We had the good fortune of connecting with Morgan Field and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Morgan, how do you think about risk?
In my second book—Powerful As Fuck, I have an entire section about The Alchemy of Fear. In that section I share how you can leverage fear and use it as a tool of transmutation acting as a catalyst to unleash more and more of your inner power with each risk you take. You can literally change the entire trajectory of your life and assume new identities one decision at a time as you choose to lean into fear. Here is a partial excerpt with some adlibs from that section as it relates to this topic of how risk has played an essential role in my life and career: “Your personal relationship with fear is either going to be one in which you are anchoring your power in or one in which you are hemorrhaging power as fast as blood flowing from a direct cut of a main artery. If you fear something, you will give it more power. If you avoid and or ignore fear, you will give it more power. If you focus on your fears or on what you don’t want, then you are giving those things more power. If fear has the power, you do not. One of my favorite quotes that illustrates the power of leaning into fear is by Joseph Campbell when he says, “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” If you feel the fear and do it anyway, you can finally truly dance with your dreams. Face the very thing you are afraid of. Do the very thing you don’t feel “ready” to do. When you do this you allow fear to come along for the ride but you make it sit in the back seat while your dreams and courage take the wheel. When you lean into fear, you will uncover one of the most profound sources of power—a sustainable, unshakable power that can fuel your dreams. Fear is truly the birthplace of a new you. In order to leverage the power of fear, you need to decide ahead of time what your relationship to and agreement with fear is going to be. If you do not make this clear choice in advance, you will default to letting fear take the wheel. If you wait to make agreements and negotiate with fear as it is presented to you, you will notice a pattern where your subconscious mind lures you into choosing comfort over dreams. “Tomorrow sounds real good for that dream opportunity,” your fear mind will tell you, “but today we’re going to pass.” “Let’s choose comfort just this once, eh?” Even though we know damn well that it is never “just this one time.” My own personal upfront agreement with fear is that when it emerges I lean in. When something comes up and I don’t feel “ready” to take on that opportunity or challenge, I say yes. I lean in to the stretch and dance with my fear. I choose to snuggle with my inner demons instead of ignoring them and letting them rule me. I’m all, “Come here, you cute little limiting belief. Let’s cuddle and talk about it!” I have become known for these agreements with myself. It puts me in some interesting situations, and it invites others into epic stretch moments as well. From skydiving to swimming with sharks, from writing books that air all of my darkness to the entire world to bungee jumping off one of the highest bridges in the world, from a five-day mountaineering trip (that involved a glacier, mountain goats, and a couple of toenails lost) to walking with lions in South Africa, epic adventure is the name of my game. I’ve also taken the leap from the corporate world and left a very lucrative and secure career so that I could start my own business with no true proof of concept before doing so because it was what my intuition was guiding me to do. I sold and donated the majority of my things and started over—relocating from my hometown of Oak Park Illinois, a suburb right outside of Chicago, to move to Miami where I knew almost no one. Why? Because my heart and soul called me to do so. No logical reasons other than palm trees, beach, sun and no winters. Ok, actually those sound like pretty logical reasons now, but at the time of the leap my logical mind thought I was crazy and was terrified to move across the country but I did it anyways. The truth is we are always receiving invitations of expansion from our fear. We just have to have the courage to be willing to pay attention, listen, and say yes to snuggling with our demons. For example, one day about four years ago I received an invitation to fear that changed my life. A friend of a friend reached out and said that he had learned I was coming to his hometown for the weekend. He had heard a rumor about my agreement with myself to face my fears, so he invited me to join him on stage at a stand-up comedy open mic. I was immediately flooded with fear and resistance. Right before I could get an excuse out of my mouth, a little intuitive whisper reminded me of my upfront agreement with myself. I reluctantly said yes and then spent the next few weeks subconsciously leveraging the shadow side of my imagination. I dreamed up all the ways I could get myself out of the agreement. As the event got nearer, my worst-case scenario stories got more and more creative. One of my favorite and most ridiculous stories that I made up was when I envisioned the audience throwing tomatoes at me. I had had enough of my own stalling tactics by that point. I leaned in. I decided to commit and be all in. On the day of the event, I was still terrified and freaking out. I kept reminding myself that the intersection of terrifying and exhilarated is where the most epic growth exists. I was mentally pumping myself up and trying to remember to breathe as the emcee took the stage. He said, “What you will notice on the tables in front of you are tomatoes. We ask that if someone sucks you boo them and throw the tomatoes at them.” Whaaaaat??? Wait… WHAT???!! I shit you not. I cannot make this up! Now, granted, they were not actual tomatoes; they were foam tomatoes. But even I hadn’t thought about the fact that they would boo me while I was up there. This was a unicorn—a rarity of a sighting in life where the worst-case scenario is actually worse than the wildest imagining of worst-case scenarios. I had to keep reminding myself to breathe. I could feel my frontal cortex going offline continuously, and I had to keep trying to get it to come back on. As defined by Wikipedia, the frontal cortex is the part of the brain that is responsible for functions such as “planning for the future, judgement, decision making skills, attention span, and inhibition.” You don’t need to know the terminology. You just need to know that I was freaking the f*ck out!!! The only thing keeping me sane was knowing that soon I could take the stage and have my turn. Then