People and Projects Podcast: Project Management Podcast · Andy Kaufman, PMP, PMI-ACP
PPP 491 | What a Children's Book Can Teach Leaders About Fear, with former news anchor Lynn Smith
·45 min·4 clips
Lynn Smith teaches the ACT NOW framework for tough conversations: Acknowledge, Communicate, Take responsibility, and ask 'Now what?' so people feel seen and heard.
As heard by us
A grounded look at how leaders can notice fear, steady themselves, and keep it from steering the room.
Lynn Smith treats fear less like a private flaw and more like a leadership problem that can be handled. The discussion ties stress, pressure, and imposter syndrome to the same emotional circuitry, then pulls that idea back to a children's book, a steadier nervous system, and the…
Why you'd press play
For when fear is running the meeting before you are.
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