{"id":862,"date":"2017-04-08T23:15:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T23:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2017-04-08T23:15:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T23:15:53","slug":"facing-fear-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/random\/facing-fear-of-failure","title":{"rendered":"Facing Fear of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 3 &#8216;F&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I recently embarked on creating a non profit to improve diversity in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>As a woman I&#8217;ve faced my own issues climbing up my own ladder in the film industry, but I know there are others that face a larger more complex battle than my own. And those are the people I&#8217;m trying to help.<\/p>\n<p>Every step I take to decide HOW I will do this opens a very large door at a precipice that looks squarely down at a grey murky river of FAIL\u00a0that will sweep me down to god knows where.<\/p>\n<p>Each time I take that step through that particular doorway, however, a bridge appears because I conjured one up with education and knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>But each doorway I have to step through brings the same fear, as if I never learned from the first one and the gut feelings that wrack my brain, to keep me from achieving my goals take root again.<\/p>\n<p>I want my non-profit to make a difference in a very saturated world where so many have gone before me so the fear is real:<\/p>\n<p>Fear that I will not accomplish my goals.<\/p>\n<p>Fear that my attempts will be too small to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Fear that my intended audience does not embrace my mission and fall in love with the services I&#8217;m developing FOR them.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s nothing I can do except face it again and again. Because that&#8217;s what we do as artists. We jump and then discover we can fly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3 &#8216;F&#8217;s. I recently embarked on creating a non profit to improve diversity in the entertainment industry. As a woman I&#8217;ve faced my own issues climbing up my own ladder in the film industry, but I know there are others that face a larger more complex battle than my own. And those are the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/random\/facing-fear-of-failure\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facing Fear of Failure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}