ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
What The Fear?! is a podcast about the fears that drive us, the ones that derail us - and the ones that dare us to do things differently.
Hosted by award-winning author, speaker and productivity expert Grace Marshall, the show explores how High Functioning Fear® hides in plain sight - showing up as busyness, overthinking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or relentless productivity. It examines how fear shapes the way we work, lead, relate and make decisions - often without ever looking like fear.
Each episode features deep, honest conversations with thinkers, researchers and practitioners about what fear looks like in real life - and how we can move through it with more courage, clarity and connection.
Together, we explore the surprising ways fear shows up in leadership, conflict, communication, trust, innovation, uncertainty, silence, team dynamics and organisational change - and how to meet it with compassion, creativity and strength.
Whether you're leading a team, navigating uncertainty, or figuring out how to be more human at work - this show invites you to rethink your relationship with fear.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 16 days
Average audio length:
51 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
19 episodes
since Sept. 7, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
What brings people together? What drives them apart? And what's fear got to do with it? In this episode I'm joined by Alison (Ali) Goldsworthy to explore polarisation at work, and why it's rarely as simple as differing opinions.
Co-author of the bestselling book Poles Apart, Ali has spent over 25 …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
How do you design an organisation with less fear? In this episode I’m joined by Mack Fogelson, an organisational designer who helps leaders and companies build braver cultures in complex systems. Organisations are rarely designed with fear in mind, but for Mack, it shows up in every layer of how wo…
When change is high, workload feels high. But what if it's not your workload - it's your thoughtload? In this episode I'm joined by Liane Davey to explore the real culprit behind the overwhelm, chaos and burnout experienced by so many teams.
For the past 25 years, Liane has researched and advised…
How does fear show up in high pressure situations - from war zones to board rooms? In this episode I’m joined by former CIA analyst Rupal Patel to explore how someone who has faced genuine danger, experiences fear in everyday work life.
Rupal Patel’s high-octane career has taken her from military…
How does fear show up in high-stakes conversations? In this episode I'm joined by former hostage negotiator Nigel Taberner to explore how to diffuse tension, build trust and communicate under pressure when the stakes are high.
Nigel spent 10 years as a hostage negotiator with Greater Manchester Po…
How does fear show up in our bodies? In this episode I'm joined by Jake Mahal to explore the way the human body has evolved to respond to fear and what happens when we find ourselves in survival mode for too long.
Jake Mahal is a metabolic health specialist and health coach who helps busy, capable…
What makes people feel like they matter - and what happens when they don’t? In this episode I’m joined by Zach Mercurio - researcher, author of The Power of Mattering, and one of the leading voices on meaningful work - to explore the primal human need to matter, and the fears that surface when that…
How competitive are we really - and what’s fear got to do with it? In this episode I’m joined by Ruchika T. Malhotra - global inclusion strategist and author of Uncompete - to question one of the most dominant assumptions in modern work and life: that success requires competition.
We’re often told…
Is curiosity just a personality trait - or a skill we can practise and develop? In this episode I’m joined by Dr. Jeff Wetzler to explore what shapes our capacity for curiosity - and how fear can interfere with it, especially when we need it most.
Jeff is a leadership and learning expert and the a…
What if fear isn’t weakness - but data? In this episode I’m joined by Susan Asiyanbi to explore what fear looks like in leadership - and what becomes possible when we stop pushing it down.
Susan is a strategist, pattern recogniser, and the person senior leaders call when facing their biggest leade…
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