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.

Julie Seal Gaustad

I think my ability to take risks developed out of necessity at first, and later it became something I embraced with confidence. Back when I was teaching, I’d get laid off every summer because of budget cuts and had to reapply and reinterview for my job each year. It was exhausting and uncertain, and I realized I didn’t want to live like that anymore. One morning, over breakfast with my best friend, we decided to pack up and move to Las Vegas, where they were in desperate need of teachers. It wasn’t planned—it was a spur-of-the-moment decision—but we just went for it. Read More>>

Alesandra Álvarez

I think the ability to take risks wasn’t something I developed intentionally—it was more like something I stumbled into out of necessity. What I’ve realized over time is that the key for me is making the decision before the doubt has time to show up. If I wait too long, fear creeps in and starts asking all the wrong questions. But if I move when the impulse is still alive—when the voice inside me is clear—then I’m already in motion, and there’s no turning back. Read More>>

Victor Grecu

A person’s ability to make decisions and take risks in any field is the result of accumulating experience and information in the field of the business you own.Then you’re more flexible with having different of accumulated knowledge ,makes it easier to make the right decision for minimal risk. Read More>>

Pylot Studios

We didn’t know we were learning to take risks when we started Pylot Studios. We just knew we didn’t see ourselves — or the kind of work we believed in — represented in the spaces around us.

Pylot began in 2019, not long after we graduated from Sarah Lawrence. At the time, we were both feeling the pressure of needing to “succeed” quickly in a creative landscape that often rewards polish over process. But we weren’t interested in fitting into that mold. We wanted to build something that reflected how we and our peers were really working — collaboratively, across disciplines, often with limited resources but expansive ideas. Read More>>

Danya Izarraraz

I always say candids over perfection! Taking risks in wedding photography for me is knowing not everything is always under my control and posing, this keeps me on my feet and allows me to be in the moment capturing every little detail and real emotion throughout the day, breaking out traditional book photography to capture emotion is something I highly value, capturing these emotions and having my couples re live their wedding day through their gallery is my main goal! Trusting my eye, practicing relentlessly, and realizing that emotion beats perfection every time. Once I saw how much more real my photos felt when I took risks, it stopped being scary it became necessary! Read More>>

Elissa Heyman

How did I develop my ability to take risks.

One consistent action I take first, before I take a risk as a professional psychic, is to perform a specific preparation before each psychic counseling session.

During it, I set intentions that as a screen on the information I get: it needs to be relevant, actionable, etc. Then, I open myself up to receiving whatever is healing and helpful to my client. Read More>>