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The Art Of Risk

Apr 15, 2017

What did want to be when she grew up? A bio-physicist! No, a science teacher! No, I know—an artist. No, wait—company CEO! Susie Lee CEO of Siren, an award winning dating app that subverts the usual paradigm of swipe left vs. right, talks about what it’s like to work hard, achieve your goal, take off in another...


Apr 15, 2017

Because she promised her students she’d never make them doing something she wouldn’t do, Nikkita Oliver performed for the first time at the 2012 Seattle Poetry Slam. And she won. Oliver talks about taking risks as a black, mixed, queer woman, using her background as an attorney to help young, marginalized...


Apr 15, 2017

It definitely can feel like a risk when you’re honest and open but it doesn’t usually result in threats to your personal security. But this is exactly what happened to Amelia Bonow after she frankly, gratefully, and unapologetically posted about her abortion on her Facebook page. Then she gave her famous friend,...


Apr 14, 2017

Spiritual, emotional, professional, financial—how many risks can you take in one lifetime? In seventy-eight years Trudy James has taken all of these and more. As an interfaith chaplain she’s successfully created care team programs for people with AIDS when they were considered untouchables, end-of-life planning...


Apr 10, 2017

Former Italian Special Forces paratrooper and James Beard Award-winning chef Tiberio Simone made the risky decision to move to Seattle for love. The relationship didn’t last, but that risk led him to take another: using fresh ingredients on naked bodies as a new art form. With photographer Matt Freedman, he...