Stop Holding Back: An Honest Guide to Turning Fear into Action
About this audiobook
Overcoming your fears, one micro-moment at a time
Drawing on Joze’s own incredible journey from being afraid to speak to becoming an award-winning speaker and stand-up comedian, Stop Holding Back will help you understand the hidden power of fear so you can conquer the obstacles that are holding you back in work and life.
Often, we think there will be a singular breakthrough moment for change, but for Piranian the biggest aha moment is that there are no aha moments in life. If you conquer your fears once, it does not mean that they are gone. Transformation happens through “millions of micro-moments of bravery.” Focus less on waiting for that one moment that is going to change your life and more on cultivating micro-moments of bravery. In the words of Nelson Mandela, “courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.” When you work on triumphing over fear on a daily basis, through micro-moments of bravery, especially when you least want to, you can become unstoppable.
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About the author
JOZE PIRANIAN is a lifelong stutterer turned speaker and stand-up comedian. Growing up in Lebanon with a debilitating stutter, Joze avoided speaking almost entirely for more than 25 years. In the past six years, everything changed when Joze turned his obstacle into triumphant public speaking and stand-up comedy performances in three continents and four languages (he stutters in six of them). Joze has delivered speeches at organizations such as the FBI, the United Nations, Google, Meta, TikTok, Tesla, IBM, BCG, Deloitte, Dell, Scotiabank, Rogers, Bell and also spoken at universities, (including his two alma matters: McGill University and Queen’s University). Joze lives in Toronto.
