Tara Mohr

But the problem is the part of us that's really only concerned with that emotional safety does not care if we have fulfilled or exciting or self-expressed day in our lives.

It only cares about that comfort.

So, yeah, it is a stay in the comfort zone, stay in the safe zone kind of voice, but it's very overreactive and misleading in that.

So I love to just take us back to like, what is fear?

Bring it on home.

Because when we're in fear, it actually hijacks our brain such that we're definitely not thinking about what am I experiencing now?

What is that?

So fear is just our physiological response, our body and mind response to something we perceive as a threat.

So until you perceive something as a threat, you're not going to feel fear.

And so the question for each of us, for some of us, that fear might be more in our early in our career, more later.

It's what feels threatening to me and why.

For a lot of women, it is visibility is threatening.

power is threatening because maybe I got the message people don't like powerful women.

Maybe just change from what I grew up with feels threatening because it feels like leaving home in a way that I'm uncomfortable with.

Yes.

So it's whatever evokes that.

And sometimes I talk to more senior women who say, you know, I had these fears.

I kind of got over them.

But now, now that maybe I'm at the board of directors table, now that stakes are higher, there's a new level of

Well, I feel like there's a spiritual reason and then there's a cultural reason.