So why do you think leaders hide from funding their vision?
That's good.
I feel like there's a few things.
I feel like a lot of times it's that imposter syndrome that we hear a lot about.
And I would encourage people, because I know everybody and their dog in the self-help space
will be like, this is how you overcome imposter syndrome.
But I always try to flip that and challenge that because I feel like a lot of times when
we feel like we're a fraud, when we feel like we're not qualified for what we're doing,
I feel like that's where we're supposed to be.
Because I feel like there's a lot of resistance in our life.
Everything that we see around us is telling us to live an average subpar life.
But it's facing that resistance that really makes us into who we were called and created
to be.
And I feel like leaders hide from their funding because partially it's that imposter syndrome.
And I feel like too, it's that idea of they're afraid of failing.
It's a few different things.
I feel like it's that idea of they're afraid of failing because there are some leaders
that really are afraid of failing because they lean into that idea of being perfect,
having everything together.
And when they fail at something, if they put all this funding into a vision or trying to
get all this funding into a vision, because I look at it from a space of if you're looking
at angel investors, those types of things, then all of a sudden that vision needs to
come to life essentially.
And you get into that space of, but what if I let people down?
And I feel like there's that space that they get into.
But also there's the flip side of there are some leaders out there that they're afraid
of success because sometimes when we get successful, we change as people.
And whether that's changing for the better or the worse, sometimes it can be the worst.
And we've seen some people get a level of success and they've fallen faster than they
rose to that level.
And I feel like a lot of people get stuck in that space of this because it's very easy
to think of all the what ifs.
And I've been studying cognitive behavioral therapy and there's these things called cognitive
distortions.
And basically, it's a big fancy term to say that our brain's job is to keep us alive.
So therefore, when things aren't the same and things aren't congruent with one another,
then we think it's bad and we think it's going to kill us.
So if you've lived a certain way as a leader and you've gotten to a certain level of success
for so long that this seems normal, but in order to fund a new vision, in order to fund
something bigger, then it's going to take a different you.
You're going to step into a different space and it's going to be new.
So then there's this cognitive distortion.
There's this disconnect.
There's this incongruency.
And I feel like that's a lot of what is holding leaders back from funding their vision.