Your mission and your work in the world are important enough to move through that discomfort and show up for.

As a high-achiever, I always have a “next-level” goal of where I want to appear, who I want to connect with, and how I want to grow.

A couple of years ago, I realllly wanted to appear on the top podcast Entrepreneurs On Fire (EOFire), but I was skeeeered. It was by far the biggest show I’d ever considered approaching, and the application form on their website made it clear the competition for a spot was FIERCE.

Plus, the application required you to jump through several hoops, including creating a video, so guess what? I put it on my to-do list, and then promptly...procrastinated.

Yep. For months.

Then one day, I got reenergized, decided this was an opportunity I couldn’t afford to miss out on any more, and I was just going to do it.

I asked some friends if they knew anything about the host, John Lee Dumas, that could inform my pitch.

A friend of a friend knew him personally, and she graciously agreed to hop on the phone and tell me what she thought he’d like--to be raw and real.

That, I could do. As soon as I found that out, I wrote my 1 minute video about my worst entrepreneurial moment and recorded it, and that was the last piece I needed to be able to submit my pitch.

And then....I waited. I eagerly checked my email waaaaayyyy too many times for the first couple of weeks, hoping for a response. It was crickets. For days, weeks, and then months. To the point where I’d written it off as a “no.”

One magical day, when I was just minding my own business, an email popped in with the subject “Congratulations! You’ve been selected to appear on Entrepreneurs on Fire!”

EEEEEE! I ran through the house squealing (not an unusual appearance, but this time it was extra-loud)!

And the resulting interview, when it aired, got me multiple clients (resulting in 5 figures of revenue), multiple other interviews without having to pitch, and helped me make friends with another influencer.

I still get emails about it.

This is a story about doing it scared. Because you know it’s right for you. Because your mission and your work in the world are important enough to move through that discomfort and show up for.

What’s one way you’ve been wanting to put yourself out there but you’ve been procrastinating or holding back on?

Just by saying it out loud, you’ll bring it closer to reality!