Brave Your Fear

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Shana Renee is a 5-ft tall sports fanatic whose passion was triggered in her sports-loving family. She says she was lucky to have grown up in the 90s - “the best time for sports” - and has cultivated this love alongside a commitment to create way more room in the industry for the telling of important stories of Black athletes. She is a producer of content - writing, podcasting, and video. She is an expert on the intersection of sports and culture. Shana Rene is a major league badass.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/27shana

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Kerstin Anderson has always loved to sing. She always felt like an artist, but grew up in a family packed with parents who were into sports and science. Following her passion and using her voice, she came to NYC for college and after only 2 years, booked her dream job as lead role of Maria in the National Tour of The Sound of Music. Now, at 24 years old, she is on Broadway in My Fair Lady. She uses her voice to tell stories and her passion to fuel her resilience in a business filled with NOs. Kerstin is star twinkling, sparkling, streaking through the sky.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/26kerstin

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Jennifer Francis is the Vice Provost for Relay Graduate School of Education. She grew up in Chicago, attended boarding school in Vermont, Scripps college in California, and a life-changing semester at Spellman College in Atlanta, GA. With a graduate degree from USC, Dr. Francis talks to us on the eve of her second wedding. And when she talks, she doesn’t stay on the surface of anything. She is deep, she is proud, she has big reasons for interrupting, and bigger visions to disrupt in a way that fuels necessary, hard, important and uncomfortable conversations.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/25jennifer

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Jacquette Timmons is a financial behaviorist, which means she focuses on the human side of money. With a career start in fashion, it took the stock market crash of ’87 to spark her passion for finance. She has lived a life packed with the twists of small business ownership and the turns of grief from the loss of the two most important people in her life. She is not just still standing, she is glowing with joy. She is omnipresent and made of the same things that make the sun so bright and warm and vital.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/24jacquette

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Arkeema Chandler is an 18-year-old powerhouse who has many stories to tell. She lost her father when she was 7 years old to AIDS and her mother at the age of 12 to sickle-sell related lung disease. With an incredible extended family, and the help of amazing teachers and school leaders, she fought her way out of grief and found a way to express her anger.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/23arkeema

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Jera Foster-Fell was born and raised in New York City, went to school in LA, worked as a graphic artist, then, to help her get over a break-up, started a fitness regimen that led her all the way to the Soul Cycle instructor podium. In less than 4 years, she has amassed nearly 200,000 instagram followers by sharing her life, which has most recently been in flux. Her followers love her because she is raw, open and as willing to be as unedited as she is capable of being sexy. She is changing. She is refreshing. She is on a mission to connect.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/22jera

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Dr. Karen Sutton was once a fierce defender from Duke University and now she is among the 3-6% of female Orthopedic Surgeons in this country. She is pint-sized. She is a mother of four. She is fueled by intensity. And she is so competitive, she might just call a timeout and rip you a new one if you’re not IN it to win it. Dr. Karen Sutton is a strong woman who knows her strengths, is constantly looking for ways to increases her competencies and step out of her comfort zone. She is a persistent persister who persists.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/21karen

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Jess Ekstrom is a social entrepreneur who started Headbands of Hope, a non-profit organization that gives a free headband away to a kid with cancer for every one that is sold. Headbands of Hope has donated headbands to every single children’s hospital in the united states. Jess was born a businesswoman – she sold her American girl dolls when she was done playing with them and swapped her clothes online to rotate her closet without spending any additional money. She is funny. She is open. She is a problem solver. And she is a proud, hardworking, outspoken and, I might add, incredible - millennial.

Show Notes:

https://www.morebrave.com/20jess

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Ask Me Anything is a raw mini-episode of the Brave Your Fear podcast where host Crista Samaras answers fan-and-friend questions about anything and everything. It's funny, authentic, deep, shallow and totally unscripted. Questions are submitted via FB and IG and asked by Nick Coleman, producer of the podcast. Crista has no idea what questions are coming when.

Ask Me Anything is a raw mini-episode of the Brave Your Fear podcast where host Crista Samaras answers fan-and-friend questions about anything and everything. It's funny, authentic, deep, shallow and totally unscripted. Questions are submitted via FB and IG and asked by Nick Coleman, producer of the podcast. Crista has no idea what questions are coming when.