Failure is inevitable, but it doesn’t have to be final. How can we learn to allow, accept, and even love the experience of failure? How can we renegotiate our relationship with failure so we can harness it to propel us forward instead of holding us back? We dive into all these questions and more on this episode of No Clear Answers!

Join executive leadership & career coach Rikki Goldenberg, conscious leadership & executive coach Justin Mulvaney, and licensed clinical psychologist turned creator coach Corey Wilks as we discuss all that and more.

0:00 Episode Preview
1:09 Show Intro
1:41 Today’s Topic: Failure
3:35 What is failure, actually?
7:06 Why you will/should be “failing” sometimes
8:26 Typical relationships to failure
19:50 What happens when failure isn’t an option
27:15 Considering success and failure across your life
28:43 What are the toxic mindsets that make failure feel so awful?
31:46 Failure isn’t Final
33:15 What actually happens when you fail
34:27 The consequences of society “packaging” failure
36:31 Sharing while in the mess of failure
38:35 People appreciate war stories
41:35 Failure and the Reality that you can’t control everything
46:36 A healthy relationship to failure requires you feel heartbreak
48:03 How can you separate a specific failure from being a failure?
55:26 Tactics for having a healthy relationship with failure
1:03:03 Final thoughts on Failure
1:04:06 Post-Credits

Learn more about the hosts:
https://rikkigoldenberg.com/
https://justinmulvaney.com/
https://coreywilkspsyd.com/

Intro Music:
http://www.aaronwaltersmusic.com/

E30 How to Recover From Failure (Because You Will Fail)