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Jenn Smith ❀'s avatar

So much wisdom in this post, Jenny. Thank you for putting words to what I've felt 1 billion times 💛

Fellow softball player and multi-year coaches award winner here 🙋🏼‍♀️I was the 3rd baseman who got the yips (never knew this was a thing?!) And it was so bad that I wouldn't let my parents attend or watch the games! Ugh.

Now The Business Yips—that churn in my stomach when hitting publish on whatever it is (email, podcast, social post, website) every.single.time. What keeps me going is thinking about the ONE human it might help, and that tips the scale.

Thank you for your courage to talk about the hard things—you're the MVP in my book ;)

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Juanita's avatar

I know this is an old post, but just wanted to say thank you for sharing your story with such honesty, it truly resonates. In my case, I never was a sports player, but I had similar feelings of disappointing others just by not being able to do things that came natural to most people (do a forward roll or crossing the monkey bars). Now as an adult I've been trying to make the pivot from employee to freelancer / business owner for a couple of years now and this feeling persists to the point I'm thinking of quitting before even starting. Your 49/51 ratio is a good way to start moving forward even with fear, doubt, awkwardness, you name it. Thank you 🧡

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