🔄 How to Try Again: Failure, Reinvention & Making Change That Sticks with Steve Kamb
What do you do when you did everything right… and life blows up the plan anyway? This week, Wendy sits down with her friend Steve Kamb — founder of Nerd Fitness and author of the brand-new book How to Try Again — for a funny, tender, deeply human conversation about failing, flailing, and finding your way back. While writing a book about navigating failure, Steve got hit with three life-altering blows at once: a skin cancer diagnosis, the collapse of his business’s traffic, and a heartbreaking divorce. What he learned became the heart of this episode — that failure is the first step, not the last; that there’s no “hierarchy of suck”; and that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is tread water instead of pushing harder. Steve walks us through his four-part PACT — Pause, Accept, Change, Try — and why you should give yourself permission to start ugly. If you’re in a hard season, consider this your permission slip to breathe. 💛
What You’ll Learn
- Why failure is the FIRST step in your story, not the last — and why “we’re not that special” is the best news ever
- The art of “strategic half-assing”: how treading water beats burning out when life is heavy
- Steve’s four-word PACT for starting over — Pause, Accept, Change, Try
- How to beware the “back-to-normal fallacy” and accept that today IS the normal
- Why you should treat change like an experiment — and give yourself permission to start ugly
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