it would be over. Four hours later, the second-to-last person of the evening to take the stage was me. Man, when life wants to gift you growth it sure does go big, eh?! I had to keep calming down the mind chatter swirling inside my head. I had to fight myself continuously for four hours to not fall prey to the endless excuses that plagued me as to why I should leave. One of my favorite excuses that the fear chatter offered up was that I could just leave and never speak to any of these people ever again. The guy who had invited me was a friend of a friend. I didn’t technically know him. Everyone else I had just met, so I could just drop off the face of the planet and problem solved! Yay for the fear mind’s solutions! Except for one incredibly important detail that was missing from that “solution.” If I had left, I would have known about it, and I would not have been proud of Who I showed up as that day. So I stayed, surviving the battle between my head and heart for those four hours. I took the stage and blacked out. Not literally like back in my drinking days. In fact, on this day I was stone cold sober due to my commitment to live life fully present. But, figuratively, I blacked out. I did my piece, and then I got off that stage as quickly as I could. I had no idea how to gauge what had happened other than celebrating that there were no tomatoes thrown and no one booed me. But what happened next caught me so off guard. It changed my life forever. The gentleman who took the stage after me said, “Well, ladies and gentlemen, she may not be a comedian, but she sure is one of the best public speakers I’ve ever seen.” Wait, what? What did he just say? Who was he talking about? Me? Public speaker? What? Whaaaaat?? Later I watched the video that the friend of the friend had recorded. Sure as shit, you couldn’t even tell how nervous I was. In fact, I even appeared to be having a lot of fun and looked super comfortable on stage. My mind was blown. In that moment, a public speaker was born. Why am I sharing this story with you? Because your fear mind will have you believe that you need to become a version of you first, in order to be “ready” to step into opportunities that come your way. The actual truth is that you become a new version of you by doing the shit that you do not feel “ready” to do. You grow with confidence and expand into a more unshakable and powerful version of you by doing the very thing you are afraid of. Walking into fear is the birthplace of the new reference points that you need in order to become the new version of you that you are craving to uplevel into. Although vision work is a powerful tool, you cannot merely think yourself into a new version of you. Although reading is also a powerful tool, you cannot merely read books and study your way into an upgraded identity. You have to do the work. You cannot pay someone else to do it for you. I can assure you, absolutely nothing is a substitute for the action of facing your fears and feeling your way into experiencing new versions of you.” There is a powerful quote by Jon Krakauer from his book Into the Wild that truly embodies the essence of the sentiment of the power of risk and it’s vital essence to a live life fully lived: “Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.” Here are some additional free resources that illustrate the importance of taking risks, and how doing so can truly impact your life and career: TEDx Talk— Power is an Inside Job— How to make sure you are truly living a life on your own terms, and not just on an auto-pilot set by the terms of the world around you. (11 minutes.) https://youtu.be/f0lXXdfRzj0
Pechakucha Miami—How to use fear to return to joy. Change your relationship with fear. Seek out fear, lean towards it, and prioritize joy. (6 minutes.) https://youtu.be/FqPXmIWZy20

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
I am the best-selling 9 time award-winning author of the books Epic Sexy You, and Powerful As F*ck. I am an intuitive life coach, Medium, TEDx speaker, and keynote motivational speaker. I work with clients all around the world—private sessions, retreats, immersion weekends, live events, online group coaching, etc. My mission is to inspire women to make themselves priority number one, to be true to themselves, and follow their own unique path to become more soulfully awakened and empowered every single day of their existence. I play in the artistry of alchemy, turning subconscious blocks into catalysts for forward movement—alchemizing your darkness, your fears, and your comfort zone into the playground of light that guides your path of metamorphosis and stretches you into to a whole new world of infinite possibilities. I think the biggest differentiators between me and other coaches, speakers, and writers are: 1. I am a life coach and a Medium / Psychic. I leverage my life coaching background to help clients create new neural pathways that are in alignment with what you truly desire and then I use my soul gifts of being a Medium and Psychic and I channel through messages that your spirit guides want you to know in order to help guide you on your path of expansion and joy in the most direct and expedited way. 2. I am a joy factory. Most people when they first encounter me think there is no way that I am as happy as I appear, because to them the levels of joy that I access are as mystical as a unicorn. While I have my moments and days, the joy you see is truly genuine, and it is possible for you to access these levels too. That is what I often focus on with clients, to help them shed fear, return to joy, and enjoy the ride of the never ending portals of expansion that are available to us in this lifetime. I work with people at the very beginning of their journey of awakening, as well as those deep inside their transformation and expansion portals, and even the most epic imprinters who came here to shake the world up and touch millions of lives. 3. My ability to transmute fear—for myself and others—is unlike any other. One of my soul gifts is to be able to see your soul’s essence. I am able to see your light and your soul gifts, and I can also see your shadows—most importantly I can see the parts of you that you have yet to uncover that are your most powerful layers, as well as what you are hiding from the world and even what you are hiding from yourself. I am able to sit in the darkness, sit with the shadows, and hold space for you without doing the work for you so that you can truly get the expansion you crave—I cannot describe to you how rare this is, I even teach it to other life coaches in an Intuitive Life Coach Training program that I host every quarter.

