About this episode

Chris Woods discusses overcoming fear and leveraging strengths for personal and professional growth.

Send us Fan Mail Overcoming fear starts with facing what holds you back and naming the strengths that move you forward. In this episode of Reignite Resilience, hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass sit down with Chris Woods, certified professional coach, author of Balls and Brains, and former four time global C-suite executive and Google sales leader, to unpack how fear shapes careers, relationships and self worth, and how to trade fear for strength. Chris grew up the youngest of five in a toug...

People in this episode

Hosts: Pamela Cass, Natalie Davis

Guest: Chris Woods

Topics covered

• fear
• strengths
• reinvention
• career
• self worth

Keywords

• fear
• strengths
• reinvention
• career development
• self worth
• coaching
• personal growth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google

Books & works: Balls and Brains

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