The Audacity Skill | How to Build a "Safety Net" for Your Biggest Risks

Feb 12, 2026

They explore why fear of being misunderstood and craving approval block big growth. The conversation covers building a practical safety net before public risks and ways to emotionally survive judgment. Listeners hear strategies to expand embarrassment tolerance, practice small audacious acts, and treat audacity as a skill that compounds over time.

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INSIGHT

Money Grows With Your Nervous System

Your bank account can only grow as big as the discomfort you can hold.
Money grows at the speed of your nervous system and its capacity for risk and criticism.

INSIGHT

Being Misunderstood Is Part Of Growth

Being willing to be misunderstood is a prerequisite for doing anything meaningful.
Two truths can coexist and people will misinterpret or resist your change regardless.

ANECDOTE

Trapeze Taught A Net-Check Mindset

Lori organized a couples mastermind and made everyone do trapeze to face fear.
She learned the instructor's 'net check' and falling practice gave the group confidence to climb.

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What if the only thing standing between you and your next level isn’t strategy, but your fear of being misunderstood? In this episode, I share the lesson from my monthly Audacity Call about what it actually takes to go big. I talk about why your addiction to approval is killing your dreams, how to emotionally survive judgment, and ways to build a “safety net” before you take a big public risk. Tune in to learn how to expand your embarrassment tolerance, increase your risk capacity, and start practicing audacity in ways that compound into massive results.

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HIGHLIGHTS

Why your addiction to approval is more dangerous than rejection.
The safety net strategy that helps you recover faster when things go wrong.
Why money grows at the speed of your nervous system.
Audacity is a skillset, not a personality type.
Being misunderstood is a prerequisite for doing anything meaningful.
How to increase your “embarrassment tolerance” in life.

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