“Yirah is the fear of dissolving a boundary, while pachad is the fear that I feel within that boundary.”

Women need to do more than our male counterparts to come across as both warm and competent. We likely need to be more deliberate about continuously conveying warmth even as we are demonstrating our competence.

The practice is in quieting that voice, not banishing it.”

Create a character that personifies your inner critic.

Yirah also includes a sense of awe. Awe has an element of fear in it—we humbly fear the greatness and grandness of what is before us—but awe encompasses much more than fear: It has elements of reverence, appreciation, and being uplifted as well.

Unrelenting self-compassion. Wise planning. Sustainable action.

women feature others’ ideas to sidestep claiming their own thought leadership.

A broken record. The inner critic will come up with new lines from time to time, but it also tends to rehash a few core narratives it has been repeating to you for decades.

A leap meets these six criteria: It gets you playing bigger now, according to what playing bigger means to you. It can be started and finished within one to two weeks. It’s simple, an action that you can describe in a short phrase. It gets your adrenaline flowing. It puts you in contact with those you want to reach or influence. At its center, it h