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013: Breaking the Fear of Messing Up

What happens when the fear of “messing up” keeps us from speaking, connecting, or including others?

We are thrilled to welcome Brittany Martin Déjean, founder of Inclusion Jumpstart, for a conversation about FOMU—the fear of messing up—that holds back well-intentioned people and feeds exclusion.

Brittany knows this from both sides. At 12, after her father was paralyzed in a car accident and her brother was killed, she returned to school only to find silence. Classmates, afraid of saying the wrong thing, said nothing at all—leaving her isolated. Years later, she found herself making the same…

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