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Following Your Inner Compass
Does the path you’re on no longer feel like yours?
Susie Russell has watched Claire Dunn walk away from certainty more than once — leaving activism, living wild for a year and reshaping her work and family life. What Susie saw as reinvention, Claire experienced as simply following her inner compass.
Caring at the Limit
What happens when devotion outruns your capacity?
Martha Druery has spent 30 years running toward catastrophe, giving everything to families in their darkest moments. When her colleague Carolyn Betts nominated her for Finding Courage, Martha was grappling with a harder challenge — learning to care for herself.
Leading Social Change
Felt called to do something bigger than you think you can carry?
Pip Gordon has watched young Jawoyn man Lazarus Manbulloo drive for hours alone into remote communities, carrying his own grief, to talk to men about the hardest things — suicide, disconnection, despair. Lazarus just knew someone had to go find the men.
Finding Home
Longing to belong - even if it means letting go?
Debbie Martin encouraged her daughter Hannah to leave LA’s sunshine and certainty for a country she barely knew. She sensed Hannah’s need to find somewhere she truly belonged. Hannah had the courage to go looking.
Digging Your Heels In
Being pushed out for standing your ground?
Ann Duffy has been running with her friend Rhonda Millikin for more than 30 years, solving the world's problems on long trails through Vancouver. Over those miles, she heard the story of how Rhonda fought her own government all the way to court to complete research that changed the way we study bird migration.