{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6502ec015032c7001167fc64/6adf87de29dd53209d244446?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Dealing with Uncertainty (Without Pretending There’s a Quick Fix)","description":"<p>We’re halfway through Season 5, so this week it’s just me: no guest, no script, and fresh out of a therapy session. I’m talking about something that’s been quietly holding me back since I started building She Who Dares Wins full-time, and that’s uncertainty.</p><p>I spent years on construction sites where things went wrong every day, and I thrived on it. But it turns out that handling uncertainty on a job site is very different from handling it when it’s tied to you, your achievements and the thing you’re building. In this episode I share how that showed up for me. I kept going back and forth on the clothing line because I’d told myself it would be the “stable income”. I kept reaching for a Plan B, and I fell into exhausting loops of going back to things I didn’t really want to do.</p><p>I won’t pretend there are three easy steps to fix it, because there aren’t. What I can share is what’s helping: slowing down, checking <em>why</em> I’m making a decision, and learning to trust myself when things go wrong. And if you take one thing from this episode: the incredible women who sit on the sofa didn’t have it all figured out either. You’re not alone.</p><p><strong>In this episode</strong></p><ul><li>What’s new at She Who Dares Wins: the film production side and the launch of Dare Club</li><li>Our first Dare: a cold-water dip and sauna challenge (coming soon to YouTube)</li><li>Why a career in engineering didn’t prepare me for uncertainty in my own business</li><li>ADHD, high stakes, and the flip side nobody talks about: paralysis and second-guessing</li><li>The clothing line, Plan Bs, and confusing “certainty” with what I actually want</li><li>Why trying to fix uncertainty is impossible, and why knowing you’re sensitive to it helps</li><li>Slowing down and asking: am I doing this out of fear, or for the right reasons?</li><li>How many of us give up on a new career too soon because of that horrible feeling</li><li>What every guest’s story has in common: you get through it, with a win or a lesson</li></ul><p><strong>Key takeaways</strong></p><ul><li>Uncertainty in business is unavoidable and will always feel uncomfortable. The aim is to get used to the feeling, not to make it go away.</li><li>Notice when a decision is really an attempt to create certainty rather than something that fits what you want.</li><li>Building trust with yourself, and accepting that things will go wrong, takes a lot of the pressure off.</li><li>Sometimes understanding why something shows up is enough, without needing to fix it.</li></ul><p><strong>Join Dare Club</strong></p><p>Dare Club is our new community that gets women out of their comfort zones, with a Dare series on YouTube and in-person events planned for 2027. Sign up at <strong><a href=\"http://www.shewhodareswins.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.shewhodareswins.com</a></strong> to get the weekly newsletter every Wednesday, with a mini dare and a few things that brought me joy that week.</p><p><strong>Watch on YouTube</strong></p><p>Every episode is also on YouTube. Search <strong>She Who Dares Wins Podcast</strong> to see the conversations in full.</p><p><strong>Coming up</strong></p><p>A wonderful guest next week, more fabulous guests to finish Season 5, and then we start shooting Season 6!</p>","author_name":"Michelle Hands"}