Reframing Fear And Making It Work For You, With Brian Muka

Fear is a forgotten and overlooked Superpower, the gatekeeper of everything we want is on the other side of this feeling. Meet Brian Muka, the Fear Sherpa himself, former US Navy Special Operations Officer, Bomb Technician, and published author of Your Secret Superpower, Tame Fear to Thrive. He has written a book on how to harness fear and make it work for them, instead of against them.

Having to face his fears on a daily basis when he was a Navy special operations officer, Muka says, “Overcoming fear is a tremendous waste of a potent fuel.” In his new role as a performance coach and speaker, he doesn’t teach or recommend simply overcoming fear. “I inspire others to harness fear by commanding it and its minions: stress, worry, doubt, shame, guilt, procrastination, regret, workaholism, and perfectionism.”

Muka teaches his clients how to dance with courage. “It’s what’s on the other side of what feels difficult where our next breakthrough lives, and it is where our best life is waiting for us to leap towards it,” he explains. Brian employs nutrition, and mindfulness when it matters most, and teaches his clients: 1. breathe, 2. smile, and 3. gratitude as a powerful reminder of how to be at our best when it matters most.

What the podcast will teach you:

• How Brian began thinking about how to transform fear during his time in the Navy, and how he got his unique title of the Fear Sherpa
• How Brian’s unusual background helped him learn to reframe fear or anger and replace them with gratitude
• Why Brian takes a systematic approach to his work and helps his clients overcome their fears
• What common fears many seven-figure business owners have to face, and why “imposter syndrome” is a major hurdle many must cross
• Why the fear of the unknown isn’t the problem, and why the problem is the fear of leaving the known
• How the lessons in fear Brian learned in his military career translate to the kinds of fear entrepreneurs face
• Why the longer you procrastinate and avoid facing the thing you fear, the more the fear grows exponentially
• Brian shares a profound quote from American author Marianne Williamson that addresses our fear of our own power
• How to connect with and work with Brian or to learn more about his coaching work, his book, or his teaching

Quote:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. –Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love

Resources:

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brianmuka/
• Website: fearsherpa.com
• Your Secret Superpower by Brian Muka: https://amzn.to/2sIp8U8
• Facebook: facebook.com/brian.muka