Activating Courage: Transform Discomfort into Bold, Confident Action
1h 35mBeginner2025-12-11
Authors

Dr Margie Warrell
Course details
In today’s increasingly fast-moving and anxious world, it’s easy to hold back until you feel confident or ready. This course empowers you to close the "courage gap" between knowing what to do and actually doing it.
Instructor Margie Warrell equips you with practice tools to move through doubt, speak up more confidently, and make better and braver decisions. Learn how to align daily choices with long-term goals and expand your influence—regardless of your role or title. Discover how to reframe discomfort as a catalyst for your growth and develop everyday habits that help you lead yourself, and others, with the clarity and confidence you always wished you had.
Learning objectives
Identify what holds you back and build the confidence to take action, even before you feel ready.
Recognize how avoiding discomfort limits growth and apply tools to make braver choices.
Understand how mindset shapes behavior—and shift from self-protection to self-expansion, increasing your resilience and ability to adapt faster to change.
Develop practices and strategies to manage self-doubt, override fear-driven thinking, and take braver action in the moments when it matters most.
Use a values-alignment framework to make choices that reinforce values and strengthen your reputation as someone who can be trusted to do what’s right.
Instructor Margie Warrell equips you with practice tools to move through doubt, speak up more confidently, and make better and braver decisions. Learn how to align daily choices with long-term goals and expand your influence—regardless of your role or title. Discover how to reframe discomfort as a catalyst for your growth and develop everyday habits that help you lead yourself, and others, with the clarity and confidence you always wished you had.
Learning objectives
Identify what holds you back and build the confidence to take action, even before you feel ready.
Recognize how avoiding discomfort limits growth and apply tools to make braver choices.
Understand how mindset shapes behavior—and shift from self-protection to self-expansion, increasing your resilience and ability to adapt faster to change.
Develop practices and strategies to manage self-doubt, override fear-driven thinking, and take braver action in the moments when it matters most.
Use a values-alignment framework to make choices that reinforce values and strengthen your reputation as someone who can be trusted to do what’s right.
Skills covered
Personal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Build Your Courage - Turning Intention into Action
Why Courage is a Force Multiplier
- Growth and Comfort Cannot Coexist
- The Courage Gap - Who You Are vs. Who You Can Be
- The Key to Your Success Isn’t Knowing More, It’s Courage
- Inner Growth, Outer Impact - Linking Internal and External Success
Focus on What You Want, Not What You Fear
- A Primary Lesson on Fear and Failure
- What Is Worth Being Courageous For
- The Hidden Ways Fear Stalls Your Progress (And You Don’t Realize It)
- Managing Influence - Escaping the People-Pleasing Trap
- Lead from Values, Not Emotions
Rewrite the Stories That Hold You Back
- The Power of Reframing Our Stories
- Behavior Is Belief-Driven - How Stories Shape Success
- Are You the Captain or a Prisoner of Your Career and Life?
Cultivating Courage - Turning Fear into Fuel
- The Terrifying Swing Toward Courage
- The Physiology of Courage - How Your Body Impacts Your Bravery
- Cultivating Courage - The Power of the Pause Under Pressure
- Simple Exercises to Rebuild Fear Responses in the Moment
- Bravely Designed - Surround Yourself with Courage-Builders
Stepping into Discomfort - Risk, Growth, and the Courage to Act
- Reset Your Relationship with Discomfort
- The Edison Approach - Experiments Create Certainty
The Courage to Fail, Forgive, and Move On
- The Weight of What We Didn’t Do
- Failure is Feedback - Find the Treasure When You Fall
- Embracing Fallibility - Why Self-Compassion Drives Growth