Ep 149: Failure Tolerance

Most of us were taught that failure is bad. That if we fall short, it means something about who we are—our worth, our capability, our potential. But what if failure isn’t a problem at all? What if it’s the path to everything we want?

In this episode, we unpack what I call failure tolerance—the skill of building your capacity to try, fall short, feel the feelings that come with it, and keep going anyway. Because here’s the truth: when we avoid failure, we actually fail on purpose. We choose inaction to dodge discomfort, and that turns a 50% chance of failing into a 100% guarantee.

You’ll learn how to flip that pattern—how to stop avoiding failure and instead get good at it. When you do, everything changes. You stop seeing failure as evidence of your worth and start seeing it as iteration. Each “failure” becomes a puzzle piece in building something extraordinary.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why avoiding failure is actually a form of guaranteed failure.
• How to expand your failure tolerance so you can take bigger risks with more freedom.
• The two key skills that make iteration possible (and fun):
  1. Evaluating what worked, what didn’t, and what you’ll tweak next time.
  2. Learning to feel your emotions when things don’t go as planned.
• Why mastering these two skills opens every door—to creativity, impact, and possibility.
• A behind-the-scenes look at how I do a live “retro” (retrospective) on one of my own recent attempts, breaking it down step by step so you can apply it to your own projects.
  
  

We’ll also celebrate an exciting milestone: the first few women joining the Moxie Mastermind before enrollment even opened! This six-month experience is for women ready to turn one powerful idea into something real—with community, coaching, and deep transformation along the way.

Because when you build failure tolerance, you stop being afraid of getting it wrong—and start building the life, business, and legacy that’s been waiting for you all along.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Moxie Mastermind — 6-month group program starting in January for women ready to bring their big ideas to life.
• Retros are Everything — for a deeper dive into the reflection skill that powers iteration.
• The Practice — for building your emotional capacity to feel and process failure.

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