Oh my God, I'm going to die at the end of my life knowing I've sided with my fears.

In this tug of war between fears and dreams, I sided with my fears.

There's a certain inertia that often takes hold of our lives when we hit a certain age.

One that says, you know that dream, it's just not that realistic.

So why don't you just buckle down and do the adult thing?

It's the voice of the inner critic, sometimes bundled with a whole lot of outer critic.

And together, these voices keep you from playing big, from refusing the call to do something

that might just leave you exposed.

Well, how you handled those voices?

That's what we're talking about on today's episode.

I'm Jonathan Fields.

This is Good Life Project.

My guest today is women's leadership expert, an author of Playing Big, Tara Safimor.

Fresh out of Yale and on her way to becoming a Shakespeare scholar and women's activist.

She took an unexpected turn, heading to Stanford to get her MBA, and then into a world of

business where she reconnected with something that's become her colleague.

So you recently wrote a provocative op-ed piece from The New York Times about how men

and women are criticized differently and what to do about that.

So tell me a little bit about that op-ed.

Yeah.

So it was about the fact that one that all substance who have worked, that women do,

brings praise and criticism, and that particularly for women, what their research shows is that

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