About Jacqueline Wales
In the latest episode of Ordinary to Badass, we are joined by Jacqueline Wales. For more than 35 years, Jacqueline Wales has explored human behavior and asked tough questions to discover hard truths. She believes in the power of fearlessness to create the career and life you want. As a motivational speaker, professional coach, and author of The Fearless Factor and other books, Jacqueline has helped countless people become more empowered, confident, and resilient. Her work focuses on leaders who will dig into self-discovery, take accountability for their actions, and take responsibility for their decisions. She challenges herself daily to be better and challenges her clients to do the same—pushing boundaries and breaking through excuses to achieve results.
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The thing about Fear…
Fear can be the most powerful force in the world. It can hold us back from doing or being what we truly want and need to do with our lives. But you don’t have to be a victim of fear anymore because you are an amazing human being!
What to expect from this episode- Fearless Factor
In this thought-provoking episode, Jacqueline is extraordinary and remarkable. We get to know her through her own words, which she shares with us on being ordinary or badass, what motivated her to write her books, and even more so, today’s conversation focuses on confronting fear and being comfortable getting uncomfortable. And finally, Jacqueline gives women advice to encourage them to continue fighting for what they want in life. This is one episode you can’t afford to miss.
Let’s delve in!
Topics Discussed and Key Points:
- Be comfortable getting uncomfortable.
- Challenge the people around you who say you cannot do that.
- The first step to understanding fear is questioning it.
- You have the courage inside of you. If only you were willing to tap into that.
- Ask yourself, what can I control? What can I not control? The stuff you can’t control. Let it go.
- If you’re looking for evidence of your brilliance, ask to go to someone you love and trust and know and ask them to tell you. How do you view me?
- Resiliency is based on past experiences.
- Why Jacqueline’s third child served as the catalyst for her change.
- Where did Jacqueline find the inspiration for her first book, and what story does it tell?
- Why it’s crucial to get evidence of your fears from others in order to overcome them
- Fear is an internal alarm bell.
- The fearless factor/ how to handle fear when it shows up.
- Everything is about choice.
Timestamps
[01:05] Background information about Jacqueline Wales and what she does.
[03:02] Shout out to Mentor S.C.
[03:56] Does Jacqueline consider herself ordinary or badass?
[04:06] What led Jacqueline to give up on the ordinary?
[05:40] What Jacqueline has done to stay strong in the process of living outside of the so-called normal parameters.
[11:17] A little bit about Jacqueline, including how she met her husband, her first book, and how she earned her standing as a badass.
[13:41] What we must do to confront fear.
[20:38] How to combat fear-inducing negative thoughts
[23:06] Is fear helpful, or does it limit our potential?
[27:22] Focusing on what you can control versus what you can’t control
[29:20] What the fearless factor is.
[32:41] How to recognize when you are short-changing yourself or when the fear factor is truly a warning sign that you should be doing something.
[34:32] Things Jacqueline does to get to know herself.
[38:04] Jacqueline’s tip to encourage women who are in the arena fighting for the life that they want.
[41:18] Five takeaways from the episode.
Notable Quotes
[00:03:56] “I gave up ordinary a very long time ago, so I am definitely a badass.” [00:04:00]
[00:05:02]” I’ve always seen myself as being someone who lived outside of the so-called normal parameters. And I have got several decades under my belt now.” [00:05:13]
[00:05:16] “There’s a whole big reason why my work is all about being fearless. Because if you’re going to be fearless, you got to be a badass.” [00:05:23]
[00:06:24] “I got pregnant at the age of 19, and I didn’t know who the father was because I was pretty reckless, frankly.” [00:06:32]
– [00:08:40] “I’ve reinvented myself many, many times over my lifetime, and each time faced a lot of challenges along the way. Can I do this? Am I capable? Am I good enough? What do other people think about me? You know, all the things that hold us back and stop us from playing out loud. That was definitely the deafening sound inside of my head, too.” [00:09:04]
– [00:09:11] “Being fearless is not the absence of fear, but the courage to take that next step.” [00:09:16]
– [00:10:17] “But you’ve got to have that conviction, that confidence, to be able to say and even if the confidence isn’t there, acting as if or as someone once said, as if until you believe it or fake it, till you believe it because you prepared fake it till you make it.” [00:10:33]
–[00:10:52] “And many people fall down because they can’t imagine what a positive future looks like.” [00:10:59]
– [00:19:51] “Being fearless is not the absence of fear, but it’s the courage to take that next step. And that next step doesn’t have to be a massive one. It can be a really timely one. But it’s just something that moves the needle in a different direction.” [00:20:05]
– [00:37:31] “We’re all failing our way to success. And that failure of building our way to success is simply an expectation or decision or a choice that did not go the way that you wanted it to.” [00:37:42]
Resources
- Podcast: Ordinary to Badass
Books by Jacqueline Wales:
Susan Jeffers’s Book: Feel the Fear And Do It Anyway
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