The Audacity to Fail

Jeff Tatarchuk is a serial entrepreneur and founder of 6 companies; 5 of which have been sold or acquired. As the a career coach and speaker, Jeff enjoys being a connector and using his gift of ideation in helping other entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life and help investors find a way to align their capital with high growth investment opportunities. He is a sought after consultant, speaker, and the chief marketing officer and co-founder of VMAccel, a FPGA-based high performance cloud computing company.

We've all been conditioned to think that failure is the worst thing that can happen to us. But failure is not the issue, the problem is not knowing how to recover when we do fail. In this episode, I'm going to share a lesson that took me nearly 30 years to learn that is finally helping me get out of my own way.

Oprah calls him "A different kind of spiritual teacher for our times." DeVon Franklin is a force in the media and has become a leading authority on inspiration, spiritual wellness and personal development. He is the producer of multiple hit films including Breakthrough, The Star and Miracles From Heaven and the author of The Truth About Men, The Success Commandments, The Wait (co-authored with his wife Meagan Good), and Produced by Faith. He sits on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Meagan. DeVon joins us today to discuss his new book, LIVE FREE. Read the transcript of the episode:https://tatfl.ink/devon-franklinGet DeVon's book, LIVE FREE:https://amzn.to/3r4po97

Warren Shaeffer is the Co-Founder & CEO of Knowable.fyi, a venture-backed audio learning platform and library of original, expert-led audio courses. Warren joins The Audacity to Fail to discuss how he balances life and work, wins and losses, performance pressure, and how being kind to yourself is essential to avoiding burnout.

Every dream has a storm or set of inevitable failures one must endure as stepping stones to handle your journey's next phase. For some, the storm is comfortable and feels more like light rain; for others, it can feel like a tsunami. What's your dream, and do you have the audacity to endure a tsunami to reach your goals?

We all can dream big dreams. But the challenge is how to create in ourselves the audacity to fail – because it's in that process of trying and failing that we learn and grow and develop and ultimately succeed at bringing our dreams to life.