Remastered Episode 28: The "What is holding you back?" series intro.
By Isaiah O’Connor
In this remastered episode, I introduce a new series called What Is Holding You Back? This series looks at the inner obstacles that can quietly sabotage your journey into entrepreneurship. Unlike physical challenges, these internal ones like fear, perfectionism, pride, or emotional paralysis are harder to spot and even harder to defeat.
This episode sets the stage for everything to come. I break down the kinds of mindset and character issues we’ll cover over the next several installments, and why these invisible forces often hold people back more than any external challenge. This is just the beginning. In future episodes, I’ll unpack each of these roadblocks, starting with the biggest one: fear.
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