The Risk of Juggling

By Carolyn Cook | February 23, 2010 | 2 Comments

Right now my life feels like a circus act.  I have two major professional projects going, my daughter is turning 13 at the end of the week, my mother needs my care and attention,  and I’m on deadline with some collaborators.
 I chose each of these circumstances.  I have chosen to be head-over-heels in professional work, [...]

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Carolyn Cook is a sometimes peaceful, sometimes frazzled individual who works to manage a household, homeschool a daughter, build a marriage, and explore the human condition through theatre. She is an actor, director, producer,and teacher, and serves as education director of Théâtre du Rêve, a company she founded in 1995 (more info at www.theatredureve.com).

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More on Truth

By Veronica Samoulides | February 22, 2010 | 1 Comments

So friends, last month I talked about having the courage and taking the risk to HEAR the truth….it really resonated for me.
This month, as usual, I voiced my intention to generate a topic and let it come…and, as usual, it did. This month, however, I did not make the time to put my thoughts [...]

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Veronica Samoulides is a recovering victim, blamer and self-pitying specialist. She’s bravely (usually) accepting her spirituality, her power and embracing her confusion. She lives in San Francisco with her equally confused husband, Greg.

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risking having/doing/being enough

By Laura Biering | February 20, 2010 | 4 Comments

Howdy from beautiful Georgetown, Texas, where Martha and I are visiting my folks.  I am here doing a little work, but mostly I’m vacationing.  And the little bit of work I’m doing, really feels like vacationing, so I am certainly not complaining!  Just yesterday, for example, we had tea in Austin with two of the [...]

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Laura Biering has an infectious zeal for coaching people who want to do enlivening work and live inspired lives. She's fired up about the power of taking risks - great and small - and the rewards that come as a result. She's also passionate about (1) creativity and authenticity and their potential to change the world, (2) frolicking with her adorable four-legged children, and (3) retreating with those she loves at her farm in Southeast Georgia, Brinson's Race. Visit her website at True Voices</a.

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In Praise of Julia Cameron

By Mary Ann Taylor | February 18, 2010 | 4 Comments

I guess I’m a person with talents. I have some talents – some more developed than others. I’ve always wanted to be able to draw/paint. My father could and I have wanted to be able to also. I have taken some classes in drawing and I showed some talent but nothing [...]

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Mary Ann Taylor is a retired banker who's embarrassed to be technoligically illiterate, but proud to be Laura's mother. She realizes that at her advanced age, she's done more risking than she has yet to do, but is willing to risk this.

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Risking Reporting In

By Suzanne Bird-Harris | February 17, 2010 | 5 Comments

In December, I wrote about being eyeball deep in risk. This month, I want to share with you a letter that my son wrote to me on Valentine’s Day. (Don’t y’all tell on me, cuz he’d be embarrassed.)

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Suzanne Bird-Harris would like to say she made the leap from Corporate America to web coach / WordPress developer on her own terms...but no, she lost her job after the CEO ran off with the 401K funds and went to jail. So, she started her own business with 3 kids, 2 dogs and a cat in tow on Dec. 6, 2002. It's been a wild ride, worth every risk, and she now proudly deems herself "pyschologically unemployable".

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Don’t Stop Believing

By Djuanna Brockington | February 16, 2010 | 4 Comments

A few days ago, I was heading up Interstate 26 to visit with my mother when I had a most interesting experience. I was actually slowing down because of construction, as you should do because people are working, when this feeling of warmth, well-being and gratitude came over me. It wasn’t until traffic was almost [...]

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Djuanna Brockington spends most of her time writing, reading books and blogs about writing, or thinking about writing because she is doing other things. Her family and friends seem to tolerate this behavior, in hopes that one day she’ll learn to be a bit more balanced. In the meantime, Djuanna continues to spend her days pounding out words on her beloved Macbook. Visit Djuanna's website.

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Today I Take These Risks

By Roxann Souci | February 15, 2010 | 5 Comments

I have taken many risks.  I have both celebrated and suffered the consequences of my actions. At this point in my life, the stakes seem so much higher, and the risks frighten me.  To be true to my essence,  I am convinced that these are risks I must take. Why today? I put everything else [...]

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Roxann Souci Roxann is an abstract painter whose works are meant to bring joy to the viewer & to offer a visual oasis from the aridity of daily life. "My work seeks to reach the intuitive in the viewer; to access the sensual; to provoke thought; and to delight the senses. Connecting emotionally is my focus, my goal". my website.

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Rebooting a Love Affair

By Randy Foster | February 14, 2010 | 5 Comments

How very fitting that I should be submitting my February risk on Valentine’s Day, for the risk I am taking now is in returning to a relationship that ended in 2008.  And not just any ending, I might add, but a spectacular flame-out, the details of which I am too embarrassed to describe here except [...]

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Randy Foster is a confused communications professional who was recently laid off from her job of 22 years, and thus unemployed for the first time in 34 years. She has no earthly idea what she wants to do with the rest of her life, but figured things can't get any riskier, so what the hell. Randy is also the single mother of a very high maintenance teen-aged daughter who remains the greatest risk of all.

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Diverging A Bit

By Claudia Brogan | February 13, 2010 | 3 Comments

As many other folks are mentioning here lately,  being a part of this community of Risk-Alert and gutsy folks is good for my spirit.  And I’m aware today of that risking-thing related to the latest way I’ve been employed (you know.. earning the bread and butter, or as I always say:  Heading to the office now [...]

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Claudia Brogan is a lifelong trainer and educator, having worked and taught at universities in student leadership, psychology, student advising, and counseling. Lately, she's foraying into doing training in the public health arena, which is a very different world indeed, a risk in itself! She'll try anything once, if it sounds fun, and so she’s joining this circle of resourceful, colorful, gutsy women – what the hell?! Claudia can be reached on Facebook.

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A Different Kind of Risk

By Helen Medve | February 12, 2010 | 3 Comments

When Laura recently asked me to be a part of this wonderful group of women, I was honored. I AM nervous. I have found inspiration and joy in reading the daily blogs, but, would “little ole me” have anything to say that might inspire or bring  joy to anyone? I am going to take that [...]

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Helen Medve is recently retired and is currently trying to figure out where her life will take her next. She wears many hats: wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, ex-professional person, friend. She is excited about where life will take her next, and invites you along on her journey.

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