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Be MORE of who you were meant to be with an in-depth stress transformation, performance, and confidence course.
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Anyone feeling stuck, stressed, overwhelmed
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People experiencing a crisis of confidence or going through major life changes
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Leaders wanting to show up as their best, most authentic selves
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High achievers suffering from imposter syndrome
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Anyone feeling stuck, stressed, overwhelmed
Students and young professionals experiencing a crisis of confidence or going through major life changes
Leaders wanting to show up as their best, most authentic selves
High achievers suffering from imposter syndrome
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Masterclass
About the Course
The FEAR[less] Masterclass tackles the multi-faceted impact stress and anxiety have on our lives and empowers you with the skills to rewire your brain and transform any fear into rocket fuel. Whether you’re experiencing imposter syndrome, stress, difficulty setting boundaries, people-pleasing, a challenging transition [hello college, new job, AI integration or something else -there’s a lot of ways stress and anxiety show up!], this course will empower you to leverage stress energy to your advantage.
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Dr. Heiss’s acclaimed newest book: SPRINGBOARD
Participants will receive a full digital copy of Springboard. Backed by decades of research, this book provides a detailed roadmap for profoundly changing our professional and personal lives. With surprising truths gleaned from proprietary research, case studies, and interviews, this compelling narrative imparts fresh, actionable tools and tests that anyone can use to channel their peak performance.
Masterclass Workbook
This 150+ page workbook and journal offers intensive, self-led activities to embed behavioral change. Each chapter contains module-specific exercises for each video that move participants from learning to application.
9 Videos
The FEAR[less] Masterclass is broken into 9 interactive videos leveraging micro-learning principles. Each bite-sized lesson includes suggested reading, journaling prompts, discussion questions and a micro-learning video that spans 5-15 mins, ensuring that multimodal learners can maximize their growth.
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Connect with others in the Masterclass, ask questions, and find support with other like-minded individuals.
Working in leadership roles at Apple, LEGO, Motorola, and HP, Simone knows firsthand the thrill of working at the top of your game, as well as the demands of managing a family and a career. Having traveled the world for business and delivered corporate programs in over 60 countries, Simone is no stranger to leading high-performers. She brings energy, experience, authenticity, and warmth to her coaching role to help each of us define and meet our goals. She loves helping people find work/life balance, and transform their careers by harnessing their strengths.
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Explore how to get out of rumination and move forward through the fear.
The Curriculum
The Lie That's Sabotaging Your Success
This foundational section challenges conventional wisdom about stress management and explores how traditional approaches often fail or even make stress worse. You’ll explore the concept that stress isn't inherently harmful—rather, it's the belief that stress is harmful that creates negative outcomes and how stress serves as a "meaning barometer," pointing you toward what matters most in life.
- Analyze the connection between your personal stressors and your core values/meaningful life domains
- Evaluate your current beliefs about stress and identify which beliefs may be limiting your performance
- Embody the research demonstrating that stress-is-enhancing mindsets produce better health and performance outcomes than stress-is-debilitating mindsets
Our stress response is a feature – not a bug. But we do need a new model to work with it in order to stop fighting against it. This chapter walks through the 10,000 ft. overview of the Fear[less] Stress Model introducing each stage – the tiger, transfer and trajectory as steps to harness our stress energy.
- Understand the power of stress mindset and distinguish between stress experience and interpretive patterns/beliefs
- Compare personal patterns with high-performer patterns
- Synthesize a personalized stress mindset profile for our current and future selves.
It’s not a tiger!
A deep dive into the first component of the FEAR[less] formula—acknowledging stress without resistance. Participants learn why their brains treat modern challenges (social situations, performance pressure, future uncertainty) like ancient physical threats. The "three-minute rule" helps recognize that most stressors won't actually cause harm in the immediate timeframe their stress response is designed for. Through "tiger training" exercises, and inviting the “tiger to tea” participants build stress tolerance.
- Distinguish between actual threats and "paper tigers" (modern stressors that feel dangerous but aren't life-threatening)
- Demonstrate the ability to acknowledge and process stress energy through physical or emotional techniques rather than avoiding or suppressing it
- Build your capacity to perform under stress through intentional practice
Energy Transfer
Ever had someone tell you to “just calm down?” Yeah, how did that work out? This chapter explains how rather than trying to eliminate it, we can work with our stress, recognizing that anxiety and excitement exist at the same physiological arousal level. Discover how curiosity can interrupt fear responses and practice somatic anchoring techniques (power poses and phrases) to help your body begin to use that stress energy in your favor rather than against you.
