Kate Swoboda - The Courage Habit

Do you feel the need for a change in your lifea new job, a new purpose? Dont let fear hold you back. You too can find the courage to change with the wisdom collected by Kate Swoboda in this helpful, cheerful, and delightfully readable book.

Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind

The Courage Habit combines the latest research into what creates genuine change with the spiritual view that fear is a gateway to fearlessness. Drawing on her experience coaching clients, personal stories, doable (non-silly) exercises, and her ever-present warmth, this book teaches you the four key habits to face what is holding you back and live your most courageous life.

Susan Piver, bestselling author of Start Here Now

If theres anything Ive learned and taken to heart in the last few years, its that we only have one life to live and we could all stand to spend more time on what makes us happy and less time feeling like were about to implode from anxiety, shame, guilt, and fear. The Courage Habit is a great reminder that you control your destiny, and you have the power to make changes from the inside out to have the life you want, need, and deserve.

Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck and Get Your Sh*t Together

Anyone thats completed a half-Ironman knows a thing or two about courage and emotional resilience. In her new book, The Courage Habit, Kate Swoboda discusses the connection between psychological daring and habit formation, and explains how to unlock your hidden potential to reach lofty goals. Essential reading, whether youre planning on tackling an Ironman or more courageously tackling the challenges and opportunities of life.

Dean Karnazes, ultramarathoner and New York Times bestselling author

By challenging the reader to face and embrace fear, The Courage Habit provides us with a clear path to self-acceptance and emotional freedom. The Courage Habit provides a real-life road map for anyone seeking to face and release their fears. Its a powerful invitation that challenges us all to step into radical self-acceptance and emotional freedom.

Rich and Yvonne Dutra-St.John, Oprah guests, and cofounders of Challenge Day and the Be the Change Movement

This book is the perfect blend of Ive been there too personal stories from Kate, inspiring client stories, and evidence-based strategy to not only just feel more courageous, but to turn courage into a daily habit for you. What a refreshing, practical, smart take on a much-needed quality that each of us needs to live a meaningful life!

Kate Northrup, author of Money, and creator of Origin

The Courage Habit is a definitive guide to your new understanding of fear and courage, and what they really are, and how they can both be reshaped to support the life you actually want to live. The Courage Habit will help you to stop trying to be fearless, and start creating something deeper and richer for your life: living from a place of courage. And what that will produce for your life is truly revelatory.

SARK, author, artist, inspirationist, www.planetsark.com

Open this book and find the insights and tools to work with your fear in an entirely new way. Being afraid is part of being human, but with Kates well-researched and client-tested guidance, thats no longer bad news. With this book in hand, you will be able to choose much more often to do and create what you most desire. Allow Kates wise guidance to shine light wherever fear has you crimped and doubting. And then celebrate the heck out of what happens.

Jennifer Louden, author of The Womans Comfort Book and The Life Organizer

Stop running on autopilot and start living the authentic, fulfilling life youve been yearning for with The Courage Habit. Kate Swobodas practical tools based on scientific research will teach you how to work with your fears, tap into your deepest desires, and build the skills to make your big visions real. Through her vulnerable truth-telling and compassionate curiosity, Kate models The Courage Habit, and youll feel like shes right there in your corner as you take each courageous step forward.

Jennifer Lee, author of The Right-Brain Business Plan

Pretty much everyone in the world needs more courage, so pretty much everyone needs The Courage Habit on their bedside table. Whether youre trying to drum up enough courage to negotiate for more paid vacation time at work or trying to muster up the courage to publish your first blog post, the guidance in this book will help.

Alexandra Franzen, author of 50 Ways to Say Youre Awesome and Youre Going to Survive

In self-help today, the term fearless has taken wings and can make people feel like theyre doing it wrong if they still experience fear. Kate so gracefully and clearly tells the reader how to work with fear, pinpoint our fear-based stories to reframe them, and live their most courageous life. Every chapter in this book is a gem!

Andrea Owen, author of 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life and How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t

We treat fear as a thing to either be ashamed of or to crush. Kate Courageous helps us understand it is an essential, and survivable, part of doing great work in the world.

Pamela Slim, author of Body of Work and Escape from Cubicle Nation

Fear and doubt will always be part of the journey, because as humans well always encounter fear and doubt. The Courage Habit will IGNITE your courage and have you extinguishing the negative voices in your head. You are on the path to greatness, so allow The Courage Habit to light the way!

John Lee Dumas, Entrepreneur on Fire

In Kate Swobodas The Courage Habit, she illuminates what so many of us are seeking: a practical, attainable path out of our fear-driven actions and into a life created by courage. Kates book speaks both as a seasoned fellow traveler and an expert with an invaluable depth of knowledge in the supporting sciences. This is the book for all of us looking at the gap between where we are and where we want to be, but are afraid to go.

Rachel W. Cole, coach and teacher at www.rachelwcole.com

Warning/threat/promise: After working through the four steps laid out for you in The Courage Habit, you wont have any excuses for not reaching your Big Goals or Scary Dreams. Get ready to bust through the negative patterns and stories that are holding you back, in a totally grounded and accessible way. Kate Swoboda gives you the toolbox to live your most courageous life.

Michelle Ward, When I Grow Up Coach

This book is a huge exhale! Not only does it normalize the fear that we all live with, but teaches us how to move toward our fear with love and compassion. Once we are working with our fear instead of fighting against it (or pretending it doesnt exist), Kate teaches us how to create habits around courage that allow us to create what we truly want in our lives. This book is wise, practical, and full of compassion.

Andrea Scher, Superhero Life

Like the friend who always sees through your B.S. and can tell whats really going on with you, The Courage Habit will make you feel relieved, safe, and hopeful as you face your fears, and the where-the-rubber-meets-the-road practices will help you change the habits that are holding you back.