Any great local spots you’d like to shoutout?
I sooooo love everything about Miami—hanging at the beach, top down cruising, hanging by a pool, eating so much yummy delicious food, staying active outdoors, etc. Yet with staying in the alignment of the topics of risk and expansion, here are some of my fave things to do in the Miami and surrounding areas. 1. The Flying Trapeze School is absolutely amazing and exhilarating. You can take the risk of leaving the comforts of certainty on the ground. Climb the ladder to the top. Face your fears. Leap from the ledge and surrender to the ride. This is truly an example of an experience where terrifying meets exhilarating and you walk away a new person every time. 2. Goat Yoga with Downward Goat at Erinwood Farms is only a 30 to 45 minute drive from Miami and is a completely unique one-of-a-kind experience. Take the risk of getting your mat “blessed” by a goat, risk your shirt and hair getting nibbled on as you giggle, embrace the possibility of a goat jumping onto your back, and sit back with anticipation as you see which goats decide to come snuggle with you! Truthfully I go to snuggle the goats. The snuggle is real y’all! 3. Hang gliding in Clewiston Florida at the Florida Ridge Airsports park is unbelievable. When you have a whole day off to take an adventure this is such a blast! It is about 2 hours north of Miami but the experience is worth the drive. Take the risk to soar among the birds and fly free as you ride the wind. I can promise you that if it scares you it will expand you! 4. Day Breaker is one of my favorite communities and experiences in Miami! It is a sober dance party that starts with a yoga class and then you shake your ass. Dare to be yourself, fully present, and connect with like minded souls shaking it on the dance floor and letting loose. I have yet to find any other community of people that even comes close to the unbridled authenticity and love and joy. Be ready for lots of giggles and hugs!! 5. Spoken Soul Festival. This organization “produces free events and outreach programs in the greater community where the arts are used to collectively and creatively cultivate civic engagement.” The experiences are expansive and empowering—supporting female artists, creatives, and advocacy thoughtleaders throughout South Florida. The heartbeat of the mission is the founder Deborah Magdalena who has a fire in her soul unlike anything I have ever seen. She is passionate and courageous and an absolute force to be reckoned with. Each and every year she pours her heart and soul into curating experiences that expand the possibilities for women to truly thrive, highlighting some of Florida’s hidden gems and lighthouses that are making waves and imprinting their divine light onto the world with their art, their passion, and their own world shaking missions. Spoken Soul Festival was awarded “Best Place To Meet Intelligent Women” by Miami New Times’ BEST OF MIAMI, and when you attend an event I can assure you that you will feel the honor and credibility of that awarded recognition.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
The truth is, the more you face your fears the less power they have over you. The more you turn towards joy the more joy you will experience in life, and the more fear you will bump up against. For me flying on a trapeze is the most delightful intersection of fear and joy—each time learning a new trick, stretching my mind and body into new possibilities. I absolutely believe that when it comes to the art of taking risks it is essential to have partners in shine that help you stretch and grow further than you would if you were to take the solo route to the journey of expansion. One of my favorite partners in shine in expanding my mind—facing my fears and taking risks that both my body and my mind are skeptical AF about—is the incomparable leader of the Flying Trapeze School, Marc, located here in Miami. Let me give you an example… Marc: Ok, great…. now let go. (He tells me this while I am hanging upside down in the split position, face down.) Me: You want me to face plant???? Marc: Yes. (No hesitation. As if he asked me to pass the salt and pepper.) Me: (Inside my head…. “Oh what the f*ck, why not, ahhhhhhhhh”…as I release the bar I fall to the inevitable face-plant into the net, and then giggle once I realize that I didn’t die like my fear mind said I would.) Here is the thing… Marc is a real person, and he is a metaphor for life y’all! If life is asking you to let go and make a trust fall, just surrender! Surrender!!! Surrender, scream, giggle, question your sanity, let go, and enjoy the ride!!! Weeeeeee!!! Truth be told that without Marc stretching me I would not have ever thought to let go of a flying trapeze and intentionally face-plant into a net—for obvious reasons, eh? I mean the logical mind has a million reasons that that is insane. The fear mind is very helpful in explaining all of the ways you could hurt yourself and or die if you take risks. Yet, when you do the very thing you are afraid of, you get to see that fear truly is just an illusion. Ok, to be fair, sometimes the worst case scenario does happen, and you find yourself on a stage with people in the audience who are encouraged to boo you and throw tomatoes at you. Yet when you survive through it and come out the other side a new person you realize that all invitations to fear are in service to your expansion. Risks are an essential asset in your growth both personally and professionally. Give yourself permission to find your own personal intersections of life where joy and fear meet, go there again and again, snuggle with your demons and watch your world transform! Create a life you love! You’re so worth it!! And I encourage you to stretch yourself, face your fears, and take a turn on the Trapeze! Go see Marc at Miami’s very own The Flying Trapeze School and experience firsthand the expansion into new possibilities!

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