This is the Do It Scared Podcast with Ruth Suukup episode zero.

Today in this very quick introduction we are going to talk about what it actually means to Do It Scared and what this podcast is all about.

Welcome to the Do It Scared Podcast.

I'm your host, Ruth Suukup, and each week on the show we will talk about how to face your

peers, overcome obstacles and most importantly how to take action and create a

life you love. Hey guys and welcome to this brand new show. My name is Ruth

Succup and I am the founder of Living Well Spending Less Less and The Living Well Planner, as well as the founder of Elite Blog Academy and the New York Times best-selling author of five soon-to-be six books.

For those of you who already know me from either

WSL or EBA or from my weekly newsletter, let me just say that I am so

glad to have you joining me on this brand new medium. And for those of you who are

brand new and just finding me through this podcast for the first time,

welcome. We are going to have a lot of fun together.

The podcast will be officially launching on April 30th,

but in the meantime, I wanted to take a few minutes

to talk about the concept of Do It Scared, where it came from, and why it is a subject that I am so passionate about.

You see, Do It Scared is a motto that I've been using in my own life for a really long time now because although I can often look pretty

confident on the outside the truth is that on the inside I pretty much feel like I am scared all the time.

But basically do it scared is based on the idea that courage doesn't mean we are never afraid.

Instead, courage is being scared, but taking action anyway, despite our fear.

It is putting one foot in front of the other, even when we're not quite sure where the path

will lead us. It is a motto that has helped me in my own life push

past so many of my own fears and to do things I never would have believed that I was capable

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