Your Best Opportunities Will Come From the Work You Almost Didn't Share

**Matthew Gottesman** (0:02)
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Welcome to episode 842 Your best opportunities will come from the work you almost did not share.
I thought this would be an interesting take, just from some of my own personal experience, and in conversations I've had with other creators, artists, founders, people who just, they took a leap of faith with something that they're like, I don't know if I should put this out, you know? And I think it's also a very good conversation to have because many of you might be sitting on work that you feel like, oh, it's not perfect, or which it doesn't have to be, or I don't know if I can share this with the world.
And it's so interesting, and I've talked about this before. It's funny how at the same time we want visibility for the stuff that we want to contribute. At the same time, you can also be scared of showing something that if you don't even have the audience yet, it's not gonna be seen as much anyway. You get to dip your toe into the water a little bit. But this is actually calling for something bigger, which is sometimes, and I've said this often, there are a lot of times, actually, I should say, people are waiting for the exact thing that you are wanting to contribute or post. And I've found that when there's a little bit of resistance and it's good work, post it. There were times that were, there was some work that I was like, okay, this is a new style, or this is something new, or this is something different. I'm like, just post it and see what it does. And it's crazy how it changed the whole trajectory for me. Or gave me a new framework, or a new perspective shift, or a new understanding of all of you.
You know, like, oh, that's something, a conversation you all want to have? Okay. You know, I've always had a relationship with God.
There were seasons, I think, where maybe it was, you know, maybe a little, like I felt like I was a little disconnected, but I've always had a relationship with God. And it's interesting how over the last couple of years, I just started, you know, integrating God a lot more into my content because it was always a part of my process. But I remember there were times when I'm like, you know, God is such a personal thing for all of us. It's about our own unique, you know, relationship. And I remember a mentor told me a very long time ago, like, you can never tell anybody how to have a relationship with God. That's a personal thing between the person and God. And so, anyway, so, you know, I, but I, but it is a part of my creative process. It's a part of who I'm becoming. It's a part of my personal development. It's a part of how I've also built my faith. And so incorporating some of that and then watching some of that go viral and then people reaching out because of that and saying, like, thanks for for talking about it. Or I've been at some different speaking engagements, sometimes 500, sometimes 1000 plus people, you know, or more.
And especially when they've been entrepreneurship, and somewhere in there, I bring up God, usually often. And I always get people afterwards asking, or not asking, but like just commenting and saying, you know, thanks for bringing up God. And I'm like, yeah, sure. Why? Why do you say that? And they're like, I don't know. You don't always hear that in some of these, the talks or the conversations in these types of like events. I'm like, well, God's very much a part of everything I do. So, and they're like, exactly. And so the point being is that those are times where I almost didn't share certain things, but it felt natural to do it anyway, so I did it. And it turned out to be some of the best opportunities ever. It yielded more opportunities, more connection, more relatability. You get where I'm going with that? So sometimes the pieces you're scared the most to launch, to put out, to share, might be the ones that the world is waiting for. And that's what we're gonna talk about in this episode. So a few different points here. Why the nervousness before sharing it is usually a signal, not a warning. Now, very hard to tell, right? Because we have this nervous system that knows when something is not good, and a nervous system that knows when something is good. And there could be a very fine line between the two, depending on how we're feeling in the system. I, myself, have been on a journey of understanding the nervousness in the last couple years of really what feels settled and peaceful, and what feels a bit off. And you don't have to understand what the bit off part means. You just have to listen to it, and maybe pull back or just wait and be patient. I also want to talk about why the work you almost held back is often the work that carries you, which is where I was kind of alluding to here a few minutes ago with my own work. Also, how the pieces were most tempted to hide are usually the most human. And that's interesting. Think about that.