129 - Your Brain Is Ghosting Your Future Self — And It's Costing You

129 - Your Brain Is Ghosting Your Future Self — And It's Costing You

What if the real cost of playing it safe isn't what you miss today—it's who you never become tomorrow?

Your brain treats your future self like a stranger—and that's why you keep choosing comfort over courage. In this episode, I explore the neuroscience behind this disconnect and why it leads us to make decisions our future selves will regret. You'll discover why prioritizing what feels safer today is actually the riskiest choice you can make.

I share Richard Branson's advice that inspired my climb up Mt. Kilimanjaro (with my four kids!) and why you need to risk more "worthy failure" - the kind you'll never regret. If you're ready to start making braver choices you'll never regret, this one is for you.

In this episode:

  • Why your brain treats your future self like a stranger—and how to change it
  • The Timidity Tax: the invisible cost of letting fear make decisions
  • How to build empathy for the person you are yet to become
  • What worthy failure means—and why your future self will thank you for it

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146. 5 Liberating Truths to Make Peace With Your Path and Purpose

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145. Verbal Sunshine: Encouragement as a Superpower for Leadership and Life

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144. Beyond the Degree: Higher Education Must Disrupt or Decline — with Sharon Pickering, Vice-Chancellor of Monash University

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We are not living through a period of change in higher education. We are living through a change of era — and while educational leaders see it coming, centuries of tradition run deep, anchoring them i...

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143. Compare and Despair: How to Run Your Own Best Race

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We live in a world that constantly invites comparison. Every time we pick up our devices, our newsfeeds flood us with curated images, updates, and highlights from everyone else’s lives. It’s designed ...

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142. Your Wounds Are Not Your Fault, But Your Healing Is Your Responsibility with Raj Sisodia

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What kind of world would we be living in if those in power weren’t leading from unhealed wounds?Raj Sisodia, co-author of Healing Leaders Now, joins me on the Live Brave Podcast to explore the profoun...

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141 - Feeling Disappointed? Finding the Gift When People Let You Down and Plans Fall Apart

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Disappointment hurts.  It arrives when what we hoped for collides with what actually happened—when people fall short, plans unravel, or a future we were counting on quietly disappears. And yet, disapp...

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140 - The Courage You Practice Shapes the Leader You Become with JoAnne Bass

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Our identity - as people and leaders - isn’t forged in one defining moment. It’s built over time, through small choices that test our values long before the stakes feel high. In this conversation with...

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