Perception is funny. Some people would think twice about running barefoot in the Amazon rainforest or depleting their bank account almost into the negatives to fund their own TV pilot. However, to me, the idea of permanence was much scarier. The bravest thing I’ve ever done was get married. I met Dave...
Read MoreI worked long hours — as do many others — in the demanding industry of corporate design and architecture. The hours were worth it, though, as I was passionate about design and about discovering myself in my career. Surrounding the birth of my first child, though I welcomed the new role of...
Read MoreWhen asked to reflect on the word brave and the bravest thing I have ever done, I think I am in the process of it now. I am starting my own business: The Rainbow Butterfly Café (creating Artistic Treats to nourish the mind, heart and soul). Nothing in my life has felt scarier...
Read MoreAfter living in Chicagoland my entire life (through college), I moved out to California 2 weeks after I graduated from college with no job and no real family base of support. My parents didn’t think I was actually going to do it and I never went back. ~ Charlie Jordan Brookins SVP, Original...
Read MoreIt’s hard for me to state the bravest thing I’ve ever done. I feel like the act of bravery is getting the butterflies in the stomach, the shortness of breath, the irregular heartbeat. Similar to the feeling you get when you are doing something you know is horrible. Some things that I say...
Read MoreI’ve given birth without pain medication to a 9 1/2 pound baby boy, been in the eye of a signal 5 typhoon in the Philippines and nearly struck by lightning, and left an abusive relationship with only my baby boy and the clothes on our back… but the bravest thing that I’ve...
Read MoreCat, what’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done? The bravest thing I ever did was decide, with my husband, to try adopting another child after losing our son to the process. We were matched with our son, Sam, and his birth mother in April, and he was born at...
Read MoreLinda, what’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done? Those two words still resonate in my mind: “It’s cancer.” My bravest moment was making the decision to jump in 100% and fight stage 3 metastatic thyroid cancer. I was told I might never sing again and I just couldn’t accept that. Four surgeries and two...
Read MoreComika, what’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done? Before I went to college I spent a year working with Rhodessa Jones’ theater program for women in the San Francisco jail system, THE MEDEA PROJECT. It wasn’t the bravest thing I ever did because of the environment, although that was definitely intimidating...
Read MoreRobyn, what’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done? I’d say the bravest thing I’ve ever done is skydiving… It was the most scared I’ve ever been in my life but it ended up being one of the most amazing feelings I’ve ever experienced. The adrenaline of jumping out of a plane and...
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