You are listening to the Influencer Podcast episode number 23.

Last week, Annie Spano told us how to partner with blog communities to grow our businesses.

This week, I'm sharing some hard-fought lessons, insight, and wisdom into the importance of following your fear and the success

it can bring.

Welcome to the Influencer Podcast.

Each week, Julie Sullivan, a marketing strategist and New York Times best-selling publicist,

takes you behind the scenes with successful influencers, bloggers, and industry elites

in conversation to share how they engage, persuade, and grow their unique influence.

Her mission is to share exclusive insider tips, wisdom, and action-based tools to help you strengthen,

monetize, and build your own industry leading influence.

Lately, it seems as if you can't read a social media post or article without someone telling you to follow your passion, follow your bliss, follow your heart, your dreams, your

arrow, etc. etc. Now yes, of course all of these things are really important,

but what I really want to connect on with you today is the power of

following your fear.

Now I am not talking about

the fear-based actions that may cause you or someone else harm. What I'm talking about is the power of following good fear,

really focused fear, the kind of fear that won't leave you alone, a fear about something

amazing that you've always wanted to do, something bold, real, authentic, something that

you know truly defines who you are, and truly defines what your brilliance

is and what your brand really is.

I'm talking about the kind of fear that truly shows you how you're supposed to

really influence in this world. The moment that you have the idea of going for it, the fear of failure usually kicks in right we always think will people like this will I be accepted will I be heard and understood what if I do it and it sucks but one of my favorite

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