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In PHQP 0017 Do The Scary Thing, Jeff explores the value of embracing fear to foster growth, sharing his experience of aiding a stranded dolphin and completing a grueling 50-mile walk. He discusses how doing the scary thing—whether big or small—sparks joy, builds resilience, and prevents stagnation, encouraging listeners to face their fears with intention and preparation. Episode Video Watch Now: PHQP_0017 Do The Scary Thing Episode Notes CCBAG_0682 Doing The Scary Thing–The Dentist CCBAG_0672 The Scary Thing With Tiffany Pearsall CCBAG_1138 More Scary Thing Talk (Plus Lactation And Grilled Cheese) CCBAG_1128 Scary Thing Resources Childhood Happens Once #26 The Do The Scary Thing Transcript Welcome to the Playvolution HQ podcast. I'm Jeff Johnson. Thanks for pushing play on with the show. So I'm basically a marine biologist now. This episode we're gonna get into talking about doing the scary thing and why that's important. And I had a chance to do a mildly scary thing yesterday, meaning new to me. I'd never done it before. And I think first time things kind of always fall under the scary thing category for us. And so I'm walking on the beach. It's just before sun up. And I see up ahead of me something along the shore, just kind of right there at the water's edge. And get a little bit closer and I realize it is a dolphin. And I think, okay, dead dolphin on the beach. I gotta call the turtle dolphin hotline and report it. And reach for my phone to start to do that. And then the dead dolphin splishes and splashes a little bit. And I thought, oh shit, this is not a dead dolphin. This is a live dolphin. See that marine biologist part. See, I can tell the difference between alive and dead. And this is kind of a bigger thing. And so I get the hotline person. I've got a call person that answers in off hours. And she says, oh wow, well let me get a hold of my direct supervisor and can you stay there for a while and help sort this out? I'm like, yeah, sure, I've got no place else to be. And so she messaged with her boss. She wants me to send her pictures and videos. And this dolphin, every minute or so, it's thrashing a little bit. And then she's like, okay, my boss is on the way. She's about 20 minutes away. And the rest of the team is gonna be there. Can you wade into the water and try to flip the dolphin upright, so it's kind of on its side, flip it upright so this blowhole is out of the water so that it can breathe. So this blowhole's out of the sand. I'm like, yeah, I can do that. She's like, be careful, it might thrash around and they've got very strong tails. I'm like, okay. And so I flip my shoes off and I wade out into the water and I get the thing flipped up on its side and I gotta hold it there with my leg to keep it from tipping back over again. So I'm holding it there and splashing water on it and saying, there, there, it'll be okay. Because I didn't know what else to say to the dolphin. And then the phone girl, she texts me back. She says, can you keep track of its breaths? And so I'm holding the dolphin up and keeping track of how many times it's breathing in a minute. And this goes on for about 30 minutes. And then the first response person shows up and she takes over. Look, dolphin probably died. I haven't heard back from them yet. They have very, very low survival rates when something like this happens. But it was a thing, a chance to do a little bit of scary thing because I'd never held a dolphin upright and counted its breaths before. So there's that. Early learning guy and marine biologist. It's a cute little blowhole. I'd be really happy if a little dolphin lived. Anyway, on with our one and only topic for this episode, doing the scary thing. Last episode, I mentioned that I was heading off on my 50 mile walk and I did that. I left about 4 p.m. in the afternoon and walked 25 miles in one direction basically and turned arou...