felt ready, never a moment she wasn't scared. It's about understanding that courage isn't a feeling or a personality trait—it's what you do in the moment between knowing what you need to say and saying it. This episode has been made possible by a grant from Ingeborg Initiatives, a social impact platform dedicated to improving maternal health and making it easier to raise a family. To learn more, please visit: ingeborginitiatives.com". To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.8	Hey, everybody. This short segment is called a go-to. It refers back to this crazy thing we used to do at the end of our sorority meetings in college,
0:41.3	if you can believe that. It was called for the good of the order, and it was a way to share something that had emerged over the course of the week, which really was a bit of learning
0:48.0	or thinking or feeling that was to everyone's benefit to share. And so that's all we'll do here. Every Friday, we release a go-to,
0:57.1	and we encourage you to share it with friends around the country. We know that people use it as a way
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1:09.0	wherever they might be. And as for your local nearest and dearest,
1:12.9	consider it fodder for discussion over the course of the weekend.
1:16.2	This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders in our weekly segment called GoTo.
1:22.1	This week's Go-To is some follow-on thoughts
1:26.7	after my conversation with Olympian Allison Felix on Tuesday.
1:32.1	So I went into that thinking I knew the story. Fastest woman alive takes on Nike, wins, changes
1:39.7	policy, roll credits. And that is the story, but it's not the whole story. And there's a part I keep
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