Taking risk is natural for some, but in our experience most successful risk takers gradually developed their ability to leave comfort zones and take risk and we’ve asked them to share their experiences and advice below.

Araceli Vidales

Out of necessity; either I sink or swim and I chose to be Dory and just keep swimming. The biggest risk I have taken was to leave my County job and start my own practice, Cultura Wellness Therapy. It was never something I planned on doing. I never saw myself as my own boss. I am the first one in my family to take the leap. I had to figure it out on my own. It was very scary, but like I say, “choose your scary”. At the time I had two under two, one child started showing signs of Autism, and the shutdown happened.  Read More>>

Ryan Finch

My ability to take risks comes from my confidence in my ability to evaluate risk, decision making skills and being able to accept the outcome. I don’t see failure or a negative outcome as a final result. I see them as learning experiences and chances to improve upon going forward. I work to improve my chances of success as much as i can but also recognize that I can never control 100% of everything leading to an outcome. I also believe that if I don’t take risks and continually move forward personally and in business, I will be stagnant and that is a scarier outcome than taking risks. Read More>>

José Luis Chacin

Firstly, it is centered on a lot of faith in God and his promises, additionally, increasing mental strength through reading different books on leadership and personal growth, which are manifested in a clear resilience in every event of my life every day, with the firm belief that I will always achieve the goals set and overcome the different adversities, finally achieving success in each objective. Read More>>

Sean Yoon

i just did to failed a lot
but i just did to go forward
whether I can do it or not
it was horrible
felt i’m a loser who really am
nevertheless
Reason I can kept moving forward was
because I realized that being fail is nothing Read More>>

Carlton Sturgill

I developed my ability to take risks through a long and ongoing relationship with failure. In my artistic practice, failure has become a constant companion—I’ve experienced everything from individual pieces that didn’t turn out as planned to entire bodies of work that weren’t received the way I’d hoped. Over time, these setbacks have taught me to view failure not as something to avoid, but as a necessary part of the creative process. I’ve learned that some of my best ideas only emerged after a string of unsuccessful ones, and that what initially felt like a mistake could actually reveal an entirely new direction.  Read More>>

Gene Kim

I wasn’t always this way, but I’m a big believer in going out of your comfort zone and choosing to grow.

Part of what makes the choice to push myself and choose to be growth-oriented is the thought of what the reward might be if I was able to accomplish difficult things. When I made my animated short film One Last Monster, I was basically taking on the task of making a whole TV pilot length animated episode with the help of my friend animator Elmer Barcenes and a few other people over the course of almost two years – a task that would take an entire studio to do normally.  Read More>>