- Transform high-arousal situations from anxiety to excitement using curiosity questions and positive interpretation techniques
- Create and utilize a personal "power move" to anchor confident stress responses
- Apply the principle that energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred, to redirect stress energy toward enhanced performance rather than paralysis
Each section builds systematically toward helping participants view stress as fuel for achievement rather than an obstacle to overcome.
Trajectories of Action
With our butterflies now in alignment, this chapter teaches the final component of the FEAR[less] formula—channeling stress energy toward meaningful action. Participants learn to avoid the "overwhelm death spiral" by focusing on trajectory goals rather than outcome goals. Explore the "cost of inaction" and understand how to use the Winner's Cycle to keep your stress energy moving forward.
- Design trajectory planning systems that break overwhelming goals into micro-actions you can control 100%
- Build a personalized Winner's Cycle through dopamine-driven momentum
- Connect your stress and goals to community, recognizing how your challenges can strengthen relationships and serve others beyond yourself
Understanding Your Springboard
You know that final ping from your email that just broke you? I’m willing to bet it wasn’t the email itself, but the constant barrage of multiple stressors hitting you at once. The reality is that most people are juggling multiple major stressors simultaneously – some immediate like the email, but others embedded from their childhood, or chronic stressors that add to the overall load. This chapter helps us unpack the multitude of stressors that affect us on a day to day basis, and how we can calibrate our individual stress signatures to work for us.
- Create a personal "Stress-Performance Profile" identifying your unique stress zones and develop strategies to transform hindering stress into enhancing stress
- Master emotion transfer techniques across different intensity levels, demonstrating ability to consciously shift between anxiety, excitement, and productive anger
- Build and clearly understand your stress springboard using scientifically validated tests to explore stress from 4 unique angles.
Growing Through Challenge
This chapter introduces post-traumatic growth and applies its principles for everyday challenges. You’ll create a personal mission statement and learn to connect current stressors directly to your deeper purpose and values. Stress becomes not something to endure, but rather raw material for developing the person you want to become.
- Develop a personal mission statement and create purpose-driven stress maps that connect your three major current stressors to meaningful personal growth and service to others
- Apply post-traumatic growth principles proactively
- Extract meaning and growth from challenging experiences through deliberate meaning-making practices
Learned Hopefulness
When we get stressed, anxious and overwhelmed it’s our natural tendency to shut down. This is referred to as learned helplessness. But there is an antidote - Learned hopefulness. This chapter teaches you to maintain agency during overwhelming circumstances by balancing realistic acknowledgment of challenges with unwavering belief in eventual success. You’ll create comprehensive hope cultivation systems including hope anchors and barrier jumping exercises for when things feel insurmountable. The section emphasizes hope as active agency rather than passive optimism, building practical skills for maintaining forward momentum during difficult periods.
- Overcome learned helplessness patterns by designing and implementing micro-experiments that rebuild confidence in your ability to influence challenging situations
- Apply the Stockdale Paradox to current challenges, demonstrating ability to simultaneously confront brutal facts while maintaining evidence-based belief in eventual success
- Develop and activate personalized hope cultivation systems that maintain agency and possibility during intense stress periods through practical tools and community support
Fear(less)ly Forward
The culminating chapter brings all the learnings together helping us commit to lasting change. Afterall our relationship with stress is an ongoing practice with which we’ll engage for the remainder of our lives.
Lucky us! Truly.
What to Expect
Harness your mindset around stress to use it to your advantage, rather than allow it to hold you back. Find new energy and creativity where there once was fear and empower yourself to reach bold new heights personally and professionally.
A Shift towards Happiness
Take advantage of decades of research and experience in positive psychology boiled down to simple, immediate shifts you can make to measurably increase joy as you integrate with your truest self. Manifesting isn't magic. It's science we all have access to. Learn how to find joy in what you do.
Lasting Confidence
With goal-setting techniques based on our hormonal profiles, we can learn what really motivates us to hit those goals, push through barriers, and continue to strive toward our full potential, even as we balance our lives with better boundaries, habits, and powerful thoughts. Build your confidence to be and show your best self.
Download the first chapter of SPRINGBOARD