Fear of failure led Iris Cullinan to a winding road in Nepal

In this episode, I talk with Iris Cullinan, a career and business coach based in Asheville, North Carolina. Iris shares how she faced her fear of failure in a non-obvious way ... namely, by resolving to quit her job and travel the world for two months! In the process, she found herself stuck in traffic on a bus in Nepal for the better part of a whole day, totally sure she was going to wake up in the middle of the night to find the bus tumbling down the side of a mountain. Instead, she not only survived (yay!), but she found a well of resilience she might not have ever discovered if she'd stayed on the "supposed to do this" path in Boston.

Find out more about Iris at her web site: https://www.iriscullinan.com/

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The J.K. Rowling quote she mentions at the end is: "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default." This is from her commencement address at Harvard, the full text of which is here: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/06/text-of-j-k-rowling-speech/.