What Do You Need to Feel Safe? 🦺

Author

Damon Brown
July 02, 2025

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Hi reader,

I learned late in life that being a risk-taker really depends on your environment

You may be ready to jump out a plane in a heartbeat, but afraid to tell someone you love them

You can be reckless on the dance floor, but petrified to do your taxes

As fantastic author Kayt Sukel asked a decade ago, “Are risk-takers born or made?”

Well, it depends on the risk 🤷🏼‍♀️

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I can be reserved when I first meet someone

And, early in life, always gathering the best credentials for what I set out to do

But I know I couldn’t build successful startups from scratch

Start my own coaching practice

Or pop up on a TED stage

Without risk

You can look at your own life, your own career, and you won’t see a black and white persona.

What I figured out is that there are certain things that keep us grounded

That make us feel safe

That make our lives

And those things, as long as they are secure, allow us to risk to higher heights

To paraphrase many a financial expert

Once you have things of value

Your job shifts from getting them

To protecting them

What do you need to protect to show up as your best self? 🚀

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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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