Living and Training Courageously with Kate Swoboda

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Kate Swoboda is creator of YourCourageousLife.com, Director of the Courageous Living Coach Certification at TribeCLCC.com and author of The Courage Habit: How to Accept Your Fears, Release the Past, and Live Your Courageous Life. She helps individuals, teams, and companies see where old, fear-based habits have kept people stuck or started to limit what’s possible for an organization, and then start creating more courageous lives by getting into “the courage habit,” a four-part process for behavioral and organizational change.

Kate has appeared in MindBodyGreen, Entrepreneur, USA Today, Forbes, Lifetime Moms, The Intelligent Optimist, Business Insider, and more, and her website Your Courageous Life was named a top-50 blog for happiness by Greatist. She’s spoken at conferences and seminars on the topic of courage as it relates to personal development, releasing overwhelm, business and marketing, money mindset, wellness, increasing emotional resilience, and healthy goal-setting using habit-formation techniques.

In this episode we chat about:

How Kate’s unhappiness in her first career caught her by surprise, and the signs that pointed to the need for change (1:21)
Are you hungry for more every day courage? What it really means to live courageously (8:02)
Why you can’t avoid fear, and the difference between fear-based habits and courage-based habits (9:42)
How to identify which fear-based habits you tend towards (14:19)
The four courage-based routines and how to use them (16:35)
Listening to fear without attachment (17:22)
How Kate has used “accessing the body” to nurture courage in her own life and running (19:44)
How practicing courage has shown up for Kate during triathlon training (27:35)
and so much more