Owning Pink is all about being unapologetically YOU so you can heal, connect, and thrive. But doing so isn’t always easy, and we all need role models.

I’d like to shine a light on Chaz Bono, who is Owning Pink so fearlessly that I’m in awe. Chaz Bono was born Chastity, but he never felt like a girl. As a tomboy child, he struggled to fit in, and as a teen, he decided he must be a lesbian. But that didn’t feel right either. Chaz just always felt like a man and suffered from the constant unsettling feeling that something just wasn’t right. So two years ago, Chastity announced that she planned to become Chaz.

Transition

Do You Long to Quit Your Job?

You hate your job. You despise your job, actually. You get sick to your stomach every Monday morning and the sense of dread doesn’t let up until TGIF Happy Hour. Okay, maybe you don’t TOTALLY hate your job. There is that cute guy in billing, you did work hard to get where you are so far, and the money is decent, even though you deserve more. But you can’t let go of that feeling that there’s something more.

You fantasize about quitting. You create elaborate scenarios in your head that involve telling your boss to take this job and shove it where the sun don’t shine. You visualize cleaning out your office, walking out the front door, unshackling your chains, and throwing debris up in the air as you start break dancing to the perfect soundtrack that rocks you right into the life your dying to live -- which is any life except this one.

Welcome back to the Overcoming Underearning series, inspired by my friend Barbara Stanny’s book Overcoming Underearning: A 5 Step Plan To a Richer Life. Now that you’ve figured out whether you’re an underearner and determined whether you’re a doer or a dawdler, I want to share with you what Barbara believes is the single most important piece of financial advice you’ll ever receive.

When I read this piece of advice, something in my gut went “PLUNK” because it resonated so completely with me. In fact, it’s what my new e-course Get Out Of Your Own Way: Free Yourself From Fear and Worry And Leap Into Your Dreams is all about.

When it comes to following our passions and skyrocketing, full throttle, towards our dream lives, most of us find ourselves slamming on the brakes. For me, that something was fear -- fear of financial ruin, fear of what people would think, fear of regret, fear of failure. That fear dominated my mind so fully that I stayed in a life that hadn’t resonated with me for over a decade, because the comfort of the status quo -- as miserable as it was -- was less scary than the uncertainty of the unknown.