Why Being a Beginner Hurts — And Why It’s the Only Way to Succeed
Lean With Plants
Chelsea Mae Cullen
4.9 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
What if the thing holding you back isn’t fear of failure, but fear of uncertainty?
In this episode, I break down why most people avoid starting not because they’ll fail, but because they don’t yet have clarity, confidence, or a map. You’ll learn why waiting to feel “ready” keeps you stuck, and how taking action is the fastest way to dissolve fear.
We talk about how uncertainty shows up in weight loss, habits, and relationships, and why confidence doesn’t come before action, it comes from action.
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| 0:00.0 | If you fear failing, it's probably not the mistakes that you're worried about. |
| 0:03.7 | It's the emotional cocktail that comes with uncertainty. |
| 0:07.4 | In this episode, we're going to break down what it means to get clarity and uncertainty |
| 0:12.6 | in a way that is going to allow you to take action. |
| 0:15.6 | Because I consistently see that people struggle not just because they fear failure, which is something that we've |
| 0:21.8 | talked a lot about on this podcast, but because they struggle with the feelings of being a |
| 0:26.1 | beginner at something new, the uncertainty of trying and not knowing if you're doing the right |
| 0:32.0 | thing yet. It's the thing that is going to stop people from losing weight, being able to |
| 0:35.6 | communicate in a way that enforces their boundaries, being able to create boundaries in the first weight, being able to communicate in a way that enforces |
| 0:38.0 | their boundaries, being able to create boundaries in the first place, being able to make real |
| 0:42.0 | intentional changes and learn new skill sets because they don't like the feeling of not being good yet. |
| 0:49.3 | As I was researching for this podcast, which was inspired by some of the things I've seen successful people |
| 0:55.6 | do recently. I've realized how much this fear of being a beginner and how uncomfortable that |
| 1:02.9 | feeling of not knowing whether I can do something correctly yet has stopped me from making |
| 1:10.3 | faster progress or sometimes progress even at all. |
| 1:14.5 | So this is very, very close to home for me. And what I got a lot of clarity on and a lot of |
| 1:19.2 | comfort in was that once I understood with the mechanisms that were happening in my brain, |
| 1:25.6 | actually changing has become a whole lot easier. |
| 1:28.3 | Sometimes simply understanding why our brains do certain things or why we have certain emotions can be the catalyst for us making monumental change |
| 1:37.3 | because it takes something from being scary and being unknown and being on that flight or fight mode that we are so often |
| 1:46.4 | defaulting to become almost like a tug with no teeth or a tug with no claws, whatever |
| 1:50.4 | that's saying is because we can feel those same emotions, we can experience those same |
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