‘CLIMB THAT MOUNTAIN’

Featured in 'The Brave Edition' of AwareNow Magazine (⁠www.awarenowmagazine.com⁠).

Written & Narrated by: Sonja Montiel

Music by: Idan Balas

Produced by: AwareNow Media

‘WE ARE ALL ACHIEVING’

Featured in 'The Brave Edition' of AwareNow Magazine (⁠www.awarenowmagazine.com⁠).

Written & Narrated by: Elizabeth Blake-Thomas

Music by: Yehezkel Raz

Produced by: AwareNow Media

‘BEYOND’

Featured in 'The Brave Edition' of AwareNow Magazine (⁠www.awarenowmagazine.com⁠).

Written & Narrated by: Burt Kempner

Music by: Ardie Son

Produced by: AwareNow Media

‘HOLD MY BEER’

Featured in 'The Brave Edition' of AwareNow Magazine (⁠www.awarenowmagazine.com⁠).

Written & Narrated by: Paul Rogers

Music by : Midtro

Produced by: AwareNow Media

While he doesn’t have a cape, this hero has a cause. Born with Treacher Collins Syndrome, Jono Lancaster had dedicated his life to helping others who look different to look deeper and to find love for themselves.

An artistic director and founder of a body-neutral professional dance company, a deaf ballerina, a chronic illness advocate, and homeschooling mother of 2 daughters, Bailey Anne Vincent is an invisible illness insurgent living with a progressive disease (a variant of Cystic Fibrosis). And yet, even with 5 robot parts, over 5 internal organs removed, and an ever evolving cycle of infections, treatments and interventions, she catches her breath and carries on.

After being shot 12 times the morning of Sept 6, 2018, in Cincinnati, Ohio and miraculously living to tell about it, Whitney Austin founded Whitney/Strong, an organization dedicated to finding common ground to end gun violence through data-driven, responsible gun ownership solutions.

Just a spoonful of Tina’s comedy helps the uncomfortability of discussing disability go down. Tina Friml, who lives with cerebral palsy, is a talented comedian who doesn’t avoid the subject of disability. Rather, she dives right in using humor to harness otherwise hard to talk about topics. She calls it like she sees it with a delivery about disability that doesn’t disappoint.

Jonathan Furlong is a Southern California native, best classified as a self-taught lifestyle and street photographer. Furlong is self-described as hyper-critical with an anxiety-ridden mind, constantly seeking ways to capture authentic beauty and chaos through the lens of photography. He embraces imperfections, true-to-life scenery, and candidness. To him, photography is the art of preserving moments for eternity, allowing those who experience his work to look into the past and to understand how it sets the stage for the future.

Capturing the beauty of humans and the moments that life gives to us is what Marisa Kimmel with her camera has dedicated her photography to. Finding comfort with her camera through self portraits that helped her find self love, Marisa redefined beauty for herself and for all who see her. In losing her hair to Alopecia and her breasts to a double mastectomy due to a BRCA genetic mutation, she found self awareness and self acceptance for a new beautiful version of herself.