Chapter 5: Learn, Unlearn & Relearn - The thinking that got you here won’t get you there
Live Brave with Dr Margie Warrell
Release Date: 10/20/2021
123 - Breathe in Courage: Transform the psychology of fear into the physiology of courage
Live Brave with Dr Margie Warrell
Sweaty hands. Butterflies in the belly. A total sense of paralysis. Let’s face it—fear is deeply physical. In this episode, I explore another key concept from The Courage Gap: how to reset your fear at the physiological level. Fear isn’t just in your mind—it embeds in your body. Understanding this unlocks a powerful pathway to cultivating courage and harnessing the full power of your physical presence. I share a personal experience from 2020 when COVID-19 tilted my world totally off its axis, triggering my fear and leaving me awash with anxiety. While very humbling, it...
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122 - Rescript what keeps you stuck, stressed, or living TOO safe!
Live Brave with Dr Margie Warrell
All behavior is belief-driven. Finding the courage to take actions that would strengthen our relationships and improve our future requires examining the narrative we’re living in—including the stories we tell ourselves. These stories can fuel doubt, shrink confidence, and keep us stuck in place. This episode shares why the price tag of our self-protective stories is never worth the payoff and how you can rescript your narrative to connect to the courage lying dormant within you. If you ever feel defensive, insecure, frustrated with your situation, or more anxious than you’d like to be,...
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121 - Focus on what you want not what you fear. Pursue the uncomfortable good!
Live Brave with Dr Margie Warrell
Ever found yourself going down a rabbit hole of ‘What ifs?’ What if I mess this up? What if it all goes to hell in a handbasket? What if I just don’t have what it takes? What if ….? You’re not alone. Your brain isn’t wired to focus on the positives. It’s wired to focus on the negatives - on what you don’t have or don’t want to happen. Yet dwelling on deficits siphons your confidence, feeds your worries, shuts down your ability to find solutions, narrows your vision, and keeps you stuck in ruts - of thought or action - that you are wholly capable of climbing out...
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120 - Make 2025 your year for living bravely!
Live Brave with Dr Margie Warrell
As we step into a new year, many set resolutions — but let’s face it, the vast majority will fall by the wayside before February. This episode kicks off the new year with a new series to celebrate my new book ! Tune in as I guide you to set a bold vision for your year ahead and embrace discomfort as the key to closing the gap between where you are now and where you’d like to by year end. If you’re not okay to settle, then you need to step forward amid the unknowns. Are you ready? Let’s dive in! LINKS:
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119 - My brother Frank: Be the captain of your life, not captive of your circumstance
Live Brave with Dr Margie Warrell
This episode was recorded during my brother Frank's visit—a journey of over 10,000 miles from Australia. What makes this journey truly remarkable is that Frank, living with paraplegia, approaches travel with a 'can do' mindset that sets him apart. In a world often focused on limitations, Frank's determination to embrace new adventures despite his life-altering injury embodies the 'live brave' message of this podcast. Frank’s resilience and refusal to let his condition define him serve as a powerful testament to the human spirit. I hope his story will inspire you to be captain of your life,...
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118 - Amy Edmondson: Are you risking enough intelligent failure? Decoding failure to progress faster
Live Brave with Dr Margie Warrell
Not only does nobody enjoy failure, but we also often fail to learn from it, resulting in failing twice! Building on my previous podcast episode with Amy Edmondson (Episode 116), Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, we dive into her latest book, Right Kind of Wrong, and unpack the science of failing well. This approach helps us avoid the tripwires that often crush courage, limit learning, and expose entire enterprises to greater risks. Learning how to risk more intelligent failure will not only propel you forward more quickly but also spare you the...
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117 - Kirstin Ferguson: Leadership is a series of moments requiring both head and heart
Live Brave with Dr Margie Warrell
Leadership isn’t about position or title. It’s about the decision we make, moment by moment, to show up… with head and heart and be a force for good in the lives of others. In my conversation with Kirstin, we discuss her new book Head & Heart and how you can be the leader the world needs you to be. We talk about staying self-aware (easier said than done!), being humble, having the courage to say sorry and to bring both your head and heart to making each moment better for others. No small task, but one we’re all called toward in some form.
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116 - Amy Edmondson: Psychological safety de-risks candor and fuels courage.
Live Brave with Dr Margie Warrell
"Unsafe cultures endanger everyone," says Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor at Harvard Business School. Amy and I unpack why courage and psychological safety are two sides of the same coin, and why fostering psychologically safe workplaces requires people to trust that the pay off for courage is worth the pitfalls. Regardless of your position, making people feel safe to be honest and vulnerable with you – including sharing things you may not enjoy hearing - is vital for any meaningful relationship to flourish, personally or professionally. Check out Amy’s book,
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115 - The Integrity Deficit: Do what’s right and clean up your slip-ups
Live Brave with Dr Margie Warrell
You like to think of yourself as a person with integrity, right? Yet, doing what’s right is easier said than done. In a world where examples of poor character are easy to find, it’s easy to rationalize cutting corners or telling “little white lies". However, we often underestimate the cost of compromising what we know, deep down, is the right thing to do. This episode is a siren call to the highest angels of your nature, guiding you in cleaning up any fractures to your integrity, in your relationships and in your life. If you want to move forward lighter, more rooted to your deepest...
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114 - General Stanley McChrystal: What we get wrong about risk that makes us more vulnerable
Live Brave with Dr Margie Warrell
Stanley McChrystal spent his military career navigating the real and deadly risks of combat, finishing a four-star General in Afghanistan overseeing 147,000 soldiers. He has walked the path of courage in ways most of us never will, concluding that the greatest source of risk lays in us - in how we identify, assess, respond and learn from risk. We cover a lot of ground in our conversation – from the need for more moral courage in leaders today to raising resilient kids. If you want to navigate risk better and lead smarter, this episode is for you. EPISODE LINKS:
info_outlineWe all like to think that our way of viewing the world - and the people, problems and possibilities in it - is the right way. In fact, we all have what’s called a ‘confirmation bias’ that drives us to look for evidence to support our existing beliefs and behaviours and ignore or discount those which contradict them. Yet only when you are willing to say "I don’t know" or "I could be wrong" and to actively seek out alternative perspectives that challenge your own best thinking can you unlearn what you think you know and relearn what you need to know. So if you keep finding yourself struggling with the same problems or you feel like you’re not achieving the results you want, maybe it’s because you’re operating on an outdated or incorrect mental map. In which case, this episode which draws on Chapter 5 of Stop Playing Safe is for you!
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