Are you a risk taker? Do you think you have a stronger appetite for risk relative to your friends and family? We asked some folks from the community about their approaches to risk and have shared their thoughts below.

Dale & Tonya Ferguson | Wellness Educators with doTERRA International

8 years ago, we took a leap. A BIG ONE and our family and friends either though we were super cool or really crazy….and we were, both I mean. What started as a small, homebased, mommy needs an outlet business, quickly turned into so much more, and changed our path forever in the best of ways. I was a stay at home mom of 4 on the hunt. I was seeking safe, natural, easy to apply, affordable health solutions for my family – easier said than done. Read more>>

Janny Taylor | Artist, Author, Life Coach

I see risk as an inherent part of life. You can’t explore, dream or discover without risk, so I do take risks, calculated risks. One of the biggest, most important risks I’ve taken was to resign, to quit, to move away from a truly remarkable job in corporate America where I was making a fair sum of money and enjoying the perks of being a part of that world. That said, I had a personal dream. To illustrate and write a book. Everyone, with the exception of my husband, thought that I’d lost my mind. Read more>>

Pilar Weidman | Realtor with the Phoenix House Hunters Team

I am a huge believer that the universe only rewards those who take risks in life. I think many who play it safe do so because of the risks of failing but do not understand that failing is how we learn, grow, and become even better. I have failed many times throughout my young adult life and now at 31 with 5 years of having my real estate license I can tell you NOTHING is more painful than being stuck where you do not belong. For me that was not using my full protentional and only day dreaming of what a successful life looks like. Read more>>

Elizabeth Moore | Professional Artist/Business Owner

Already picking art as my career is risky enough but being fired from my last job at age 19, I honestly didn’t have much to lose. It was because my mom told me to “jump in the lake” that I had the realization that I can take my life in my own hands then opened my business that day. In life you’re going to have to take risks otherwise you won’t know how far you’ll be able to go. So next time when you’re faced with something like changing ~ try jumping in the lake. Read more>>

Beth Ames Swartz | Full time fine artist

Risk taking has been a major part of my creative process and my ongoing career. Coming from a scientific family, the idea of having a vision and following it through to it’s conclusion is part of my DNA. Reading Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” (1963) resulted in my becoming an early active eco-feminist. My feminist friend, Arlene Raven, came to Arizona to support my starting a consciousness-raising group here, which in the 1960’s was against the social norms of that period. Writer Suzi Gablik’s controversial, “Has Modernism Failed?” Read more>>

Krizia Inez Romero | Holistic Aesthetician & Spiritual Energy Healer

Risks can be scary, but are also worth it. I feel taking risks in life are necessary. They are necessary for growth in each individual in their own different ways. When we get comfortable in life & where there is no growth developing within oneself, or no positive changes happening we will begin to question, “what more is there”. We begin to yearn for more “enlightenement” within our life, that is where Risks can seem scary. In order to reach that enlightenment there must be a risk you are willing to take within your life. Read more>>