How to Believe in Yourself When Everyone Tells You “You Can’t” | Cole Brauer - EP 820
15 September - 1 hour 8 minsWhat happens when someone tells you that you're too small to do the thing you've been working toward your entire life?
For Cole Brauer, that moment could have been the end of the story. Instead, it became part of the beginning. Cole was told she was too short to compete in the Southern Ocean. She was cut from a major team after traveling across the Atlantic and giving up paid opportunities to pursue the dream. A year later, she was sailing solo around the world.
But what makes Cole's story so compelling isn't simply the achievement. It's everything she had to become along the way.
Cole grew up in a small town on Long Island, moved across the country, changed academic and career directions...
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You Are Not the Only Variable: When to Change Yourself and When to Change Your Environment | John R. Miles - EP 816
In this solo episode 816, John R. Miles brings together two powerful ideas from his conversations with Angela Duckworth and Jared Diamond to explore a question that most of us rarely stop to ask: when does the situation shape the outcome, and when are we the person who uniquely matters?
23 mins
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