Rhonda Britten on The Coaching Corner with Dori DeCarlo

December 3, 2025·35 min·3 clips

Rhonda Britten describes watching her father kill her mother and then himself when she was 14.

Fear shows up quietly here. The guest talks about a long stretch of personal pain, and how it prepared her to help people who seem fine from the outside. She names the hidden places: shame, self-rejection, old hurt. The stuff that can sit under a life that still looks happy and thriving. The host does not rush past it. She takes in the guest's framing and pushes back on the idea that this is woo woo or impractical. She calls it brilliant. What lands is the link between fear and the habit of beating yourself up for what still hurts. The guest keeps the conversation personal. Her work, as she describes it, helps people see that self-punishment is fear getting loud. The host widens it out, pointing to the way people can use pain as a reason to stay caught in drinking, self-destruction, self-loathing, and feeling not good enough. Fearless living becomes the center, but it is not treated like a shiny slogan. It sounds more like a daily decision to stop letting fear run the whole room. The host adds a sharper reframe: you do not only live once in some far-off dramatic sense; you live every day. That carries the conversation into the guest's connection between Fearless Living, God, Buddha, and a larger spiritual sense that the phrase was given to her. It does not land as a neat package. It is pain, shame, belief, and the practical work of not turning fear into a life sentence.

As heard by us

Fearless Living is a plainspoken conversation about fear, shame, and getting out of your own way.

The conversation stays with fear, shame, and the habits people build around both. Britten keeps the talk on pain without sanding it down into a neat takeaway, which suits the plainspoken mood of Fearless Living.

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If fear has been running your life, Rhonda Britten talks straight about how to stop feeding it.

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