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Published: Feb. 23, 2024, 6 a.m.

I remember my dad telling me that the main thing he feared in life was to have a heart attack when he was still young. His dad had had that happen and it killed him when my father was only a teenager. My dad, when I was 16, had a heart attack. It didn\u2019t kill him but I so remember the look in his eyes, one of acceptance but also one of demoralization. He lived until his early 80\u2019s but his life changed \u2013 and thus our family\u2019s life changed due to that event.

Today we\u2019re going to be talking about coping with fear, its difference from anxiety, and the unexpected gifts it has to offer.\xa0 I\u2019ll offer several stories of people I\u2019ve seen and what helped them begin to cope with their fear, whether it\u2019s fear of failure, fear of being away from family, fear like in a phobia, fears of public speaking (one of the most common), fear of death. The range of fear we can feel is immense \u2013 but in this episode, we\u2019ll focus on some of the positive aspects of fear.

The listener voicemail is from a listener who watched my YouTube video with Lewis Howes as well as seeing my and being a part of some FB Lives that I was doing at the time. What he noticed was that I seemed \u201cdifferent\u201d during the interview than I did in the FB Live session\u2026 and he\u2019d learned something positive from that. So we\u2019ll feature his comments a bit later!

Vital Links:

Excellent article by Carey Rossi on the gifts of fear

Article on 'healthy fear' in the Washington Post

My interview with Lewis Howes

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