Here's How You Overcome Fears & Embody Freedom (Entrepreneurship Mindset)

Here's How You Overcome Fears & Embody Freedom (Entrepreneurship Mindset)

I know you want to succeed in your business, in a creative venture, or whatever the picture of success is to you.

When you feel stuck, stagnant, or experience a lot of turbulence, you have subconscious fears stopping you.

We can't get rid of fears. It's human to have them. To unblock your pathway, you have to bring awareness to find out what the subconscious fears are, work through them, and process them.

"The Only Way Out Is Through." Robert Frost        

Fears come from old experiences. They are there to keep you safe.

Here's my backstory that I never told on social media:

My dad was a serial entrepreneur. He made it huge in the 1980s in Seoul, Korea. My family had a chauffeur and lived the dream wealthy lifestyle.

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With my paternal grandmother in our estate in Buenos Aires (1991)

Then, he started another business doing import-export between Argentina and Korea, from late 1980 until 1992. We moved to Buenos Aires. He also hit it big there, and we lived a luxurious lifestyle.

There was a lawsuit in 1992, and my dad lost more than half of his wealth.

After that, we immigrated to Vancouver, Canada. My dad started another business, but it never took off.

After 5 years and almost a million dollars gone, my dad lost himself to bad mental health. He deteriorated in his health, and subsequently abandoned his two teenage children: my brother and me.

I was 16 years old at the time. He didn't tell us he was abandoning us. He said he was moving back to Korea, and downsized us from a 5 bedroom house to a one-bedroom apartment.

He went back to Korea, then he stopped providing for us.

We rarely heard from him.

As seniors in high school, we were suddenly pushed to fend for ourselves.

We had no guardians. We had no one to pay for us.

My teenage friends did not even have the capability to understand the level of desperation.

Some of them even told me that it must be nice for us to not have any parents around.

My brother and I were completely alone in this unusually desperate experience.

We were fending for ourselves, and trying to dodge being found out by teachers and put into foster care. I was terrified of being separated from my brother or ending up raped and abused.

The trauma of suddenly finding ourselves scrambling to pay for an apartment, food, and bills, while never having had any financial education, or even knowing how to write a resume to get a job, was overwhelming and crippling.

So much could have gone wrong in my life. I certainly made mistakes that come from not having parents and being isolated from extended family due to immigration.

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2001. I graduated high school and was proud to get into UBC the same year. When I got to university, I signed up for therapy immediately to help myself with my mindset.

Despite the circumstances, both my brother and I did really well in school and made our way to university.

What happens to a person who suffers such a steep rollercoaster and so much trauma?

We live in survival.

We live in fear.

We tread carefully.

We don't do well with change.

We settle for safety.

Change is an important part of succeeding.

For a long time in my adult life, I had no idea that I was settling.

I didn't know why I couldn't make more money. I didn't know why all my workplaces were toxic, and why every single job I held felt oppressive and boring.

I wanted more, but I didn't even know what.

I didn't know what my purpose was. I was desperate to find out.

When I found out in my early 30s that I wanted to become an entrepreneur, every part of my brain and body screamed against that desire: "NOOOOOOO."

Based on the backstory I told you, you can see why.

My greatest fear was not being able to provide for my children. To repeat what my dad did to us.

Everyone is afraid of entrepreneurship to some level but for someone with my experience, that fear possibly is greater than for most people.

If you can relate to this fear, then what do you do?

Recognize that uncertainty is always a part of life. No job, no business, no venture will ever be 100% secure. Some jobs give the illusion that it is.

100% of success is managing your fears.        

Becoming "free" is exactly this; recognizing that all triggers and visceral fears are related to past experiences and observations. That's why fears feel like reality. It doesn't mean that it is some kind of premonition.

Your subconscious mind remembers everything, even experiences you had in the womb, and is doing everything it can (at all times) to keep you safe.

When we find safety in the uncertainty, that's when we can pivot, choose a direction that is right for us, and accelerate in it.

I recognized that I needed more mindset work than most people, because of many childhood experiences and turbulence.

That's why I started investing in my mindset very early on. I started with therapy when I entered university.

Then, in my late 20s and early 30s, I felt that therapy wasn't helping me anymore. That's when invested in coaching.

I do this work because it worked for me. It worked for my clients who are now living their dream, and that's how I know this work will help you tap into your greatness.

Every bit of the investment I made in myself paid off, and it changed my life for good.

You have to bet on yourself. You have to take a chance. You have to believe in yourself and in your power.

More importantly, you have to start, even when you don't feel ready, even when all the pieces aren't perfectly aligning, and even when you're riddled with uncertainty.

Only when you begin, you get to see what's next.

Only as you start elevating, you become acquainted with your true potential.


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Today, in my beautiful home, after 6 years of entrepreneurship.

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I never told this story before. It's a good story, but it should come with a trigger warning for some. Yet I know this story will help so many people. I'd love to know your thoughts. Francesca Gonzalez Sonja Tsang Holli Abbott Eno Eka Suliha Mukhtar Jon Chintanaroad Tanisha Bhatti Deep Paknikar Devlin Blake

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