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Scarlet Hiltabital is the author of the books, Afraid of All the Things,

you're the worst person in the world, the anxious Bible study, and other

books. She and her husband live in Nashville, Tennessee, where she loves sign language with

her three daughters, nachos by herself, writing for her friends and studying stand-up comedy

with a passion that she says should really be reserved for more important pursuits. Scarlett, thanks so much for coming on takeaways. Thank you for having me. Well, I have to admit, full disclosure, I was a little scared of mispronouncing your last name. You did it really well. I was like hiltibital, hiltibital. I just tell people it's my husband's fault and, you know, it's really hard.

There's a lot of eyes and L's and you did a great job.

What a fantastic topic this is.

To talk about fears, what are some of the most common fears people have?

I was in a little town speaking recently and it was a town that had, it was kind of on the border with a town that had a lot of gang violence and they were talking about a recent shooting in the town. It was the night before I was going to speak about fear and I was talking to these women and I, and they were talking about their teenage daughters and their anxiety and I said, oh, is it because of the violence that you guys were just talking about? And she said, oh, no, they're just worried about, you know, if they say the wrong thing in front of their friends. And I thought that was so interesting because I have found for me, and for most people I've talked to, it's a lot more common to be afraid of, like, you know, social interactions. Yeah. If he says this and then I say that

and then he's, if Kirk Cameron says something to me and I answer this wrong, then what am I going to look like on the screen, you know? And so I think that that's, I mean, I think Jerry Seinfeld said death is second to public speaking in people's fears. In terms of people's fears. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? I think I spent most of my teenage years just being afraid of embarrassing myself. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's the big one. What's another big one? I think you can be afraid of anything. I mean, I know we're going to get to Jesus. But if you take your eyes off of Jesus for one second and look out at the world, it's terrifying.

So everything is the answer.

I think everything is scary.

You write in your book that some of your fears

stemmed from your childhood.

What are some of those things?

Well, I had a weird childhood.

I was thinking before I came on your show,

you grew up in Hollywood, but you were

working, you know, you were sitting behind the cameras, and I was the daughter of an actress,

so I was raised in the wings, and I was just kind of observing the world from this very unique

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