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Rebecca Minkoff is a high-powered fashion designer and household name. She runs The Female Founder Collective, a nonprofit that supports women-owned businesses. She’s a mother of three young children. Her hair is glossy. She gives off the impression of someone who easily hails cabs and never spills a glass. She seems to have the life of the benevolent boss in a romantic comedy.

And she’s scared, most of the time. “There was always fear,” she tells Glamour, of the decades she spent making a name for herself in fashion. She was scared when she launched her company. As it grew, she sometimes failed, she was admonished, she was discouraged. The trick, she says, is not that she perfectly mastered the fear. It’s that she felt it, accepted it, and went ahead anyway. “I didn’t let it stop me,” she says.

In her new book, Fearless: The New Rules for Unlocking Creativity, Courage, and Success, Minkoff shares some of her tricks for taking big risks in a scary world. “Fear is a normal human emotion that can keep us safe, but if you let that same feeling overtake you when you’re trying to

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