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The Daring Author
The Daring Author
Self-Belief: The Missing Ingredient in your Author Success Recipe
Ever caught yourself in an endless cycle of strategizing, planning, and searching for the perfect roadmap to success? You're not alone. Welcome to a transformative exploration of why obsessing over "the how" might be the very thing holding you back from the creative breakthrough you've been seeking.
Throughout my journey as an author since 2018, I've discovered something counterintuitive yet profoundly liberating: the magic happens when you let go. Control—that persistent need to know exactly how you'll reach six figures, publish ten books, or nail your marketing strategy—silently suffocates creativity. The moment I stopped demanding precise answers and started trusting my intuition, everything shifted.
This isn't about abandoning discipline or strategy altogether. Rather, it's about understanding that no marketing plan, however brilliant, can overcome self-doubt. When readers encounter your work, they don't just experience your words—they feel your energy. Do you truly believe in what you've created? Does your confidence radiate through every page and promotional effort? Or are you apologetically offering your creative gifts, secretly doubting their value? The difference is palpable.
My greatest investments haven't been in expensive courses or complex strategies—they've been in myself. In mentors who helped me reconnect with my authentic voice. In creating space to fall deeply in love with my life and journey. This inner alignment has proven more powerful than any external tactic.
Embrace curiosity instead of control. Wake up each day as a slightly different version of yourself, constantly evolving. When triggers arise, get curious about them rather than reactive. Journal, explore, discover. This path of self-discovery strengthens the confidence that ultimately sells books far more effectively than any marketing formula ever could.
Ready to transform your creative journey? Lean back into trust. Co-create with the universe. You'll discover that when you let go of controlling every detail, you don't just reach your destination—you fall in love with the entire journey. Your readers will feel it too.
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welcome back to another chapter of the daring author podcast. Today's episode is all about f the how, trust and fall in love with your life. Every time I've obsessed over the how, I've slowed myself down. The how is control, and control kills magic. It kills the magic of you, the magic of what you are creating. And the more I let go of the how and the more that I co-create with just taking that inspired action.
Speaker 1:Taking that action when I get the downloads of ideas and I'm not caught in my mind and I'm caught in that, okay, I need to know the exact roadmap. I need to know how I'm going to achieve this. I need to know how I'm going to get to the six figures, seven figures, all of that stuff. I need to, you know, have this strategy. That is going to be like the bee's knees and it's going to be the how and it's going to be all of these things and it's a lot of overwhelm, it's a lot of like, but I need to know the answers and I should be doing this and I should be in this place and I should be creating five TikToks a day. I should be in my emails, creating and sending one email a day. I should be in my Patreon and posting this many things and I need to write this bonus in and I need to write these books and I need to write 10 books, holy shit, oh my God, like even saying that'm my heart's going a little bit faster and I'm getting in this like yeah, that's a lot and I am not signing up for that anymore. And story time this year has been the biggest breakthroughs that I have had in my author journey. Since I published my first book in early 2018, this has been the biggest breakthrough this year is being like fuck the hell, fuck the hell. I am leaning in, and the biggest investments that I've made this year and had has been in myself, has been in mentors that have helped me remember who I am and has been in myself, in feeling good, in investing time, space, freedom to live my life and to trust and fall in love with my life. And this might sound completely like you want to switch this off right now because you're like but no, I need to know the how, I need the roadmap. You know I need the marketing. I need the marketing roadmap to my success and I'm sorry, I'm not going to give that to you until until you have worked on yourself and you have fallen in love with yourself on a deeper level and you have trust and faith in your abilities.
Speaker 1:You know a lot of people say and I've seen a lot of posts of like, oh, I've got a really good book, but it's just not making sales and it's just like I need to know how. I mean I need to, I need to know the right method to move forward. And I'm going to tell you the methods. The strategies won't work unless you have trust in yourself. You have faith. You know how amazing you are. You know that your abilities are next level.
Speaker 1:You don't even second guess yourself. You have confidence in your books. You have confidence in your words. You have unwavering faith and trust that your books will hit the people that it needs to. You don't second guess.
Speaker 1:You don't read over all of your reviews of your books and then get in a state of mind oh, maybe it's not good enough. Oh, I'm not good enough. Oh, I'll never have success. Oh, I'll never be a best-selling author because I'm just not good enough. I'm not good Like all these things that you say. That's what you're going to get. That is and that's hard to hear and trust me, I've been through that of like being in this, but I need to know the how, and I need to. I need to have success. I need to be in this, but I don't believe in my books, I don't believe in my words. I don't know how I wrote this, I just did it. I don't know, I'm not that good, but you know, I just I wanted to write and like all these excuses, that if somebody come up to you and asked you and was like, oh, you know, tell me about your books. You know it's just about a girl and a dragon, and this sort of thing happens and you know, yeah, but maybe you should read some other book because it's not that good. Like, if we come from that, like, would you read that? Would you read it if I come across in that way and was like trying to tell you about my book, but I just I didn't believe in it and I couldn't even articulate what the book was about and how amazing it actually is.
Speaker 1:If I come from this place where I'm in this energy and where it's just like and you feel it, you can feel it when somebody fully believes in themselves, when they fully believe in their words, when they fully believe in their magic. You feel that. You feel that when they're on a TikTok, when they're recording a video and they're telling you about the book because it means so much to them, it has so much depth, and you can feel the emotion and you can feel the energy of that. They believe in their work, they believe in their magic, they believe in all of that and that is what is going to sell a book Having confidence in yourself, in your ability, in what you have created, what you are creating, bringing them along on that journey is going to cause that effect. That is having trust and building that.
Speaker 1:And it is a game. It is a game of life and up-leveling. The more you up-level and you won't even get to a stage where you're like, okay, I've done enough work and I'm like, constantly, every single day, I'm learning more about myself. I'm like waking up every day a different version of me and that is how I want to live. I don't want to be the same version of me and that is what I. That is how I want to live. I don't want to be the same. I want to like up, level and have new ways of thinking and experiencing and exploring and like going down down to the beach and just people watching, and then like discovering and like being curious curiosity has been a big one for me of like just being curious on, like when I get triggered by something or when I read something online and I have certain thoughts about it, and leaning into that and being like okay, let's get curious about this, let's unpack this, let's unpack this in my journal.
Speaker 1:Of like, okay, why did? Why did I feel that way? What am I feeling? And like just getting curious about it. And the more that we can do that, the more we can like let go and let go of those layers and have more confidence in ourself and in our brand. And this is what can build that momentum really trusting and falling in love with your life. Lean back into trust, lean into it like fully right now, and this is what is going to help you move forward, because when you co-create with the universe, you don't just get the goal, you get a life you're actually in love with along the way, and that that is where the magic is. Fuck the hell. Lean into your magic, trust and fall in love with your life and you will thank me later.