I feared my color. I feared being a woman. I feared mistakes, failure, and rejection. I even feared fear itself. Fear lives in people and it lives in companies. It drains innovation. It costs billions and it quietly it quietly breaks culture from the inside out. Growing up, I was taught that because I'm brown and female, I was going to have to work twice as hard, be twice as good, and never make mistakes. And maybe nobody said the never make mistakes part, but that's what I heard. Never make mistakes. Well, ...