Jun 30, 2026 · 3 min · 1 segments
In this powerful episode of Extraordinary America, host Cosmos sits down with Anne Bonney, a dynamic keynote speaker, two-time author, and host of the "Dancing in the Discomfort Zone" podcast. Anne's…
Anne BonneyGuest
Cosmos DarHost
Because we think of, and this is something I struggled with in high school when I went to boarding school.
And all of my friends had lived in the same town and done their community theater and taken voice lessons.
And I'm moving all over the world and never got a chance to do any of that stuff.
But in the end of the day, my definition of roots is my family, is that one thing that was consistent.
So it's so interesting as I talk to people like you and people like all of my friends that I grew up with moving all over the world, the different definitions we have and how that serves us so well.
So that brings up another mindset of redefining things for what they really are, not what we think they might be.
And that was me sitting in my parents' basement at 42 years old going, what did I just do? I just left my entire career behind.
But by putting myself in that uncomfortable position and now 10 years later, you know, figuring it all out and continuing to figure it all out.
But ultimately, even if all those things go away, I've created my identity within myself and I know I fit in wherever I go because I've put myself in those places.
I really think this is the key and the crux to that internal resilience and confidence.
No, but in business, you have to be okay with being uncomfortable and like your identity has to be malleable.
In fact, you have to have a deeper sense which goes beyond your external surroundings.
And I think one of the biggest things, because I mean, I've joked since I started my business that I vacillate daily between terror and elation.
But I think one of the things that's really important when we have lost the compass and we are at stormy seas is that we're not doing it alone.
There's so many resources, whether it's friends or family or podcasts or books or anything like that, to just know that we're not doing this alone.
We can go read something, find some insights that are going to help you move through it because we all go there.
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Because we think of, and this is something I struggled with in high school when I went to boarding school.
And all of my friends had lived in the same town and done their community theater and taken voice lessons.
And I'm moving all over the world and never got a chance to do any of that stuff.
But in the end of the day, my definition of roots is my family, is that one thing that was consistent.
So it's so interesting as I talk to people like you and people like all of my friends that I grew up with moving all over the world, the different definitions we have and how that serves us so well.
So that brings up another mindset of redefining things for what they really are, not what we think they might be.
And that was me sitting in my parents' basement at 42 years old going, what did I just do? I just left my entire career behind.
But by putting myself in that uncomfortable position and now 10 years later, you know, figuring it all out and continuing to figure it all out.
But ultimately, even if all those things go away, I've created my identity within myself and I know I fit in wherever I go because I've put myself in those places.
I really think this is the key and the crux to that internal resilience and confidence.
No, but in business, you have to be okay with being uncomfortable and like your identity has to be malleable.
In fact, you have to have a deeper sense which goes beyond your external surroundings.
And I think one of the biggest things, because I mean, I've joked since I started my business that I vacillate daily between terror and elation.
But I think one of the things that's really important when we have lost the compass and we are at stormy seas is that we're not doing it alone.
There's so many resources, whether it's friends or family or podcasts or books or anything like that, to just know that we're not doing this alone.
We can go read something, find some insights that are going to help you move through it because we all go there.