The speaker, a self-proclaimed "born worrier," talks about their struggles with anxiety and how they've learned to view it as a positive force. They share how their anxiety affects their personal and professional life, and how they've developed a "dual personality" to cope with it. The speaker reveals that they've started a YouTube channel as a "fear project" to address their fear of being in front of a camera, and it has helped them conquer their anxiety and increase their happiness. They encourage the audience to take on their fears, create their own "fear projects," and become "fear fighters" to live a more productive and fulfilling life.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The speaker has always had anxiety and has been a "born worrier."
2. The speaker owns and runs a PR agency in Australia.
3. The speaker started their own PR agency at the age of 27, despite many people telling them it couldn't be done.
4. The speaker's teachers told them they wouldn't amount to much and would struggle in university.
5. The speaker went on to university and graduated with honors.
6. The speaker worked as the national publicity manager for the biggest record company in the world for eight years.
7. The speaker's husband, Phil, is a professional musician and a great guitarist.
8. Phil is also a "professional hobbyist" who enjoys surfing, cooking, gardening, and fishing.
9. Research has shown that 40% of the things we worry about never happen, 30% are in the past and can't be helped, 12% involve the affairs of others, and 10% relate to sickness or imagined sickness.
10. Only 8% of the things we worry about are likely to happen.
11. The speaker created a YouTube channel to address their fear of being in front of a camera.
12. The speaker's YouTube channel has had hundreds of thousands of views.
13. The TEDx organizer who invited the speaker to talk was a viewer on their YouTube channel.
14. The speaker's anxiety levels have decreased and their happiness has increased since conquering one of their fears.