Welcome to Build Your Tribe with host Shalene Johnson. Shalene promises this show will help you build your brand.

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Welcome to Build Your Tribe. And you might not know your host was once a member of a punk rock band.

It's true, I was in a punk rock band called The Darranged Few.

Now you might be wondering, was she the singer? Did she play guitar? What did she do in this punk rock band?

Nothing. We got as far as coming up with a name. None of us could sing. None of us played any instruments.

I got a guitar that year for Christmas and decided I would take lessons which I never took.

What we did is we came up with a cool name and we got cool haircuts and we made t-shirts and that's as far as our punk rock band The Darranged Few ever got.

It just seemed like a really cool thing to be in a punk rock band. And my cool haircut was I had one, this is true.

I had one side of my head shaved and the other side was long. And then I had, oh this is so embarrassing.

I had like a long braid coming out of the side that I shaved like at the bottom of it and then like a long skinny braid that we called a tail.

And then I braided it and at the bottom because this is so super punk rock. I was like, oh no one's ever thought of this.

I would put a little teeny tiny Lego man in my rubber band at the bottom of the braid. I am not kidding. I thought it was so sweet. I thought it was so cool.

And I just thought, you know, if I've got the look, if I've got the look isn't that just, isn't that the biggest part of being in a cool punk rock band?

And then the t-shirts? I tell you that because sometimes you just got to go for it. You got to just do stuff that sounds cool.

Even if you don't have it completely figured out, you got to start someplace. Don't worry about perfection.

Today's show is all about overcoming paralysis, the paralysis that we create by worrying about perfection.

So many of us stop ourselves from doing things because we feel like, well it's not right yet. I don't know enough yet. It's not perfect. I need to fix it. I need to fix myself.

I need to lose ten more pounds. I need to become the expert. I need to learn more. I need more followers. I need more expertise. I need more knowledge. I need more time.

And in our heads, we're always thinking about someone who might know more than us, someone who might be better at us, someone who might be analyzing our typos and the way we've put things together and the way we've organized things. And you know what, you're right.

People will nitpick. People will find errors. And those are usually people who they themselves have so much time to nitpick your stuff because they're not creating their own stuff because they themselves are paralyzed by perfectionism.

I can tell you everything I've ever done. And I mean everything started with a flop. When I think back on how it is, I ended up in front of so many millions of people in fitness. It kind of makes me laugh because I couldn't get hired as a fitness instructor.

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