Confronting Fears of Failure and Learning to Branch Out

If you don’t branch out, you can never grow

Y’all I have seen so many versions of that same sentence said and that is the only one that has really sank in to me. If you do not do the new or intimidating or uncharted thing that you are worried about failing at, You will never find out if you could have succeeded in it.

I am the kind of girl who spent 30 years of my life in the background and happy there. I didn’t want to be seen, I didn’t want to try new things all because I was so afraid that if I tried a new thing I would fail at it and others would know my failures.

Do you know how many things I fail at every single day!? So many!!! and It is exhilarating and liberating! I love failing at things now. Because I built my business on those failures. I built my entire business around every failure I have had in the past and all of the lessons I have learned from them. It took like 2000 some odd tries for the first light bulb to work. So if it takes me 2,000 failures to be able to create a success, hell yeah let’s do it!

The number one thing I was afraid of is failing publicly. As being seen as not perfectly on top of my everything at all times. So I wouldn’t branch out. I wouldn’t try and grow. Because I was so scared to fail in the public eye.

Now I throw myself onto new branches everyday. I will breathe a big sigh of relief when that branch holds, but if that branch crumbles, I’m not going to hide it. I highlight my failures in the public spotlight purely because I hope others can learn from those lessons easier than I did.

Every single branch I grabbed onto and had it snap in my hands and not able to hold me up was not a “failure”. It was a stepping stone, a rung up the ladder to building my business, evolving who I am as a person, and finding my community.

I used to be too afraid to branch out for risk of not thriving on that branch from day one. Starting in content creation forced me to grab as many branches as I could and just pray that they were reinforced. And then when they weren’t, I had to learn how to reinforce them myself, or find a new branch.

And I’m never going to change that behavior. That is my goal moving forward in my life. I hope that I am always brave enough to fail, and do so publicly. Because these are not failures. They are just stepping stones that get me to the bigger picture And if being loud and proud about those stepping stones, those things that others could see as failures, can help any other Creator out there, I’ll scream every fuck up from the rooftop.

The only true failure you can have within this industry is choosing not to do the thing because you’re afraid the thing will fail. Let it fail. Let it not work exactly how you wanted. It’s all just setting you up to be ready when you find the strong reinforced branch you’ve been looking for.

Here is to everyone branching out in 2025 ❤️