{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Business Therapy™ With Joké","title":"Episode 55 - Someone Else Is Living Your Dream And You're Following Them | Business Therapy™ ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":839,"description":"In today’s episode, I’m talking about the assignment you keep saying you’ll start someday.\nThe business idea. The project. The offer. The book. The podcast. The thing that keeps returning to you, even after months or years of telling yourself you’ll get to it later.\nI share the story of how a major surgery and a hospital stay changed the way I think about time, readiness, and the opportunities we keep postponing. Because sometimes what looks like preparation is really waiting for a version of certainty that may never arrive.\nThis episode is an invitation to consider what might happen if you stopped measuring your readiness by perfection and started trusting yourself with a first step instead.\nHere’s what I covered\n✅ Why waiting to feel ready can quietly keep an idea on pause\n✅ The difference between thoughtful preparation and endless preparation\n✅ What I call borrowed judgment and how it can influence the decisions we make\n✅ Why feedback from the wrong people can pull you away from your own voice\n✅ The concept of visible pain paralysis and why it feels easier to focus on the risks of starting\n✅ The invisible cost of waiting\n✅ Why first versions are allowed to be imperfect\n✅ How visibility creates opportunities for learning, refining and growing\nI also talk about the loneliness that can come from keeping everything inside your head. Sometimes ideas stay stuck because they have nowhere to go, nowhere to be tested and no opportunity to interact with the people they were created for.\nThis episode is for the creative entrepreneur who has been carrying an idea for a while and may be wondering whether it is time to stop refining it privately and allow it to take up a little more space in the world.\nMaybe the next step is not having everything figured out.\nMaybe it is allowing yourself to begin before you do.\n✨ Download the Creative Clarity Assessment\nThis free resource helps you take an honest look at where you are in your business and life so you can identify what is...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Aqif0QoJLLaftp2MsEQ_A5An9SDS60wia3QZ7TZD4dY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wZjk4/MGQ0MWU3YmFhNTU5/MWE5NTIzNTY3MmRj/NWY2Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}