In our experience, most folks, including ourselves don’t have enough of an understanding of risk and the role it plays in our lives and careers and so we have made a concerted effort as a team to have conversations about risk with our interviewees. We’ve shared some highlights below.

Becky

Growing up in a small town, I envisioned a traditional path for myself—becoming a teacher, getting married, and settling down close to home. But looking back, I see that risk-taking has always been a part of me. My mom loves to tell stories about how I’d come home from school announcing that I had signed up for a new sport or joined a different club, always with my mind firmly made up. She eventually got used to me surprising her. Read More>>

Danny Silvertone Silvertone

Being a musician is mostly risk. Especially nowadays -there are so many people attempting to do this. You have to be consistent and make a plan, and sometimes the move that doesn’t always seem like the sure thing is often times the exact decision you should make. High risk usually equals high yield. Read More>>

Brett Prieto

All the questions were very hard to choose from in the line-up. However, the one that stuck out to me most — it had me continually going back to it, so I chose to tackle this one. Risk. I believe my whole life can be summed in that single word; risk. Without going into a whole personal biography from my birth until now, I’ll take this question, and start from the time I finished my baseball career in college. Read More>>

CJ Sargent

I feel that stepping into uncertainty and the unknown has been the biggest factor in my success—both in my music career, businesses, and in life— as-well in the huge success that is coming. A quote I love is, “Fear is always present when doing something worth doing.” From personal experience, I can say that anything of value I have accomplished, or any significant experience I have had, was always on the other side of fear. Read More>>