The capacity to take risk is one of the biggest enablers of reaching your full potential and so we want to create a space where risk-takers can come together to talk about how they’ve developed their capacity for risk taking.
Daniel Tanasa
Like many, I lean towards risk aversion. I prefer to avoid gambling or investing in ventures beyond my control. While the common belief is that business owners thrive on risk, I hold a different perspective. To me, investing in real estate seems less risky than not investing at all. Considering the risk-reward balance, it becomes clear that certain risks are worth taking. Read more>>
Seleny Xie
Embracing risk is inherently daunting, yet it is the crucible through which innovation and growth are forged. Human nature gravitates towards predictability, but I’ve learned the value of venturing beyond comfort zones. This realization has been pivotal in my journey that teaches me to navigate the uncertainties that pave the path to novel discoveries and achievements. Read more>>
Maurice & Kimberly Sanchez
We developed our ability to take risks by not overthinking and not being afraid to fail. A lot of people are afraid to fail, but if you never take the risk, you’ll never know the outcome. Taking a risk is part of growing & if you fail it’s not considered a loss, it’s considered a lesson. Read more>>
Diamond Nurse
Fear as Fuel: How I Learned to Embrace Risk and Build My Social Media Empire They say the best view comes after the hardest climb, and in the world of social media, navigating uncharted territory is part of the ascent. As the owner of DMINE, I’ve never shied away from a challenge. In fact, “perseverance” isn’t just my favorite word, it’s my mantra. But the truth is, I wasn’t born a fearless risk-taker. Read more>>
Ace Who
The way I tell myself to do it, is the same way my brain tells me not to. I have overcame many situations that haunted my confidence. In the moments I need to perform my body leads the way. I’ve had situations where I froze and lost the ability to foresee how it could’ve turned out. And those are my biggest regrets. I promised myself to never not try. If I need my oil changed I’m going to go change my oil. Read more>>
Shereese Lynn-Cromartie
I think my ability to take risk came from my family of entrepreneurs! Entrepreneurial ship is definitely a risk taking industry! Growing up, I saw many of my family members displaying hard work ethics. My dad was a full-time longshoreman by day, and also owned a convenient store. Read more>>
Jimmy Good
Back in 2020, I took a trip out to California from my home state of Minnesota. It was one of my “reconnaissance” voyages to help figure out if pursuing my dream of acting was even feasible. I recall meeting with a few contacts out in L.A. that had offered up some direction, but I still felt pretty unsure. Also, this was in March of 2020 and I was beginning to hear the rumblings of something that was going to change the world. Read more>>
Dr. Karen Molano
Taking risks has been an incredible journey for me, one that’s profoundly shaped who I am today. Looking back, it’s clear how staying in your comfort zone can stifle the discovery of your boundless potential—it’s there, within all of us, just waiting to be unleashed. And once you tap into it, it’s like opening a door to a world of endless possibilities. Read more>>
Jennifer Nguyen
Professionally, I’m typically not a risk taker until 2020. During the mist of the pandemic, like many I lost my job and my husband went from working a full-time job to only working 1-2 days depending on business needs. Financially, we were starting to struggle and I saw a rise in small businesses on Instagram for baked goods, customized crafts and so much more for pick-up. Read more>>
Jaymie Potesta
I developed my ability to take risks after learning about, “The Law of Attraction”. The Law of Attraction teaches that you get what you think about.
