What if the reason you're not pivoting and spoting good career-opportunities has nothing to do with opportunity but everything to do with fear disguising itself a “your rational brain”?
Helena gets raw about her own resistance to returning to entrepreneurship after a hard first attempt, and what finally broke through it.
We explore:
- Why 68% of women in leadership (KPMG, 2023) cite fear of public failure as their #1 barrier to taking risks and what that means for the opportunities we're denying ourselves access to
- The perfection paralysis keeping women from applying for roles, pivoting into new industries, and betting on themselves — even when all the evidence says they should
- The concept of "misplaced loyalty" (McKinsey Women in the Workplace, 2023) and why staying loyal is costing women their careers
- How shadow work and one powerful journaling question helped Helena dismantle her limiting beliefs about sales, entrepreneurship, and what she was actually capable of
- The clenched fist metaphor: why trying to control every outcome is blocking the very opportunities you're looking for
- Why your network is your greatest asset (more than a degree, more than capital) and how to lean into community when uncertainty feels overwhelming
Timestamp, Chapter Title
| 00:00:00 | When Fear Almost Stopped Farrah, Irvine's First Brown, Muslim Mayor, From Running Again
| 00:02:00 | The Stats: How Fear Shows Up In Women's Careers
| 00:04:30 | Our Limiting Beliefs Cause: Perfection Paralysis, Misplaced Loyalty, And Obeying Rules We Didn't Make
| 00:05:00 | Why I Almost Said No To Entrepreneurship & Almost Missed The Opportunity of A lifetime Because of It
| 00:07:00 | F.E.A.R.: False Evidence Appearing Real
| 00:08:30 | The Shadow Work Question During Journaling That Changed Everything
| 00:11:00 | How To Get Honest About Your Belief System (Without Gaslighting Yourself)
| 00:13:00 | The Open Palm Visualization Method To Releasing Control In order To Receive New Opportunities |
| 00:15:30 | Community As Your Greatest Investment
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