Brave Your Fear

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Adji Cisse is a businesswoman. At 17 years old, she is the founder of Flawless Fro, a product line for Black girls and women embracing their natural hair. Adji is a great student, but that doesn’t mean she likes school.  She is an activist, using her voice to advocate for Black girls, for more kids to have opportunities that she has gotten. She is brewing confidence - the reliable kind that comes from knowing what she loves, how she adds value to the world, and what she stands for. She is a self-proclaimed procrastinator. She is scared of failure. She struggles with motivation. She is obsessed with TikTok. She is still perfecting her recipe. She is, so vibrantly, so brilliantly, and so unapologetically herself.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/blog/34

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Holly Austin is a coach. She loves kids, she loves teaching, she loves motivating, and she loves building courageous young leaders who seek challenge instead of fear. As the founder of Ready Set Row, a competitive rowing club for girls who want to pursue rowing in college, Holly combines data and metrics, and  the charge of organized emotions to make an impact on her athletes. She is a hard work role model. At 5’6” and only 145 lbs, she beat all odds and made the Varsity Heavyweight 8 at Harvard/Radcliffe in pursuit of a National Championship. As a mom during COVID, she drove a 33-ft RV for 2 months around America with her 8 and 6 year-old. Her purpose is to drive positive change. She is not shy about saying she wants to win. But it doesn’t stop at her. She will do everything in her power to help you win, too.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/blog/33

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Patti Phillips is the CEO of Women Leaders in College Sports. Her life’s work - and the mission of this robust and growing organization she has been running for over a decade - is to develop, connect and advance women in college sports. She played ball in college, was a color analyst on TV, and went on to live her childhood dream of being a coach. Now, she is a knockout keynote speaker, a possiblitarian, and a leader who leads leaders.  She values hard work. She overflows with passion. And above all of the powers she packs, Patti Phillips is a woman of action. As she says, leadership is hard. But hard doesn’t scare Patti. Not one bit.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/blog/32

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Alex Aust is a super-decorated lacrosse superstar - she was an All-American and national Champion at the University of Maryland, a World Cup Champion on the Women’s National Team, and a multi-year professional lacrosse player. She co-runs a business coaching the game to young girls, and during COVID pivoted to coaching and teaching fitness to women of all ages in her monthly membership program called The Sweat Life. She is an Under Armour athlete who is currently braving her fears in the sports Illustrated swim competition. She takes confidence seriously. She is obsessed with being on a team. She knows the power of leading by example. And lead she will.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/blog/31

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Cate Luzio is the Founder and CEO of Luminary, a collaboration hub for women who are passionate about professional development and expanding their networks. Cate is a long-time advocate for empowering women and girls. Right now, she focuses Luminary’s impact toward women in the workforce, in entrepreneurship, and in transition. For 20 years before all of this great and necessary work, Cate was in financial services, her last post as the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Multinational Corporate Banking for HSBC. No big deal. There, she managed $2 billion in revenue and teams in 72 countries. Whaaattt. Also, side note: She has visited more than 114 countries. She was named to Inc.'s 2019 Female Founders 100 List and has also been featured in the Financial Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Fast Company, Bloomberg, USA Today, and many more. Cate Luzio is a force for women, a consummate team player, a role model for impact, and a trailblazer looking for more trails.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/blog/30

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Denise Wiggins is a CEO. She has started and continues to run multiple multi-million dollar businesses including Einnaf Cosmetics, a global company that empowers women with great products, but also supports an ambassador program for any woman to drive her own business. Einnaf is Denise’s grandmother’s name - Fannie - spelled backward, and it’s not the only place Denise draws inspiration. All of her organizations put community - and community building at their center, in large part, because of the lessons Denise learned from her grandmother, lessons that helped Denise pull herself out of an abusive marriage, out of homelessness with three kids, and smack dab into a life she knew she was made for. With a belief in herself so strong you will feel it beating in your own chest, and a path to success that was forged in the face of fear, pressure and adversity, Denise will tell you how she did it. How she believed. How she planned. How she surrendered. How she got up. How she gave back. How she is ready, especially now, for the hard stuff that inevitably comes.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/blog/29

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Kylie Ohlmiller is one of the best lacrosse players in the entire world, graduating last year from Stonybrook Univeristuy after a career that saw the program go from being ranked #70 in the nation to #1. She broke a 17-year old NCAA DI record for career points, and 9 year old NCAA DI  record for career assists. She is now dedicating her game and her life to teaching and inspiring the next generation of girls. She is the kind of superstar that feels like she is your best friend. She chases. She works hard. She exepct obstacles and she demands risk. At Brave, we call that an underdog.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/28kylie

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Shana Renee is a 5-ft tall sports fanatic whose passion was triggered in her sports-loving family. She says she was lucky to have grown up in the 90s - “the best time for sports” - and has cultivated this love alongside a commitment to create way more room in the industry for the telling of important stories of Black athletes. She is a producer of content - writing, podcasting, and video. She is an expert on the intersection of sports and culture. Shana Rene is a major league badass.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/27shana

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Kerstin Anderson has always loved to sing. She always felt like an artist, but grew up in a family packed with parents who were into sports and science. Following her passion and using her voice, she came to NYC for college and after only 2 years, booked her dream job as lead role of Maria in the National Tour of The Sound of Music. Now, at 24 years old, she is on Broadway in My Fair Lady. She uses her voice to tell stories and her passion to fuel her resilience in a business filled with NOs. Kerstin is star twinkling, sparkling, streaking through the sky.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/26kerstin

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Jennifer Francis is the Vice Provost for Relay Graduate School of Education. She grew up in Chicago, attended boarding school in Vermont, Scripps college in California, and a life-changing semester at Spellman College in Atlanta, GA. With a graduate degree from USC, Dr. Francis talks to us on the eve of her second wedding. And when she talks, she doesn’t stay on the surface of anything. She is deep, she is proud, she has big reasons for interrupting, and bigger visions to disrupt in a way that fuels necessary, hard, important and uncomfortable conversations.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/25jennifer