Welcome to Episode 203 of Live Happy Now, brought to you this week by the Happy Child Summit.

I'm Paula Phelps thanking you for joining us today.

If you've ever felt like your fears were holding you back, you're not alone.

But today's guest, author Ruth Sukup, is here to explain that fear is perfectly normal.

Her new book, Do It Scared,

Finding the Courage to Overcome Adversity, Face Your Fears and Create a Life You Love,

looks at how each of us are affected by fear and why we react to it differently. She outlines seven different fear archetypes and shows how they influence our response to fear and how we can

use our understanding of those

archetypes to overcome our fears. Let's hear what she has to say. Thank you so much for being on

our show today. This is a wonderful topic and I'm really excited to have you as a guest. Thanks so

much for having me. It's great to be here. Well, you're looking at fear and we do hear so much about fear, but I don't think I've seen

addressed and scrutinized and explained as well as your book does. Can you tell us, first of all,

what inspired you to look at this topic? For sure. So I started noticing a big trend in my community actually regarding fear. And when I talk about fear,

especially in the book, Do It Scared. I am speaking specifically about the fear that's holding

us back from stepping outside of our comfort zone, from going after our big goals and dreams,

not like phobias or being afraid of airplanes or spiders or anything like that.

So two different kinds of fear. So specifically I was interested in this fear because I had so many

women coming to me and saying, you know, I hear you talking about goals, but I just feel stuck.

I feel like my whole life is passing me by or I don't know how to move forward.

And it just piqued my curiosity and it made me want to dig in and sort of figure it out,

figure out this problem.

Why are so many of us afraid to take that next step?

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