115: Overcoming Fear of Failure with Chris Woods | He Flatlined at 40 and Rewrote the Rules

All Can No Can't | Mastering Resilience · Apr 30, 2026 · 50m

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Overcoming fear of failure is easier said than done — unless you've flatlined in a hospital bed and had no choice but to figure it out. That's exactly what happened to Chris Woods.

Chris is a former Google sales executive, C-suite leader, Harvard mid-career program grad, and now executive coach to high-achieving men who look successful on paper but know something's off. When cardiac Lyme disease sent him to the hospital at 40 — the exact age his father died — he flatlined, was revived, and woke up with a…