S1E16 How to be a leader: The role of courage

"I use that to guide me quite a lot because I know courage is where my growth happens."

I'm a big advocate for courage. In fact, one of my mantras is courage over comfort. And I use that to guide me quite a lot because I know courage is where my growth happens.

So what is courage? The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as the ability to control your fear in a dangerous or difficult situation.

One of the things I hear again and again from my clients when they first start with me is the thing holding them back from a leadership role is because they don't have enough confidence. And what I've learned is that the real thing that's missing is how to be courageous. 

In this episode, you will learn the following:

1. What is courage? The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as the ability to control your fear in a dangerous or difficult situation. How does that show up at work?

2. What is the opposite of courage? The opposite of courage is the idea of running away from fear. It's not doing anything that might even result in fear.

3. How can we get courage? I share two ways I use to get the courage to do things even when I'm feeling fear.

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Chapter Summaries:

[00:00:02] - This week on Her Leadership coach, Rochelle talks about courage. Rochelle is an advocate of courage over comfort and uses it to guide her daily life. 

[00:00:56] - Courage is the ability to control your fear in a dangerous or difficult situation. In the Facebook group this week, Beverly talked about courage for leadership around making decisions and sticking to them. Tracey added that every step and act in life takes some level of courage. To Rochelle, courage is taking action in spite of fear.

[00:09:41] - Rochelle worked out loud talking about how it was taking courage for her to post in a public work forum, and mentioning if she could help one person then it was worth it.

[00:18:08] - Another tool I use to find my courage is curiosity. When I'm procrastinating and I start to feel something, I get curious and start thinking about it. This shifts my thoughts and allows me to move through the fear to the point I can take action.

[00:20:21] - If you want to talk more about courage, join the Women and Leadership Facebook group and get the stop waiting for confidence course there. If you got value out of this episode, please share it with others.

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

S1E1 The 3 key pillars to getting promoted at work

S1E7 Trying new things. Why we fear them and how to overcome that.

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