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So why do you think leaders hide from funding their vision?

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That's good.

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I feel like there's a few things.

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I feel like a lot of times it's that imposter syndrome that we hear a lot about.

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And I would encourage people, because I know everybody and their dog in the self-help space

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will be like, this is how you overcome imposter syndrome.

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But I always try to flip that and challenge that because I feel like a lot of times when

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we feel like we're a fraud, when we feel like we're not qualified for what we're doing,

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I feel like that's where we're supposed to be.

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Because I feel like there's a lot of resistance in our life.

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Everything that we see around us is telling us to live an average subpar life.

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But it's facing that resistance that really makes us into who we were called and created

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to be.

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And I feel like leaders hide from their funding because partially it's that imposter syndrome.

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And I feel like too, it's that idea of they're afraid of failing.

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It's a few different things.

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I feel like it's that idea of they're afraid of failing because there are some leaders

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that really are afraid of failing because they lean into that idea of being perfect,

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having everything together.

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And when they fail at something, if they put all this funding into a vision or trying to

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get all this funding into a vision, because I look at it from a space of if you're looking

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at angel investors, those types of things, then all of a sudden that vision needs to

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come to life essentially.

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And you get into that space of, but what if I let people down?

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And I feel like there's that space that they get into.

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But also there's the flip side of there are some leaders out there that they're afraid

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of success because sometimes when we get successful, we change as people.

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And whether that's changing for the better or the worse, sometimes it can be the worst.

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And we've seen some people get a level of success and they've fallen faster than they

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rose to that level.

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And I feel like a lot of people get stuck in that space of this because it's very easy

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to think of all the what ifs.

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And I've been studying cognitive behavioral therapy and there's these things called cognitive

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distortions.

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And basically, it's a big fancy term to say that our brain's job is to keep us alive.

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So therefore, when things aren't the same and things aren't congruent with one another,

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then we think it's bad and we think it's going to kill us.

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So if you've lived a certain way as a leader and you've gotten to a certain level of success

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for so long that this seems normal, but in order to fund a new vision, in order to fund

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something bigger, then it's going to take a different you.

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You're going to step into a different space and it's going to be new.

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So then there's this cognitive distortion.

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There's this disconnect.

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There's this incongruency.

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And I feel like that's a lot of what is holding leaders back from funding their vision.