#181 – Geoff Sober: From Fear of Failure to Flying High
Enter the Lionheart
Lawrence Dunning
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Geoff Sober came from anything but an entrepreneurial family, always fearing risk and choosing the safe path; after his future as a professional soccer player was derailed by injury, he started analyzing just what roadblocks in his life was stopping him from achieving his full potential.
Geoff’s book “From Fear of Failure to Flying High” is to help anyone who still hasn’t achieved what they would like to, in life.
0:00: Geoff’s Background and overcoming the Fear of Failure
5.00: Overcoming family trauma through generations
12.00: Why most people who attend personal development seminars don’t do the work
15.30: Importance of a coach
21.00: Why all human suffering is a disconnect between how much we love ourselves
25.40: Overcoming the “inner critic”
29.00: What we can learn from a child’s intuition
35.00: What Geoff learned from his first successful business
43.00: Finding Happiness and realizing he had “made it”
52.00: Myths of Money and how human nature always wants more
57.00: What we get from the pursuit of money
Connect with Geoff: www.geoffsober.com
Until next time, love and good vibes.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Happiness is, acceptance of what is. |
| 0:04.7 | And we all know there's going to be ups, there's going to be downs, there's going to be U-turns, there's going to be roadblocks. |
| 0:11.4 | That's just life. |
| 0:13.2 | But the acceptance of what the universe brings us and our ability to just stay still within that? To me, that's happiness. |
| 0:21.6 | A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts. |
| 0:39.3 | Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your host, Lawrence Dunning. |
| 0:43.3 | Jeff, it is such a pleasure to hear that British accent. |
| 0:47.1 | Good to see you, Lawrence, and thank you very much for having me here today. |
| 0:51.6 | And yes, I hope I give you a little flavor of home you see it |
| 0:55.8 | well this is Jeff you wrote a book called from fear of failure to flying high and I think |
| 1:02.9 | that's such a beautiful title because so many I see it in myself I've had to overcome a lot of fear |
| 1:09.0 | and actually I went deep down the path of martial |
| 1:12.2 | arts. One of the reasons is I wanted to face my fears. And when I was fighting, I realized there |
| 1:17.2 | was two different types of people that would fight. There would be the people like me that treated |
| 1:21.9 | it like a sport and they were scared. They didn't want to do it, but they knew if you do it, |
| 1:26.2 | you'd have some self-growth. |
| 1:30.3 | And then you have the people that if they weren't fighting professionally, they'd be fighting on a Saturday night after a few beers at the pub. So you have those two different things, |
| 1:35.2 | but I just think that the concept of fear holding people back is such a fascinating. |
| 1:40.0 | Just everyone has to deal with a certain elements of fear in their lives and overcoming it. |
| 1:44.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:45.5 | And I discovered, through a lot of personal growth and self-development work, |
| 1:50.9 | I discovered that I actually was the result of a family pattern |
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