A quick and honest note before the break.

Twenty episodes in, Katie is taking two intentional weeks away from the podcast — not because something went wrong, but because something is going right. She's pausing to look at what's worked, do research she's genuinely excited about, and work on something bigger that she can't wait to announce.

This is not burnout. This is the thing she keeps telling you to do.

Back in two weeks. Stronger. With something worth coming back for.

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Topics: podcast break, Performance Under Pressure update, The Nickel Collective, Katie Nickel

Tuesday named the fear. Today we do something about it.

Pause. Process. Proceed. You've heard these words before. You haven't heard them like this.

Pause is not a deep breath. It's one second and three words. Process is not resolution — it's one sentence with a blank to fill. Proceed is not going all in — it's the smallest possible action that gets you past the moment where fear makes the decision.

And then there's the thing nobody says out loud: sometimes fear is right. Sometimes the move is don't proceed. Today Katie names the difference between fear that's protecting your ego and fear that's protecting something that actually matters — and why getting that distinction wrong is just as costly as letting fear stop you entirely.

One move. The P3 Move. Under two minutes. This week.

Builds directly on Episode 19 — Getting Over Fear: Why High Performers Stay Stuck. Listen to that one first.

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Topics: overcoming fear women entrepreneurs, fear and high performers, imposter syndrome burnout, scarcity mindset women, high performer mindset, ACT therapy fear, burnout and fear, Performance Under Pressure, The Nickel Collective

You know the feeling. You had every reason not to go. You went anyway. And somehow still managed to rehearse a pitch you already knew in a parking structure while almost walking into a concrete wall.

This is an impromptu episode — it came from real life last night. And those are usually the ones that needed to happen.

Today Katie names the pressure pattern underneath fear for high performers — the Scarcity Pull — and the one word swap that changes what feels possible. Not a framework. Not a five-step plan. One word. This week.

Plus the full story. Including the concrete wall. You deserve the full story.

And a reframe for fear that might change how you talk about it starting today: fear as an emotion is a battle you will always be fighting. Fear as an alert tells you to pause, process, and proceed. Let's give it the second job. It's better at that one.

Friday: the practical moves for getting over fear. None of them are in a self-help book.

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Topics: fear and high performers, overcoming fear women entrepreneurs, imposter syndrome entrepreneurs, scarcity mindset women, burnout and fear, high performer mindset, Performance Under Pressure, The Nickel Collective