Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,

The Rise of Fear Culture and how to better understand and embrace courage with Margie Whirl.

So the topic is courage and my guest defines it as consciously choosing to act in the presence of fear and potential risk, real or perceived.

And she cites it as a learnable skill. So Dr. Margie Worrell, she's a five-time best-selling author and Forbes columnist and the author of a new book called The Courage Gap,

Five Steps to Braver Action. That's what got my attention on the topic and I wanted to look at it

because I think like many, we have baggage around it and we don't really benefit from the gravity

of what it can do for us courage.

So this is not some look at monumental feats of so-called bravery with life-threatening circumstances.

That's not what most of us are encountering every day.

This is the everyday fears that we seem to be failing from culturally.

So I've been thinking about our current, what I look at as

fear culture, like a toxin in the air, something in your home or office that you don't detect,

and it's slowly poisoning you and you grow steadily more sick and don't know why. I think that's

what fear is doing to us and lack of courage. So as you'll hear me discuss with

Margie, throughout history, humankind was only exposed to a couple fearful issues per day,

if that. And today, as you know, we're flooded with infinite fears from around the globe and even

the galaxy. Well, we can't eradicate fear and we shouldn't,

but we sure can decrease it a lot. So we talk about that some. And then we can be conscious and

choose to be courageous, which again is not something that we do once we've overcome eradicated

fear. It's something we do

while we are still afraid. So I just really enjoyed and benefited from this talk with Margie. I think

you'll see we really resonated and it helped open up my understanding of both fears, as she said,

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