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Hi I'm Michael Hyatt and this is lead to win, our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life.

In this episode, we're talking about your greatest fears

and how to face them.

It's going to be a little bit different than our usual format

as we bring you one of the sessions recorded live from our recent best year ever live

event. Today we hear from my daughter and our CEO Megan Hyatt Miller she's going to

talk about one of her greatest fears and how she faced it. As we get

started, let me plant this question in your mind. What would be possible for you if you

were brave enough to overcome your fear? Here's Megan. There was no turning back. It all

started at American Airlines at Chicago's O'Hare Airport on June 16, 2018.

I couldn't stop the tears because I had just pressed send on the most vulnerable text message of my entire life.

I admitted a humiliating and debilitating fear to my friend Michelle.

Hi Michelle, I'm sitting at the airport in Chicago headed home

and I have something that I need to talk to you about

because I'm pretty sure that you're the expert.

I need to speak publicly, but I have a secret. I'm scared out of my mind.

It began in high school when I felt my voice shake in front of the class and I could

feel the wash of anxiety come over me. I learned to dread it. It got worse when I watched one of my friends run out of a

presentation during our senior year because she was so afraid. I met her in the

bathroom as she sobbed, humiliated tears.

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