Molly Graham

And like,

you know, I spend a lot of my days working with leaders that are both leading teams through this, but experiencing it themselves.

And I was just talking to someone who was like, I got laid off from my last job.

And it's left me terrified.

You know, basically, you tell me, you know, to challenge my boss, you tell me to push back, like you tell me to like, fight these fights and try to build a better company.

And I want to and I'm also like,

What if I get fired?

And so a couple of things.

On the risk-taking point, I would just say there are big risks and there are small ones.

And actually, a lot of my early risks were inside the same company.

They were just pushing myself to say yes to an opportunity that I was like, I don't know if I can do this.

So it doesn't always have to be leaving a job.

It doesn't always have to be starting a company or going back to school.

It can be like, this makes me uncomfortable to lead this meeting.

This makes me uncomfortable to give this person feedback.

Somebody asked me if I want to do the presentation or give the speech or take on a new project, and I don't know if I can do it.

Those are all great risks that just start to build a muscle of building tolerance for

discomfort and and risk and and also proving to yourself that you can do things that you didn't know you could do which is actually like a really powerful muscle and one that comes in handy you know when i like you get pushed off the stairs right if you get laid off or fired which happens to a lot of people but for me and i said this to this leader who was talking to me about the trauma from her layoff like

There's a lot of stuff you can't control in the job market right now.

You know what I mean?