Dreams Can Be DAUNTING - How to move forward through the fear #findingbrave

For anyone listening who has big dreams, you know, I want to be a journalist, a broadcaster, an author, a speaker. You know, I work with a lot of people with big dreams, and sometimes what drives those dreams— yes, many of us want to make a big difference, many of us want to make that, you know, architect of change, but sometimes we're focused on numbers and metrics and how we're gonna get over and what it looks like. And you were sharing that in this entire journey, you had a different approach. Can you just start there for us before we talk about being 40? Because I think it's instrumental and educational for people about ways to remain sane and tethered to who you really are in a process of when you're coming forward. Will you talk a little bit about that?

Tethered to who you are. May I steal that right now, Kathy Caprino? See, look at journalist. Yes, you may. That's profound. That is so true. That's what's kept me going in this process. And I have to say, this process of writing a book has been incredibly beautiful and incredibly challenging for me. And I'm proud to say that because I have dedicated my career to words, to storytelling, to writing. And so when I, you know, as a journalist, a TV journalist and a print journalist, and I've worked with words for so long and I've helped other people too with their stories, writing their stories for them. And when it came to this project, it was daunting. I thought, oh my gosh, this is gonna come easily, right? Because I've been writing for so long. It was really, really, really daunting. So I feel in many ways that was maybe a gift from the start, the fact that it was daunting to write something in its totality about my beliefs and my desires, even though it is a deeply reported journalistic book that includes other women's stories. But it's really anchored in my story. So the fact that it was daunting, I think, was also maybe humbling from the beginning. And it brought me back to the basics of why am I doing this book?