Holding Pattern 👨🏽‍✈️

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Damon Brown
March 18, 2026

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Hi reader,

I was just in business layover purgatory

My smooth flights were suddenly canceled

Meetings had to be rescheduled

Tiredness had to be managed

Patience had to be found

And after hours of standbys and false starts

My new ticket come through 

I was on the plane

But mind was still wandering through LAX

I was still jumpy and anxious

I still didn’t believe

That I was OK 😵‍💫

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When I coach entrepreneurs 

Our biggest work isn’t the fear of failure

We all know the odds are not in our favor 

No, the focus is on the fear of success

What happens when you’re not the underdog?

When your vision becomes real?

When you win?

The truth is that we don’t know

If anxiety is our fuel

Then we can’t see our motivation without it

So we generate it like a power plant

Rather than face our life without it.

You can take either approach.

What matters is knowing you always have a choice ⚠️

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🙋🏾 I’m Damon! (http://www.damonbrown.net) I help side hustlers, solopreneurs & others like yourself bloom. As a bestselling author, 2x startup founder & 4x TEDTalker, I co-founded the popular connection app Cuddlr and led it to acquisition within a year while being a stay at home dad with my infant son.

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