Week 1: FFTs: Fucking First Times
This is one of my favourite podcasts and of course, from one of my favourite people, Brené Brown. It fits in really nicely with this week’s theme about beginnings and I have listened to it multiple times through this pandemic as a reminder that it’s okay to be uncomfortable with these new normals we are all navigating. I don’t want to give too much away before you listen to it, but here’s a quote from it that should sum up the talk nicely:
“New is hard. And we don’t like the discomfort. We all get so afraid of the vulnerability that we actually stop trying or doing anything that we’re not already good at doing. So if its not already comfortable, if we don’t already have some expertise, we’re not doing it….When we give up being new and awkward, we stop growing. And we stop growing, we stop living.”