Molly Graham

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TED Talks Daily · Forget the corporate ladder — winners take risks | Molly Graham (re-release and interview) · 9 May 2026 podcast

It taught me that not enough people talk about the emotional side of work and that so many people are experiencing the emotional human reaction to change.

And I think that's even more true today because there's so much going on in the workplace.

And there's just not enough people out there saying, hey, this shit is hard and it's emotional.

And yes, you're a professional.

And yes, you can be buttoned up and polished, but you will be a better person.

leader, a better worker, a better professional, if you are able to sort of acknowledge and manage all that humanness that comes with you to work.

So I've been thinking a lot about this lately, because I just did an interview with a woman who she says she's a scaredy cat.

And she's taught herself to be good at risk by taking daily risks.

She literally created a journal and challenged herself to take one risk every single day.

And she was talking about the fact that she pushed herself to do it.

So like she learned this set of feelings and triggers where if something was uncomfortable and something was sort of making her almost like want to run away, that she was like, that's the sign that I have to do it.

And so we had a conversation and it made me even think more deeply about when should you not?

You know, when is the discomfort telling you you shouldn't?

And to me,

Taking risks means taking on a bunch of emotions and a bunch of anxiety and a bunch of just human chaos on your side in your like internal life.

And to be able to do that well, you have to like both have a clear why.

You have to know what's in it for you and why you're putting yourself through all this kind of like pain and fear and anxiety.

There has to be something that you're

shooting for on the other side so that when you're having a bad day, you can be like, remember, we're doing this for a reason, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever that reason is.

But also, you can't do that well if you're constantly being attacked by fundamental needs.

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