The high-stakes moment is coming — the presentation, the boardroom, the pitch. The fear is already here, tonight, before you even walk in. Most advice tells you to push through or calm down. This minisode offers a different path.

What you'll hear:

  • Greg's story preparing for a board presentation in Palm Springs: the 3am mental chatter, the relentless what-ifs, and the moment he stepped outside into the desert foothills the morning of — and what quietly shifted
  • Why confidence and fear coexist — and why waiting for the fear to leave before you step forward is the wrong strategy (Wilt Chamberlain threw up before every game; his teammates got worried when he didn't)
  • The central reframe: you don't shrink the fear. You expand the container around it. Literal, physical space — sky, open air, a different scale — is one of the fastest ways to change what you're carrying into that room
  • A clip from Greg's conversation with Melita Campbell (ep43), author of The Shy Girl's Guide to Networking, on why courage comes before confidence — and why introverts who wait to feel ready keep waiting

Key insight:
Courage is feeling the fear and acting anyway. Confidence is the belief — built through experience — that you can still walk in and handle what happens next. The container expands through action. And sometimes, through stepping outside first.

Why it matters:
Introverted leaders tend to internalize pressure and rehearse worst-case scenarios in silence. That internal loop gets louder the longer you stay inside it. A literal change of perspective — space, sky, open air — can interrupt the spiral before it becomes the room you walk into.

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