What if you never have to feel ready to start the thing you most want?

For my 50th birthday, I dared myself to have my first big international art show, with no gallery and no idea how I'd pull it off, after a decade of quietly painting in my basement and calling it "just a hobby." Here's how it happened, and what it taught me about creating your next: you decide what you want, then take the first small step.

In this episode, you'll learn how to:

• Start the thing you want before you feel ready
• Claim your calling out loud instead of calling it "just a hobby"
• Move through the fear of being seen as your true self
• Take the first small step when you don't have a plan

You don't need a plan or permission to begin. You just need to decide what you want and take one small step toward it.

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What does it look like to dare to create something when your world has just fallen apart?

Paula Harwell lost her husband — her person, her soulmate of nearly 30 years — and in the months that followed she joined my Unleash Your Next accelerator and chose to move forward. She didn't wait to feel healed. She didn't wait to feel ready. She decided that action and healing aren't opposites.

And then Paula did something even more remarkable: she helped her son Cooper fulfill his dream of becoming a published author.

In this conversation, Paula and I talk about what it actually means to carry grief and joy at the same table, the limiting beliefs that nearly stopped the book, and what she would say to anyone who is waiting to feel better before they dare to begin.

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There's something most of us do — often quietly, without even noticing — that tells us we're not worth the life we're actually trying to build.

In this Walk With Me episode, I'm sharing a moment from a recent keynote that's been with me ever since. A woman dared herself to do something so simple it sounds almost too small to matter, and yet it said everything about the belief underneath.

I did the same thing for years with my art. You're probably doing it somewhere in your life too.

In this short, unedited episode, I’m inviting you to think about:

• Where you're quietly underinvesting in yourself and what you love
• How a single small belief shapes every choice you make without you realizing it
• What it actually means to honor your work — and yourself

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