What The Fear?!
Claim This Podcastby Grace Marshall
Podcast Overview
<p><b>What The Fear?!</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> is a podcast about the fears that drive us, the ones that derail us - and the ones that dare us to do things differently.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Hosted by award-winning author, speaker and productivity expert Grace Marshall, the show explores how High Functioning Fear® hides in plain sight - showing up as busyness, overthinking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or relentless productivity. It examines how fear shapes the way we work, lead, relate and make decisions - often without ever looking like fear.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Each episode features deep, honest conversations with thinkers, researchers and practitioners about what fear looks like in real life - and how we can move through it with more courage, clarity and connection.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Together, we explore the surprising ways fear shows up in leadership, conflict, communication, trust, innovation, uncertainty, silence, team dynamics and organisational change - and how to meet it with compassion, creativity and strength.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Whether you're leading a team, navigating uncertainty, or figuring out how to be more human at work - this show invites you to rethink your relationship with fear.</span></p>
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Recent Episodes
March 1, 2026
Fear as Data in Leadership - with Susan Asiyanbi
What if fear isn’t weakness - but data? In this episode I’m joined by Susan Asiyanbi to explore what fear looks like in leadership - and what becomes possible when we stop pushing it down. Susan is a strategist, pattern recogniser, and the person senior leaders call when facing their biggest leadership challenges. As CEO and founder of The Olori Network®, she and her team study what the strongest executives do differently - capturing the principles, practices and pitfalls of leadership - and bring those insights to bear in real time with CEOs and their teams. Together we unpack how fear can hide in plain sight - in busyness, control, people-pleasing, or the pressure to prove you’re enough - and how those patterns ripple through teams when they go unnamed. Susan shares what shifts when leaders begin to treat fear as information, rather than weakness. We discuss: How fear disguises itself as productivity and performance Why high achievers stay stuck longer than they should What it takes to make the undiscussable discussable How leaders can create space for honest, real-time dialogue Why seeing fear as data can change how we make decisions If you’re feeling stuck as a leader - this conversation will help you understand the patterns shaping your leadership and your team and offer a more freeing way to lead. Continue the conversation with Grace here: gracemarshall.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gracemarshall/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gracemarshallninja/ About Guest Susan Asiyanbi is an executive advisor and operator with more than two decades of cross-sector leadership. She helps CEOs and senior teams navigate complexity, accelerate alignment, and strengthen the systems and relationships that drive performance. Before founding The Olori Network®, Susan served as Chief Operating Officer at Teach For America, where she led operations across 51 regions and stewarded more than 2,000 staff — building high-performance teams capable of driving results while maintaining a strong culture, even amid significant change. Earlier in her career, she held strategic and operational roles at Boston Consulting Group and Sears Holdings Corporation. Through The Olori Network®, Susan brings together everything she has learned: that strategy and culture must move together, and that leadership is ultimately about relationships, trust, and clarity in action. Find out more at www.olorinetwork.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-asiyanbi/ The podcast was produced by pronkproductions.com
March 1, 2026
Fear, Competition and Collaboration - with Ruchika T. Malhotra
How competitive are we really - and what’s fear got to do with it? In this episode I’m joined by Ruchika T. Malhotra - global inclusion strategist and author of Uncompete - to question one of the most dominant assumptions in modern work and life: that success requires competition. We’re often told that competition drives performance, innovation and excellence. But what if it’s also driven by fear - fear of scarcity, fear of falling behind, fear that if someone else wins, we lose? In this conversation, we unpack the fear that underlies the logic of “survival of the fittest” and explore what becomes possible when we choose collaboration over rivalry. Together we explore: The hidden cost of competition - in childhood, in our careers, and in our communities The myth of “survival of the fittest” and how it shapes workplace behaviour How a scarcity mindset shapes decision-making, status, and success What becomes possible when we choose to practice collaboration and abundance How shifting from individual success to collective power changes the game entirely If you’ve ever felt the pressure to prove, outperform or outshine - this conversation invites a different way forward. Continue the conversation with Grace here: gracemarshall.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gracemarshall/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gracemarshallninja/ About Guest Ruchika T. Malhotra is the author of Uncompete: Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success. She is also the founder of Candour, a global inclusion strategy firm. A former business journalist, her writing appears regularly in publications such as Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Seattle Times, and more. Named LinkedIn Top Voice for Gender Equality and selected to Thinkers50 Radar, she is a keynote speaker on leadership, workplace culture and the Uncompete™ framework. She has previously held adjunct faculty positions at Seattle University and the University of Washington, where she now advises the Communication Leadership graduate program. Her last book, Inclusion on Purpose, was The MIT Press' top selling book of 2022 and called "transformative" by Dr. Brené Brown. Find out more at www.ruchika.co LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruchikatm/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rtulshyan/ The podcast was produced by pronkproductions.com
March 1, 2026
Fear and Chronic Overperformance – with Pippa Grange
What if the way you’ve learned to succeed is the very thing that’s exhausting you? In this episode I’m joined by Dr Pippa Grange - performance psychologist and coach with more than 25 years’ experience working with elite performers across sport and industry. Formerly Head of People and Team Development at The Football Association, she worked closely with Gareth Southgate and the England men’s football team during their journey to the 2018 World Cup semi-finals. Today, her work draws on performance psychology and ecological thinking to help individuals and teams sustain excellence without burning out. Together we explore how overperformance becomes a way of being - and why it so often leaves us depleted rather than fulfilled. Pippa invites us to rethink what it really means to perform well, offering a radically healthier vision of success - one that is regenerative rather than extractive, and feels as good as it looks. We discuss: The difference between “winning deep” and “winning shallow” How fear becomes our behavioural GPS Why success can be fleeting when we’re running on the wrong fuel Why overperformance isn’t random - but shaped by the rules of the game What it means to perform in a way that feels whole, not hollow If you want to perform well - without losing yourself in the process - this conversation is for you. Continue the conversation with Grace here: gracemarshall.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gracemarshall/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gracemarshallninja/ About Guest Dr Pippa Grange is a performance psychologist and coach with more than 25 years in the field, working with some of the world’s top performers across sport and industry. Formerly Head of People and Team Development at The Football Association, she worked closely with Gareth Southgate’s England men’s football team and is widely credited for her pivotal role in their success reaching the 2018 World Cup semi-finals. Her transformative work was portrayed in the smash-hit national play ‘Dear England’, which is currently being adapted into a four-part TV drama for BBC One. Her practice today draws on ecopsychology and performance principles to help individuals and groups sustain and thrive in all their performance adventures. Find out more at www.pippagrange.com Pippa’s book Life. Reclaimed: https://dk.com/products/9780241761908-life-reclaimed The podcast was produced by pronkproductions.com
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- What is What The Fear?!?
<p><b>What The Fear?!</b><span style="font-weight:400;"> is a podcast about the fears that drive us, the ones that derail us - and the ones that dare us to do things differently.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Hosted by award-winning author, speaker and productivity expert Grace Marshall, the show explores how High Functioning Fear® hides in plain sight - showing up as busyness, overthinking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or relentless productivity. It examines how fear shapes the way we work, lead, relate and make decisions - often without ever looking like fear.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Each episode features deep, honest conversations with thinkers, researchers and practitioners about what fear looks like in real life - and how we can move through it with more courage, clarity and connection.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Together, we explore the surprising ways fear shows up in leadership, conflict, communication, trust, innovation, uncertainty, silence, team dynamics and organisational change - and how to meet it with compassion, creativity and strength.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Whether you're leading a team, navigating uncertainty, or figuring out how to be more human at work - this show invites you to rethink your relationship with fear.</span></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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