My Rejection Story

Alice Draper

Booking Overview

This podcast features authors and performance/coach professionals reframing rejection to help listeners turn setbacks into momentum. For PR, it’s a strong fit for guests with a bestselling platform or credibility in coaching, writing, and performance psychology who can translate personal/rejection narratives into actionable takeaways.

Metrics

Episodes: 86

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 145 subscribers

Instagram: 238 followers

Contact Information

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Host

Alice Draper - In the podcast, Alice hosts and guides conversations about rejection resilience, reframing setbacks, and how those stories influence personal and professional success. She also appears in solo epis...

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Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Bestselling authors, recognized nonfiction/mindset coaches, and high-credibility experts in performance psychology (often with coaching/athlete or team experience). Guests should have a clear, personal-to-professional rejection arc plus a teachable framework or research-backed reframe.
Required Achievements:  
bestselling author status, founder/co-founder of a coaching or learning program, notable coaching roles (e.g., Olympians/military teams), major publication output (books), measurable track record in publishing or performance

Recent Guest Discussions

Steve Magness - Self-sabotaging Psychology, Choking Under Pressure, Predictive Brain/interoception And Anxiety, Community Support And Courage Training

Stacy Ennis - Self-rejection As The First Rejector, Author Launching Through Accountability, Guilt-free Breaks, ROI By Stage, And Early-stage AI Ideation Concerns

Recent Topics

Rejection, Self Sabotage, Performance, Writing, Coaching

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
My Rejection Story
:

The Ellsberg Paradox and Why It Is Kinder To Reject Someone

July 01, 2026

What if the kindest thing you can do for someone is reject them clearly, and the cruelest thing is to keep them hoping?In this solo episode, recorded from a Poddster booth at the 1 Billion Followers Summit in the UAE, Alice makes the case that a clean "no" beats a soft maybe every time. She opens with the situationship hot and cold, days of silence, then something romantic and the research that ambiguity hurts more than a clear rejection. She calls it the Ellsberg paradox: we prefer...

Steve Magness: Rejected by Every Agent, He Sold 80K Copies — A Performance Scientist's Guide To Rejection

June 24, 2026

What if the spirit of self-sabotage isn't weakness at all, but a quiet strategy to make sure a loss never truly feels yours? Alice is joined by Steve Magness — performance scientist, coach to Olympians and military teams, and the high-school phenom who ran a 4:01 mile, chased Roger Bannister's ghost, and never broke four. In his book, Win the Inside Game, he speaks about choking under pressure in sports and why talented people freeze the moment an audience shows up. But what makes Ste...

“The First Person Who Rejects Your Book Is You” with Non-fiction Book Coach Stacy Ennis

June 18, 2026

What if the first person to reject your book isn't a publisher — it's you?Alice is joined by Stacy Ennis — number-one bestselling author, founder of the Nonfiction Book School, and a writer who launched her career by deliberately collecting 29 rejections in 30 days. She talks about the second-grade rejection that branded her the "bad kid" in a tiny Christian school, the parent who bullied her in empty hallways, and the chip on her shoulder she's used ever since. But what...

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