In this episode, I sit down with Akshe Nanavati to talk about how you can use fear to improve the quality of your life.

Get ready because you are now listening to tiny leaps. Big change,

big change. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, big changes where I share simple strategies you can use to get more out of your life. My guest today is someone I met at a conference

I was recently at. I was down in Orlando, I attended Podfest 2018 and he was one of the keynote speakers and I've got to say I was just blown away with so much about him now that the topic that he spoke about was really more about getting featured in the media.

But you could tell there was this underlying tone of what he was really passionate about.

The thing he cared most about was helping people navigate their fear and how to actually use that as a weapon

to create the life you want.

So naturally, being the curious person that I am, I made sure I reached out to him at that event, made sure I connected with him, spoke with him, he was kind enough to give me a copy of his book, Fear Vana.

And I'm super excited to really dive into his process and learn more about how we can use fear because that's the number one thing that holds people back.

So without further ado, actually how are you doing man?

Doing very well. Thank you so much for having me in this show man.

Absolutely. So the book is called Fear Vana.

The Revolutionary science of how to turn fear into health, wealth and happiness.

I always like to start these interviews with what I think is the most interesting question, which for you, I have to say, how the heck

did you get the Dalai Lama to write your forward? Yeah, that was an amazing honor and just blessing as you can imagine through actually navigating a lot of fears and self doubt and belief.

It was amazing.

So I mean what happened was when I wrote the book you know I

knew I wanted about 15 to 20 endorsements from people whose lives that I mean people

who's you know whose work had really impacted me but also people whose name would obviously add to the credibility of the book.

And I remember at one point thinking, it'd be cool to have the Dalai Lama endorse it, but then I was like,

there's no way, like I'm not famous, I didn't have a platform or a website or anything at the time and

I was like why would he endorse my book and as endorsement started coming in it kind of

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