Jia Jiang, Rejecting Fear
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
As we continue our special series about bettering our minds, bodies, time, and lives - we have to talk about fear and going scared! Which is why we are fortunate to hear from one of the world's foremost experts on fear and rejection, Jia Jiang.
Listen in as Jessica and Jia talk about the crazy ways he was able to stare rejection in the face, feel the fear, and overcome!
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- Head here to learn more about Jia and his transformative Rejection Therapy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | This is your host, Jessica Honeger, founder of the social impact fashion brand |
| 0:06.8 | Nune Day Collection. |
| 0:08.4 | Join me here every week for conversations on living lives of purpose by leaving comfort and going scared. |
| 0:15.8 | Today's guest is Jajang and I met Jajang via YouTube. |
| 0:21.4 | Jajang was so afraid of rejection that he decided to put himself through rejection therapy. |
| 0:28.0 | For 100 days in a row, he was determined to be rejected every day and he videoed himself and posted it |
| 0:35.3 | all on YouTube. Now I was extremely inspired by this video because I lead a sales |
| 0:41.7 | organization of these amazing women, these |
| 0:44.8 | New Day collection ambassadors, and one of their biggest obstacles to success is |
| 0:49.8 | their fear of rejection? |
| 0:53.3 | You know what, I don't blame them because that has been a huge fear in my life as well. |
| 0:58.3 | I think all the way back to the very first Noonday collection trunk show that I hosted at my house before I knew it was going to be a business. |
| 1:06.0 | I was raising money in order to bring our third child into our home via adoption, Jack. |
| 1:11.0 | And I did not have enough money to complete that international |
| 1:15.3 | adoption. So I started this side hassle by selling all of these African-made |
| 1:19.6 | goods, but then I also was clearing out my closet. My Grandma's China was for sale. If you could buy it, it was for sale. And I opened up my home one night for a whole bunch of women and I got to do that night and I wanted to call it all off. I was so |
| 1:36.3 | sure that no one was going to come and then I was really just afraid of how |
| 1:39.7 | I was going to feel, that I was going to feel like a big loser. I was going to feel rejected. But I'm so glad I didn't call |
| 1:47.0 | it off because people did come. And that was the night where I really began to understand what courage is. |
| 1:54.5 | Courage isn't about fearlessness. |
| 1:56.9 | Courage is being scared and going anyway. |
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