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Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast.

I'm Ali Fallon.

I'm your host. And on today's episode, I want to talk about fear. I know this topic gets kind of overblown and overdone, but I think there's a reason for that. It's like there's a reason that cliches are cliches. There's a reason we talk about fear all the time because fear can have such a driving force in our life.

And I think especially in our creative lives, this is something I've been thinking about so much lately. How much fear drives my decision making in my creative life in particular and how tricky it is to really access the vulnerability that is necessary in order to show up as a

creative person in order to make something from scratch and share that something with the world.

So you could, you have the option to, and I have done this for many, many years of my life. So this is not

like a moral thing. It's more just like, how do we tap into joy? You could move through your

life and just go through the motions and do the things that are expected of you and do what's asked

of you and check the boxes and buy the house and get the white pick events and get, you know,

whatever the thing is, like whatever your visual is of what a happy situation. and check the boxes and buy the house and get the white pick events and, you know,

whatever the thing is, like whatever your visual is of what a happy, successful person looks like, you can just go through the motions and do those things and check the box.

And that can be fine in one kind of a way.

But I think that deep inside of each of us is a sense that there's way, way more that we want to

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