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Ready to Try Something Bold? 🌙
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- Dec 22, 2025
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.com What It Really Takes to Pursue a Moonshot Let’s be honest. Ambition is exciting until you’re staring down the possibility that you might fall flat on your face. Moonshots bring that tension out of hiding. They ask more of us. They stretch us. They expose the gap between who we are now and who we’d need to become. Earlier this month, I stood on a TEDx stage in the Philippines and delivered a talk on career grief. That talk was a moonshot in the making for years and years. Not because of the stage or the lights, but because of what it represented: the courage to give language to something people feel but rarely name. A moonshot asks you to put truth above comfort. And that takes real effort. Here’s what I’ve learned: the bigger the moonshot, the more important it becomes to anchor yourself in your values and purpose. Otherwise you won’t have the clarity or stamina to go the distance. This blog is about how to find your version of a moonshot—one that isn’t based on external validation or cultural scripts, but on a deeper, spiritual part of you. Why Moonshots Matter (And Why They’re Hard) People often imagine a moonshot as some splashy public achievement. But moonshots don’t have to look grand to be meaningful. What matters is the stretch and taking you to the crusty edge of discomfort. The hard truth is, moonshots carry a high likelihood of failure. That’s what makes them moonshots. Effort increases. Uncertainty increases. The gremlins get louder. This is why values and purpose matter so much. They create the emotional spine you’ll lean on when things get wobbly (and I promise you, they will.) Without that spine, it’s easy to slip into playing small, pleasing others, or chasing outco…