The Anxious Achiever Turning Anxiety Into Your Growth Edge with Whitney Johnson
Sep 4, 2025
Whitney Johnson, CEO of Disruption Advisors and a leader in personal disruption, shares her insightful journey from Wall Street to empowering growth through discomfort. She discusses how anxiety can ignite productivity rather than hinder it and offers strategies to tackle avoidance fueled by fear. Whitney emphasizes the significance of confronting anxieties during career transitions and highlights daily practices that cultivate resilience. Tune in for actionable tips on embracing anxiety as a catalyst for transformative growth!
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From Wall Street To A Manifesto
- Whitney wrote Dare, Dream, Do after realizing many competent women felt they lacked permission to dream beyond caregiving.
- She used her Wall Street transition and conversations with peers to craft a manifesto encouraging women to pursue broader ambitions.
Step Back To Slingshot Forward
- Disrupting yourself means stepping back from who you are today to slingshot into who you want to be.
- Whitney Johnson reframes personal growth as deliberately overturning your current habits and identity to create new value.
Anxiety Traced Back To Childhood
- Whitney describes lifelong anxiety starting in childhood with severe stomach aches and school avoidance episodes.
- She says those early coping patterns let anxiety go unmanaged for years until therapy and self-work helped her understand it.
