Matt Willis: Fearing Failure, Self-Sabotage and Relapse
On The Mend
High Performance
4.9 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
What if failure was the key to success?
In this solo episode, Matt Willis opens up about his own fear of failure, from the nerves of launching a new season to the deeper anxieties that have shaped his life. Drawing on Simon Sinek’s ideas and his own lived experience, Matt explores why fear of failure is universal, how it can hold us back, and how it can also drive us forward.
With raw honesty, he shares practical ways to reframe failure as growth and explains why embracing it is essential for creativity, resilience, and real progress.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to know who's coming up next? Hit follow wherever you get your podcast and you'll be the first to find out. |
| 0:09.8 | Hey guys, I'm Matt Willis and welcome back to On the Men. This is the podcast where we look back to move forward. |
| 0:16.6 | Season three is among us and it means a lot to me. It means a hell of a lot to me this podcast. |
| 0:22.7 | I want it to work more than anything, but I'm scared to. I am pumped to be back, but I'm not a |
| 0:28.9 | guru. I'm learning just like you. And this episode is all about that feeling, fear of failure. |
| 0:35.5 | Before we dive in, I just want to say, guys, thank you so much |
| 0:38.3 | to spending this time with us. It means so much to us that you guys tune in and listen. It really |
| 0:43.4 | is exactly what this is about. You know, it's all about you. So thank you so, so much for tuning in. |
| 0:48.9 | The best way to stay connected is to hit follow. You know, I've heard another podcast, |
| 0:54.3 | remember to hit follow, you know, I'm heard on other podcasts. Remember to hit follow? |
| 0:55.5 | You know, I'm like, why do they keep banging on about that? |
| 0:58.1 | And the reason is it helps the podcast so much. |
| 1:01.3 | Like, it allows us, the more people that follow the podcast, the bigger the podcast gets, |
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| 1:12.0 | So if you can, |
| 1:19.3 | right now, please it follow. It really helps us out. Okay, so today I'm talking about fear of failure. |
| 1:25.5 | You know, this is a biggie, a massive one. And it's showing up for me right now. You know, |
| 1:30.0 | brand new season, big hopes, feel a bit of pressure. You know of pressure you know we got a new studio we got a whole new team you know it's like we are we are cooking right now and it's |
| 1:36.2 | uh i don't know with that you should be kind of like oh yeah we're killing it you know but like |
| 1:41.7 | i don't know like there's this other voice that goes oh you know don't don't muck up you know, but like, I don't know, like there's this other voice that goes, |
| 2:05.2 | oh, you know, don't, don't muck up, you know, who are you to be doing this? You know, all those kind of things that come in. It's really, really, it's really strong sometimes. And I have learned different ways of dealing with that feeling. And today we're going to be talking about it. But before we do, we're going to get into what we do every week, which is gratitude list. |
| 2:12.1 | So my gratitude list is three things I'm grateful for. Do you know what? I'm very grateful. I got called into my kids' school, right? They emailed me and asked me to go in and do a performance workshop with some of the |
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