Your 3 step guide to stopping fear from holding you back in life
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
sophie@grace-beverley.com
4.2 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This week, we are talking about something that I genuinely think is shaping our careers, our creativity, our relationships, and our confidence more than we realise, which is the fear of being cringe.
I did a bonus episode on this over a year ago now and it got such a huge response, and since then I’ve come to genuinely think the main thing that holds most people back is not lack of talent, not lack of ideas, not even lack of discipline. It’s fear of what other people think.
So this episode is basically me unpacking all of that, the psychology behind why we care so much about what people think, why we massively overestimate how much people are paying attention to us, and the practical things that have genuinely helped me stop letting fear of perception make my decisions for me.
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CHAPTERS
0:00: Intro
1:34: The Context
7:29: Step One: Shrinking the audience
14:38: Step Two: Redefining the evidence
17:01: Step Three: Putting it into practice
19:12: Looking back
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| 0:00.0 | What is up? I'm Grace Beverly and welcome back to Working Hard, the podcast shared guide book on how to improve your own life and achieve what you actually dreamed of doing, because life's too short for boring podcasts and bad advice. |
| 0:23.9 | What is up and welcome back to working hard? Today we're talking about something that I genuinely |
| 0:27.5 | think is shaping our careers and our creativity and our relationships and our confidence |
| 0:32.7 | so much more than we realize, which is the fear of being cringe. I think at the very surface is actually |
| 0:38.5 | the fear of trying, which feels like being cringe because currently nowadays we have such a big |
| 0:43.7 | audience everywhere. This for a lot of us is a very real, paralyzing fear of looking |
| 0:48.6 | embarrassing in public, of trying something and having someone roll their eyes at you, |
| 0:56.0 | of putting yourself forward and being judged for it. I did a bonus episode on this over a year ago now and it got such a huge response |
| 1:01.3 | and since then I've come to genuinely think that the main thing that holds most people back |
| 1:06.5 | is not a lack of talent. It's not a lack of ideas, it's not even a lack of discipline. |
| 1:11.5 | It is a fear of what other people think. |
| 1:13.7 | And what makes that even sadder, I think, is that some of the people with the most to give |
| 1:19.6 | are often the ones holding back the most because they are hyper aware of how they're perceived. |
| 1:25.6 | And I really don't think we ourselves are to blame because we're |
| 1:28.3 | living in a time where everything feels very public. It is very public. It feels permanent. It feels |
| 1:33.5 | open to commentary and that makes risk feel heavier than it ever has before. So today I really want to |
| 1:38.9 | unpack why there is. I want to talk through three steps that have really helped me to actually |
| 1:43.1 | get over this fear in a very practical way. |
| 1:45.5 | I really hope that you enjoy this episode. And if you do, please don't forget to follow us on whichever |
| 1:49.3 | platform you're listening to this on. That helps us to keep this podcast free for everyone. |
| 1:57.4 | So, firstly, I want to start by talking about the idea that we're more scared to try than ever. |
| 2:02.2 | And I really don't think that's dramatic. |
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