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  • Category: Badass Analogies

    Bringing impossible topics to a place they can easily be understood. Using storytelling, in analogy form, to make the deeper impact understandable and helping transform the world of advocacy, allies, and survivors.

  • Driving Blind in Catastrophe and Still Being Able to See

    Posted by BilliJoy on August 27, 2019

    In 2003, at Hickory Motor Speedway in North Carolina, the newest up-and-coming NASCAR drivers (the rookies) were scrambling for the attention of the racing giants. Joe Gibbs’ racing team was looking for talent. Curtis “Bubba” …

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  • Disaster Doesn’t Have to Mean Defeat

    Posted by BilliJoy on August 19, 2019August 19, 2019

    The equation to refuse defeat is simple: HOPE. ERNEST SHACKLETON I first heard about Sir Ernest Shackleton when I read Nancy Koehn’s book Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times. In …

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  • Choose How You Will Be Remembered in a Shark Attack

    Posted by BilliJoy on August 14, 2019

    In July 2000, the sky over the coastal city of East London, South Africa was bright and cloudless; the air roared with the sounds of seagulls and laughter—a beautiful day for a surfing competition. Fifteen-year-old …

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  • Wild Blackberry Bushes of Trauma

    Posted by BilliJoy on November 15, 2018May 24, 2019

    I was born in Oregon. But I have very little memory of it. When I was four, the desert became my home. The land that has prickly pears and citrus. We aren’t known for fresh …

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