#203: Making Big Moves (Even When You're Scared Sick): How to Grow Without Feeling Ready

Oct 24, 2025

Explore the transformative power of making bold moves, even when fear grips you. Discover why waiting to feel 'ready' can stall your growth and how discomfort, like nausea, can signal alignment. Learn to trust yourself and make decisions without needing others' approval. Wendy emphasizes the importance of radical responsibility, challenging thought loops, and redefining success beyond just financial returns. Embrace the discomfort of growth as a sign you're on the right path towards greater impact and income.

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ANECDOTE

Contracts That Triggered Nausea

Wendy signed two major contracts that made her feel physically sick but confirmed alignment.
She messaged a coach saying “paid for” then “feel like I'm going to throw up” to describe the moment.

ADVICE

Don’t Wait To Feel Ready

Do not wait to feel fully ready before taking significant action in your business.
Recognize unreadiness is normal when entering unfamiliar territory and move forward anyway.

ADVICE

Stop Asking For Approval

Avoid seeking others' approval as a decision-making crutch that outsources responsibility.
Trust yourself instead of inviting reflections of your own doubts from others.

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In this deeply honest episode of The SoulFUEL Show, Wendy pulls back the curtain on the uncomfortable but transformative decisions that define our growth. She shares the behind-the-scenes of signing two big contracts - moves that provoked fear, doubt, and a nervous system freakout but ultimately aligned with her deeper calling and caused tremendous expansion. If you've been hesitating to take the next step in your business because you're waiting to feel ready, this episode is for you. Learn how self-trust, body wisdom, and radical responsibility can become your most powerful tools in breaking past resistance and stepping into a much fuller expression of who you are so you can grow your impact and income.

Why feeling not ready is often a sign you're on the right path.
How to make bold decisions without needing full information or others' approval.
Why physical discomfort (even nausea!) can signal real alignment, not danger.
The underrated ROI of personal growth from big investments - even before the money shows up.
How to recognize and interrupt thought loops that sabotage your progress.
Redefining ROI beyond money: growth, clarity, and momentum count too.
The value of radical self-responsibility and why no one is coming to "save" your business.
Navigating resistance as confirmation of your deeper calling.

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Wendy Collier coaches and consults with ambitious, purpose-driven entrepreneurs, service-based professionals, coaches, trainers, teachers, creatives, consultants, healers, light leaders and conscious leaders of all kinds, to live free from the inside out, through UNLOCKING their SoulFUEL® and aligning that to their business so they can master the energetics, marketing, messaging, audience + email list building, and sales skills needed to be a wild success at growing their business and make their impact.

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