15: Turning Anxiety into a Superpower | Embracing Fear and Failure

02/16/23 • 11 min

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Anxiety brings a powerful energy that can be difficult to manage.

It can make you doubt your worth, your ability to start something new, and your capacity to succeed.

So how do you navigate this energy and use it to your advantage?

Lean into and embrace your anxieties and fears. Give them the attention they deserve and break down what each of them truly means to you.

Are they true? Do they exist right now? And if they are true, what’s the worst that can happen?

By being curious with your anxieties, you can tap into the wisdom that's locked within them, and use that to refine and improve your life.

Here are the key takeaways from this episode:

2:21 - Anxiety can build up because of low self-worth and feeling like you don’t deserve the good things in life

3:06 - When experiencing anxiety of not being worthy, ask yourself “What do I deserve?”

5:00 - Get intimate with failure because failure is feedback

6:09 - Look for how things can be better over what went wrong,

6:45 - It’s not about the start and the end, but the journey and process in between

9:23 - When you're anxious, ask yourself, “Is this true? Is this for me? And if this is true, and this is for me, what is the very worst that could happen?”

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I'd love to hear from you. What about this episode did you / not enjoy? What would you like more of? This podcast is made for you!

Anxiety brings a powerful energy that can be difficult to manage.

It can make you doubt your worth, your ability to start something new, and your capacity to succeed.

So how do you navigate this energy and use it to your advantage?

Lean into and embrace your anxieties and fears. Give them the attention they deserve and break down what each of them truly means to you.

Are they true? Do they exist right now? And if they are true, what’s the worst that can happen?

By being curious with your anxieties, you can tap into the wisdom that's locked within them, and use that to refine and improve your life.

Here are the key takeaways from this episode:

2:21 - Anxiety can build up because of low self-worth and feeling like you don’t deserve the good things in life

3:06 - When experiencing anxiety of not being worthy, ask yourself “What do I deserve?”

5:00 - Get intimate with failure because failure is feedback

6:09 - Look for how things can be better over what went wrong,

6:45 - It’s not about the start and the end, but the journey and process in between

9:23 - When you're anxious, ask yourself, “Is this true? Is this for me? And if this is true, and this is for me, what is the very worst that could happen?”

Resources:

If you enjoy this episode, please SHARE, RATE and REVIEW the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

About Me:

Learn more about my coaching method and join my emotional healing, mindfulness, and music community at melissaindot.com.

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14: Turning Anxiety into a Superpower | Using Pattern Interrupt Prompts

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Fear is a primal instinct that keeps humans alive and surviving.

But for some, fear often leads to constant and overwhelming anxiety that ends up hindering growth, peace, and happiness.

So how do you face fear without using quick fixes and hacks that only bring temporary relief?

The only way out is through. Embrace and welcome fear and be curious with it. Ask your fears what they are here for, how can feeling these fears serve you, and what wisdom lies behind them.

You can use fear as a tool to access a higher level of wisdom, as well as learn how to tap into your internal resources for emotional healing.

By getting curious and tapping into your inner wisdom, you can learn to navigate fear and anxiety in a positive way.

Here are the key takeaways from this episode:

1:51 - Fear is a natural part of life and is wired into the brain for survival

2:33 - Learn to lean into your fears and get curious, ask it questions

3:04 - Using quick fixes to relieve anxiety make us lose control of ourselves

3:41 - Ask your anxiety “What are you here for? How is it that you can serve me?”

6:09 - Ask yourself what feels safe right now and focus on that

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16: The ADHD Entrepreneur's Journey: Ari Scott's Resilience & Transformation

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People with ADHD have the most creative ideas and problem-solving abilities that can create changes and impact this world positively.

Unfortunately, society operates on a fixed structure. Because of that, many brilliant ADHD entrepreneurs and business owners are not given equal spaces and opportunities to thrive.

Ari was misdiagnosed as a child and faced numerous adversities along the way. Eventually, she carved her unique path to discover her true purpose.

Being a successful entrepreneur herself, Ari is on a mission to revolutionise traditional business systems and empower 100,000 ADHD-owned businesses to use their creative problem-solving abilities to make a global impact.

Join me and Ari as she shares her story from being misdiagnosed and labelled as a “problem child” to finding her niche in the business world, and leveraging her ADHD-driven creativity and problem-solving skills to create effective solutions.

Here are the key takeaways from this episode:

1:58 - Ari shares how and why she was called into this great mission

2:46 - People with ADHD are creative and have brilliant ideas that are intrinsically empathy-driven

6:26 - The world is not designed for the ADHD mind because the ADHD mind is designed to change the world

8:22 - Ari talks about her solution: Redesigning the traditional systems of business to align with ADHD brains

10:39 - The impacts of being misdiagnosed as a child and not having access to the right tools and management

22:10 - How to plan a business when you have ADHD

23: 59 - The ADHD Podcast and how to become an ADHD business coach

About the Guest

Ari Scott is an ADHD Business Coach & Consultant, Entrepreneur, Writer, Influencer, Speaker and ADHD Advocate and she’s on a mission to build 100,000 ADHD-owned businesses.

She supports ADHD entrepreneurs in redefining their business journey in alignment with the neurodiverse entrepreneurial experience.

Ari has connected with, coached, and supported thousands of ADHD entrepreneurs and proven that when given the right support, the ADHD mind creates the incredible, impactful and life-changing businesses the world needs now more than ever.

Learn more about Ari through her website adhdinbiz.com. You can reach her by sending her an email at [email protected]

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Fearlessly Curious - 15: Turning Anxiety into a Superpower | Embracing Fear and Failure

Transcript

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A total failure, and the whole point is that we don't push away these thoughts and these feelings. Instead, we lean into them and give them the attention that they are, oh, so deserving and worthy of. Because when we give them attention, then we get to really listen in for the wisdom that's locked in them. Break down what is failure to you. What does it look and feel like? What happens beyond failure? Because the truth is failure is feedback.

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