Lynn Smith

Is there a time that you've been brave before?

What does courage mean?

How can you be the friend?

And then at the end, there's a worry journal.

which we started with my children from a parenting expert that I interviewed on the podcast that I host.

And it was all the idea of writing down, like we journal as adults, but we never talked to our kids about journaling a lot, right?

I mean, some people may, it wasn't something I thought of.

So the worry journal is a way for them to take all of those worries, the brain bully thoughts and put them down onto paper so that they're not clouding their mind.

And so sort of a version of a beat your brain bully, but for our children.

So we made that a free resource on our website and we wanted it to be something that continued the conversation well after bedtime, that it was just the beginning.

This book is just the start.

I'm so glad that you asked about perfectionism because so often the executives that I work with, they're not paralyzed only by their fear.

They're paralyzed by the fear of not living up to perfectionism, which actually will always be the case because we can't be perfect.

And when I knew as a recovering perfectionist that it wouldn't serve me, that connection doesn't happen from perfection, it happens from being human.

And when I saw this pattern of not only was I experiencing it, but all of these high achievers and successful people were held back by the perfectionism, I realized, well, why is that?

When we are young, from a very young age, we are scored.

We are told to get great grades.

We are told to get first place.

I mean, go to the soccer game for a nine-year-old.

I mean, these parents are going bananas.