The Mojo Sessions: EP 219: Dr Amy Silver - Where Do We Find the Courage?

EP 219: Dr Amy Silver - Where Do We Find the Courage?

Jul 15, 2021

Dr Amy Silver is a psychologist, a speaker and an author on the management of emotions for high performance and wellbeing. Her new book, 'The Loudest Guest: How to change and control your relationship with fear', is about managing our fears, what they are, how they impact us and the key steps to change our relationship with fear. Amy has a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, a Masters in Forensic Psychiatry, a Masters in Performance, and a Bachelor with Honours in Psychology, and has been published widely in academic journals. The Loudest Guest is a terrific research-backed way to help us control and overcome our fears.

What did Amy learn about herself in writing The Loudest Guest?
What has Amy done in the last 30 days to confront a fear?
What's our signal that we fear something?
What does Fear look like, feel like?
The Loudest Guest in the room and the act of separating our emotions from ourselves
Name it to tame it. Is that a type of alter ego to deal with fear?
Can we show too much self compassion when we talk ourselves into taking the easy way out?
Is there a connection between the story we deal with in your own mind that has created a true or false fear?
How we can't create when we are in fear, we cannot make thoughtful or strategic decisions. How should a leader navigate that?
What part does identity play in dealing with fear?