⭐ Courage Before Confidence: Why Fear Is the Doorway to Your Next Level

If you’re waiting to feel confident before you take the next step in your life… you might be waiting forever.

The truth is that confidence doesn’t come first — courage does.

In this solo episode of Worthy and Abundant, Linda Brand shares why courage is the real key to personal growth, success, and transformation. Whether you want to grow your business, pursue a dream, heal emotionally, or step into your next level, courage is the doorway.

Linda opens up about the courageous decisions that shaped her life — from moving across the country to reinventing her career, starting a podcast, and stepping into leadership.

In this episode you'll learn:

✨ Why courage matters more than confidence
✨ How fear of judgment, failure, or success keeps people stuck
✨ Why action creates self-belief
✨ How to observe and overcome subconscious fears
✨ The simple steps to take your next courageous action

If you’ve been feeling stuck, doubting yourself, or waiting for the “perfect time,” this episode will remind you that everything you need is already within you.

The life you desire is waiting on the other side of courage.

Linda also shares how her transformational coaching experience, The Worthy Remembering Method, helps women release old stories, heal their nervous system, and reconnect to their inherent worth.

If you're ready to step into your power and remember who you truly are, the link to learn more is in the show notes.

Transcript

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If you've ever felt like you're not enough, you're not good enough, you keep self-sabotaging or settling for things that you don't truly want, it's not because something's wrong with you. It's because you forgot who you really are. You forgot that you are worthy. And my worthy remembering method is a transformational program designed to help you release the old stories, heal the nervous system, reconnect to your power, and remember your inherent worth. If this speaks to you, the link is in my show notes. Hey everybody, welcome back to Worthy and Abundant. I'm so grateful you're here. I never take it for granted that you're here listening. If you want to go to the next level in your life, your business, your healing, or your dreams, there's only one thing you absolutely have to have, and that's courage. Not confidence, not certainty, but courage. So today I want to talk to you about why courage is the doorway to your next level. And the reason I bring this up is because I personally am stepping into new things for myself. I am stepping into writing my book, working on my speaking skills, evolving in my life and my business, taking on leadership roles. Here's the truth. The next level is about growth. It's not comfortable. It's never comfortable. Think about a butterfly before they become a butterfly. Is that comfortable? Being in the cocoon? The next level requires leaving the comfort. When a woman gives birth to a baby, is that comfortable? No. It's painful. It's painful. So leaving the familiar, having courage. Courage means acting before you feel ready. It means fear is going to show up and you're going to move anyway. It means we grow, we expand, and our life requires us to walk through a door of uncertainty in order to get to the other side to achieve what we desire. It's always that way. It's not that we have to do hard work. It means we have to have courage. We have to take the next aligned action. And we get the confidence after acting. Actually, courage comes first, and then you take the action, and then you receive confidence because you did the actions. And honestly, the reason that so many people stay stuck is because they have fear, fear of judgment, fear of failure, fear of success. Some people don't even know that they have this subconscious fear of success, but that's something you want to discover. A lot of people don't think they're worthy or deserving of having the things they desire and want. There's so many puzzle pieces. Oftentimes it's subconscious beliefs like the fear of success. You know, people like think once you're successful, people are gonna want money from you, or once you're successful, you're gonna have stress. I mean, there's all kinds of things that could be blocking you, but you have to uncover those. And that takes work and it takes courage to face all the things. And sometimes the biggest thing holding us back isn't the lack of courage or the lack of ability. It's the story we're telling ourselves as to who we are, what we're worthy of, and what we're allowed to have. And I feel more confident today in myself than I have ever felt in my entire life. So self-belief is built through action and it's built through faith, and it's built through making a decision that you are gonna have what you want, that you are gonna take every action possible to achieve what you desire, because there's other people out there doing it, which means we can do it too, you can do it too. So courage be builds evidence for confidence. Every step forward strengthens your belief. And, you know, you can read all the books and listen to the podcast, but if you're not investing in yourself, if you're not taking actions and implementing and embodying the information, then it's futile. So I wanted to talk to you today about courage because it took me so much courage to move across the country from Michigan to Florida. People think you know it's not that huge of a deal, but I lived in the same house for 25 years. I lived in the same state my entire life. I pulled in the same garage for 25 years, and I was moving to a new state where I would have an apartment and not have a garage, and I have a safety thing where I like safety. That's one of my values. Security. So, you know, starting the podcast was scary. Becoming a coach, who am I to coach? There's so many different things that I've done in my life that took courage, but once you take the actions, you grow, right? You become more expansive when you invest and you get in the room with the other people that are doing things that you want to do, you grow. I remember my son's father always saying when he played hockey, you have to play with better players to get better. And that's true. But it takes courage to play with better players, right? It's it's easy to go be the best player on the team, but it's not easy to be not the best player or the worst player on the team. The first step is to know what is your desire, what is your goal, what is your desire, and then take steps, one step towards that. But the next step actually is to notice the fear that's showing up and become the observer. Get curious, have compassion for yourself and take one next small courageous step towards that goal or desire. You just have to do it, and the life you desire is on the other side of courage. And the truth is that courage you're looking for already lives within you. You have everything you need. Everything you need is already within you. Sometimes you just have to remember who you really are, and that is why I created Worthy the Remembering Method. It's six weeks of transformational coaching, it's a mentorship, and it's not changing who you are, it's just helping you to remember your worth. And it takes courage to invest in yourself, it takes courage to show up for yourself, and you are worthy. Thank you for listening. Have a beautiful day.