# Balls and Brains: Chris Woods on Fear, Strengths and Reinvention Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/reignite-resilience-6398898/balls-and-brains-chris-woods-on-fear-strengths-and-reinvention Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/reignite-resilience-6398898/balls-and-brains-chris-woods-on-fear-strengths-and-reinvention.md Podcast: [Reignite Resilience](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reignite-resilience-6398898) Published: 2026-07-13T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/2196009/episodes/19477233-balls-and-brains-chris-woods-on-fear-strengths-and-reinvention.mp3 Audio file: https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/2196009/episodes/19477233-balls-and-brains-chris-woods-on-fear-strengths-and-reinvention.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/reignite-resilience-6398898/episodes/balls-and-brains-chris-woods-on-fear-strengths-and-reinvention Duration seconds: 1362 ## Resource Send us Fan Mail Overcoming fear starts with facing what holds you back and naming the strengths that move you forward. In this episode of Reignite Resilience, hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass sit down with Chris Woods, certified professional coach, author of Balls and Brains, and former four time global C-suite executive and Google sales leader, to unpack how fear shapes careers, relationships and self worth, and how to trade fear for strength. Chris grew up the youngest of five in a toug... ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/reignite-resilience-6398898/episodes/balls-and-brains-chris-woods-on-fear-strengths-and-reinvention/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/reignite-resilience-6398898/balls-and-brains-chris-woods-on-fear-strengths-and-reinvention.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.