How to Get Over Fear and Build Your Dream
4/28/202628 min
This is for anyone who feels stuck in something that you don't want to be doing.
About five years ago, I made the huge leap to sell my successful company (which I had been building for 10 years) to start a whole new career. It's been the best decision of my entire life but making the jump wasn't easy.
In this episode, I share two things that will change your life and allow you to go after your dream. To go from being stuck in something in a life that you don't love to having the courage to take a risk on your dreams.
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First 90 secondsSumi Krishnan· Host0:00
Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Dream Life Club podcast, where we share insights and inspiration for creatives and entrepreneurs chasing a dream. This is Sumi, and if you don't know me, I built a 200-person company in DC, and then decided to leave all that behind to follow my dream of being a pop music artist in LA. Today, I want to talk to you about what it really takes, I'm talking the inside game, to overcome fear and build your dream. It's an identity shift. It's a new lifestyle. There are things that we have to do to overcome what's blocking us if we're stuck in a place where we don't want to be anymore. So story time. About five years ago, everyone thought that I was having a major breakdown. I had, for the p- past 10 years, been building a very successful company. On the outside, I was winning all the awards. I was getting major speaking opportunities. I was, you know, getting press opportunities. I had respect and recognition in the industry, and I was doing good work. Like, I am proud of and I, I was proud of and I'm still proud of all we did during that time. We developed, um... We developed something that helped, w- as I say, catch bad guys with the Department of Justice. Um, we were involved with their international drug trades unit, and we were, we were helping them process information and data. Um, similarly for, uh,