“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Mastering communication is one of the most important building blocks for reaching your full potential. We are fortunate to have many brilliant communicators in our community and we asked some of them to share their lessons and advice below.
Abbe Ciulla
I developed my ability to communicate effectively by learning how to meet people where they are, rather than expecting them to meet me where I am. My background is in yoga education, but the real learning came through years of teaching, leading communities, and navigating real relationships– with students, teachers, staff, and collaborators. Early on, I realized that being articulate or well-intended wasn’t enough. Read More>>
Samantha Jones
I have always been a chameleon. I was born in the city and raised in the suburbs. I grew up within an hour from the beach, farms, mountains, and quaint towns. I am mixed race and first-generation American. My family is diverse as much as the foods I grew up eating. Growing up this way impacted how I see others and connect to them. Read More>>
Vanessa Pascale
I think I am inately a good communicator, which is why I graviated towards writing. I am comfortable expressing myself and being a voice for others. I believe the key to communicating effectively is knowing yourself and being confident in yourself. Read More>>
Tierra Lyle
I don’t know if I necessarily ‘developed’ the ability to communicate effectively; I think I was just pushed into having to know how to communicate effectively, quickly from experience. Read More>>
Patti Steel
I didn’t wake up one day fearless. I learned risk by necessity and by curiosity. Music taught me early on that growth lives just beyond comfort. Every time I picked up a new instrument, stepped onto a stage in a new town, or shared a song before I was sure it was “ready,” I was taking a small risk. Over time, those moments stacked up. Read More>>
Amanda Harris
I’ve learned that taking risks doesn’t always mean doing something wild. For me, it means stepping into something most people misunderstand which can then create fear and doubt and therefore seem like a risk. I know a lot of people thought I was taking a huge risk quitting my corporate job and building a business through network marketing. Read More>>
Shad Olenslager
I didn’t develop my ability to take risks overnight—it was built through experience, setbacks, and a decision to stop playing it safe with my own potential. For a long time, comfort felt like security, but comfort also kept me stuck. I reached a point where I realized that avoiding risk was actually the biggest risk of all. Read More>>
Roy Palmer
I believe that risk and reward go hand in hand. I am a strong advocate of the growth mindset, which promotes the idea that your intelligence and abilities are not fixed, and can be developed over time. This mindset empowers you to embrace challenges and see failures as lessons. Read More>>
Kaprice Dearing
My name is Kaprice Dearing. My boyfriend Randy Clements and I are co-owners of Crazy Town cooking. Randy and I got together about a year and a half ago. When we met we were both working at Denny’s. He was a cook and I was a server. We had both recently gotten out of complicated relationships. Read More>>
Zoë Snow
I didn’t grow up thinking of myself as a risk-taker, but life kept placing me in situations where staying comfortable cost more than taking a leap. My ability to take risks came from a series of moments where I had to choose between the life I knew and the life I felt called to build. Read More>>
Eric Dover
Strangely enough it came from a combination of naiveté youth and stupidity. I was the child in the family that touched the hot stove. It’s a miracle I’m still here to be honest. Of course now I’m a bit more calculated when it comes to taking risks but in my younger days I was determined to learn by experience,good or bad. Read More>>
Jaclyn VanSloten
Risk is something I think about often, partly because so many of the activities I love involve inherent uncertainty. Climbing, surfing, skiing, entrepreneurship, and traveling off the beaten path all require a certain comfort with the unknown. Being around people who take even bigger risks has also helped me understand that risk sits on a spectrum. Read More>>
Taylor Hoye
My ability to take risks didn’t come from confidence or fearlessness. It came from an early understanding that staying where I was felt more dangerous than leaving. Movement became my form of safety long before it became a strategy. Even as a kid, I always knew I wanted more from life. I wanted freedom, travel, joy, and abundance. Read More>>