After much research and applying the techniques, such as daily affirmations, gratitude, and visualization, I started to notice a major shift happening in my life. A new sense of peace in myself and my world around me filled my heart with a knowing that can only be described as joyous understanding. Read more>>
Amanda Bell
I love risk! I have a tattoo on my arm that says “this or something better” as a way of expressing nonattachment. And maintaining my capacity for risk is the toughest thing that I do most days. Without knowing it until recently, I’ve been working on building my capacity for risk for years, maybe my whole life. I have moved to London, Chicago, and Fresno by myself in my late teens & 20s. Read more>>
Maxime Barbier
By taking risks. Life is a game with a known end. And nobody said it would be easy or fair. So taking risks is essential, and every day that goes by, tell yourself that your success rate for staying alive is 100%. Read more>>
Alan Barinholtz
When you realize that with risk can come great rewards, it helps. Before law school I worked for two years as a salesperson. When I started I was given the option of working at a flat salary or commission. I chose the latter, and never looked back earning more than double what the salary would have been. Once I started practicing law, I worked on a contingency so that if I didn’t produce, my earnings would be diminished. Realizing the reward potential versus the risk made it a no brainer for me. Read more>>
Linda Howard
I believe that my ability to take risk began at a very young age and has been nurtured and developed over the years by family members and others who were in mentoring or leadership positions in my life. I was an only child and had an extremely inquisitive mind, and I was allowed to disassemble things and attempt to re-assemble them – even at the risk of not getting it right. Read more>>
Jeremy Glover
I developed an ability to take risks by trial and error. You pretty much have to practice taking risks. And if financial system we practice to take calculated risk. Calculated risk defined by Webster dictionary is your risk that is estimated. Read more>>
Paula Navarro
Practicing… No matter how many risks I’ve taken in the past, the ability and braveness to take them gets weakened every time I get to a new comfort zone. So every time I reach a comfort zone and a new idea is born in me, the fears and doubts arise and I need to remind myself that I’ve been fine in the past no matter the outcome and that I will be fine again, failure is inevitable but that’s what teaches the lessons, easier said than done of course. Read more>>
Brittany Conner
From a really young age I marched to the beat of my own drum. I always believed in myself and knew I could do anything I put my mind to. When I was younger, I was very active in sports and throughout all my personal training the statement, “High risk, High Reward” was embedded into my brain. I carried those words with me throughout my adulthood. I remember several times throughout my adult life where I would tell my parents a plan I had about how I could make an investment in my future. Read more>>
Armando Millan
My ability to take risk comes from my mom and dad, since I was a child, both of them encourage me to make decisions by myself and to try different things, music instruments, sports, art. Either way if I was or wasn’t “good” at it or if I did or didn’t “like it”, the point was to try something new, develop my decision making, get out of my comfort zone, take a risk and don’t be afraid of a new adventure. Read more>>
Chelsyea Berry
My whole life I’ve been surrounded by the hardest working people. People who have come from nothing, but had the craving for more and the drive to set out and get it.I I’ve been lucky enough to have a pretty big family but today I want to talk about my two dads (dad J, dad A), that each taught me so many different things in life. Read more>>
Laila Matuk
I’ve been lucky enough to have been challenged. When I was thirteen years old, I faced what at the time seemed like the most crucial decision of my life: Should I join the Theater Club of my school and act hand-in-hand with people above my grade, from freshman to seniors, and expose my vulnerabilities on the stage in front of hundreds of people that knew not even my name, or stay safe by blending into the crowd and survive my high school years without ever making a fool of myself? Read more>>
Wavess Da Artist
The biggest risk is not taking risks! Life is a gamble you just have to play your cards right. You win some , you loose some; but you live, you live to fight another day (Pops from Friday) I want to say in life “I remember when I did that” instead of saying “oh man! Read more>>
Darcie Friesen Hossack
When I say I take risks, I mean this almost entirely in the creative sense. I’m afraid of heights, which mean, although I live in the Northern Rockies, I don’t climb mountains, drop out of helicopters to ski down crevasses, or own a single pair of ice axes. And owing to the tragic deaths of my high school principal and his wife, from my very tiny religious school, I’m also afraid of oncoming traffic, especially semi trucks that cross centre lines. Read more>>
Jaé Anaé
Haha, so here’s the thing… I have always been curious enough to try anything I set my mind to, however, I believe the moment I stopped viewing failures as losses is the moment I expanded my ability to take greater risks to maximize my successes. I was very young when I stopped fearing failure and started using it as a tool to chisel and mold me. Read more>>
Nawa Alviar Horton, known as Moonyeka
One of the biggest values that I carry with me is the Filipinx cultural psychologies of kapwa. It would be a whole article in itself to explain the depth of this concept so I do encourage readers to do their own research. Though, I can describe to you the way I relate to it. First imagine an inner spool of silk in the place in your body that brings you the most feeling. Read more>>
