How A Perfectionist Found The Courage to Collaborate

Growth truly happens outside your comfort zone

Yan Huang
4 min readJan 9, 2023
Photo by Oliver Cole on Unsplash

Tinkering with the idea of partnerships and collaborations have been on my mind for a long time. But I often let the fear of rejection get the better of me, perhaps missing out on multiple golden opportunities. This led me to be a “lone-ranger” most of the time.

This year, as I tuned into my inner calling and sought to pivot my health and well-being business from women’s health to serving cancer survivors (it’s still a work in progress by the way), I started feeling more open to partnerships and collaborations.

I have not figured out a full game plan yet as to how this might pan out in 2023 but it’s all right. These days, I learned to trust more with the guidance of the journey, rather than relying on the surety of rushing to the end.

Several months back, I started toying with the idea of podcasting to my creative projects via Substack or launch an entire new podcast show on Apple and Spotify. But I held back as I got demotivated by the number of creative projects I launched during the pandemic but seemed to show no noteworthy results. (YouTube, Blog writing on Medium, Newsletter on Substack, creating course programs.)

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Yan Huang
Yan Huang

Written by Yan Huang

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