Entrepreneurship and investing: as much as they’re about business, finance, and impact, they’re also personal growth journeys.

We can perform our best when we deal effectively with what’s going on inside of us, regardless of what’s happening around us.

A lot of this has to do with facing our fears to unleash our potential, which I wrote about recently on the blog.

It’s easy to get paralyzed by fears, concerns, and unknowns.

Yet the only way to address fears is to make them visible to yourself, focus on the ones you think matter, and take small steps to tackle them.

That way, you either find out they’re not actually real, or if they are, you can face them head on.
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We all have fears—it’s normal. As humans, our brains are hardwired for fear. All day, every day, our nervous systems are scanning for anything that could threaten our life—from a swerving car on the road, to our personal relationships, to fears at our workplace.

And it’s not even conscious all the time—we’re often unaware of how many fears are running around our mind below the surface, affecting our mood, behavior, and decisions.

I’ve been having some great conversations lately about fear.

Alla Weinberg, author of A Culture of Safety, said the number one job of leaders and managers is to learn “how to regulate their nervous system and how to continue to expand…the amount of fear and discomfort they can stand as a leader before their body goes into survival mode.”

And Jay Samit shared that the popular idea that you can overcome fear is wrong—but that what you can do is prioritize.

As we are building our startup, Nobody Studios, it’s easy to go down a rabbit hole of thinking about everything that could go wrong.

It got me thinking about how so many people fail to realize their full potential because they fail to manage their fears—thus holding themselves back, limiting their potential, or being prevented from taking the bold steps often required to achieve extraordinary results.

It seems a week doesn’t go by without another innovative investment option to get involved with.

We’ve got the explosion of the creator economy, crypto assets, and crowdfunding opportunities to invest in early-stage companies.

It’s never been easier to support entrepreneurs you admire or be involved in communities or companies you want to see in the world, contribute your entrepreneurial energy, and potentially create wealth in ways we once could have only imagined.

If you want to invest—whether that be investing in NFTs, an early-stage business through crowdfunding like what we’re doing at Nobody Studios, or something you’re curious about—here are some tips from my own experiences you might want to think about.

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