One Voice, One Vote – and the Sticker to Prove It!

Laura Biering | July 20, 2010 | 0 Comments

When I got up this morning, it was my intention to vote in the primaries here in Georgia. (The risk in that? Making oneself heard at the risk of being unheard.)

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.
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Inspiration from an E-mail?

Helen Medve | July 20, 2010 | 0 Comments

I must apologize to all of you. I wrote the following post, and thought I had set it correctly to post on the 12th of July. Apparently, I did something incorrectly and it didn’t post. I left shortly after writing this and just got back into town after twelve wonderful days in Colorado, visiting my Mom, [...]

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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Hot Cold Calls

Martha Carnahan | July 19, 2010 | 2 Comments

Rule-breaker that I am… today, I’m actually going to follow the concept that Laura (our wonderful Risk Guide) is teaching us about the power of taking risks. As she says, they don’t have to be huge risks. (This morning I risked letting myself sleep in very late, even though I have a lot to do. [...]

Martha Carnahan coaches entrepreneurs, leaders and marketers in the professional services world. She has noticed that taking risks, whether bold and scary or seemingly small (and easy to avoid) creates a fresh awareness of the joy, audacity and quiet reverence of a full-spectrum life. Its not just about doing more stuff its about hanging out more in the sweet spot of life. Visit Martha's website.
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Risk?

Mary Ann Taylor | July 18, 2010 | 1 Comments

Recently, I took a trip to Ireland with my husband and another couple.  We had a marvelous time in that beautiful country.  The people are so nice and friendly.  I love it there. We were in a very old thatched cottage where we were to have a traditional Irish meal and hear storytellers and traditional [...]

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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Boomerang Babies

Suzanne Bird-Harris | July 17, 2010 | 0 Comments

So far, I have just one. A boomerang baby is a baby you care for and nurture until s/he’s grown, send out into the world when it’s time, only to have him/her return home again. And again. And again. Mmmmm hmmmm… Funny thing is, I was wondering what I was going to write about this [...]

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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How Do You Do It?

Randy Foster | July 16, 2010 | 5 Comments

I missed my risk entry this month.  Totally missed it.  Two days later, I noticed.  This isn’t supposed to happen.  I should be able to handle all my commitments.  I don’t really have all that many.  I’ve pared down to the minimum.  There’s the kid — enough said about that — and then there’s the [...]

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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Asking for what I want

Roxann Souci | July 15, 2010 | 2 Comments

Once I had an employer who told me that he always gave me what I asked for, because he had learned that I only asked for what I needed, and that granting my request would be good for the company, as well as good for me. I wish everyone felt that way, because I believe [...]

Roxann Souci Roxann is an abstract painter who expresses her passion through her use of color. "I want to touch touch people's emotions with my art. I want to bring joy". At a pivotal time in her life, her fellow bloggers have been a source of strength and encouragement. Her artwork can be found at her on-line gallery. my website.
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One good joke that says it all

Claudia Brogan | July 13, 2010 | 3 Comments

Among the many surprises and gifts that I find, in being an aunt of two (pre-teen) boys, is that I get to be an audience member for endless strings of Joke-Telling practices.   I’ve mastered the truthiness of being “in the moment” to laugh along & encourage them….even when I’ve heard that joke a couple dozen times [...]

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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Profile Picture + One

Betsey Brogan | July 11, 2010 | 4 Comments

“The younger generation” has grumbled about how the average age on facebook is old enough to be grandparents. It didn’t start out that way. But as time goes on, more of us who have seen many more birthdays have found joy in reconnecting with long time friends. In our hectic lives it is time-saving to [...]

Betsey Brogan is on her way to creating World Peace - one massage at a time. On-site Chair Massage and In-Home table massage. Bringing Stress Relief to You.
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Turns out, you CAN go home again

Lesley Brogan | July 10, 2010 | 6 Comments

Just four words (and one hyphen) for you:            thirty-fifth high school reunion.  Need I write anything more for this Risk-a Day blog?  Well, sure, attending my 35th high school reunion was certainly a risk.  On all kinds of levels.  We live in Atlanta and I graduated from a high school in Central IL.  The [...]

Lesley Brogan is tethered to her village. The middle daughter of a middle daughter, she and her partner co-parent two boys (11 and 8) with their two dads. Life rarely seems easy, but in it, there is energy and wisdom -- and, it seems -- just enough humor to get the village through their days.
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