Taking Risks: how your perspectives affect your life & career

Omer Ben-David

I am a strong believer that taking risks is the only way to evolve and that a comfort zone is a highway to decay. Read More>>

Ashley Karp

Risk is what creates the necessary change. For me, if I stayed where I was and not pursued anything that drove my soul into what fully created who I am today, I honestly don’t want to know where I would be. I know I wouldn’t be my happiest self, working somewhere that didn’t fuel the fire to my passions. Read More>>

Lisa Niver

I don’t think of risk as something dramatic or impulsive. For me, risk has always been about choosing growth over comfort — even when the outcome isn’t guaranteed. Some of the biggest “risks” in my life included dropping out of medical school. Leaving a stable teaching job to work on cruise ships. Saying yes to travel when I didn’t know where it would lead. Read More>>

Cecil Gentry

MY career is rooted in a willingness to take meaningful risks in service of growth, craft, and storytelling. Without formal training in film production design, I made the bold decision to change careers (from Advertising-Network Buyer to Production Design) and teach myself the discipline from the ground up. Read More>>

Artem Semenov

I think that when you work in the creative industry and are truly determined to succeed, you often have to make very high-stakes decisions in your life. Psychologically, taking risks can be extremely challenging, because you may spend long periods living in uncertainty. Read More>>

Victoria Nichole

I think about risk very differently than I used to. Earlier in my life, I was taught that risk meant pushing harder, moving faster, and tolerating a lot of discomfort in the name of success. But over time, I realized that staying in situations that looked ‘safe’ on paper, but felt draining or misaligned in my body- was actually the bigger risk. Read More>>

David Mukka

I’ve learned to think of risk as part of the job. Experiencing early success as a teenager taught me to stop chasing validation or commercial outcomes and focus instead on the process of creating. Once I did, things started to open up. I’ve always believed in believing first and seeing later. Read More>>

Elizabeth Aurora Petersen

I’ve never been a “play it safe” type—mostly because safety, as it was defined in my childhood, never felt safe to me. I grew up in an ultra-religious sect in San Diego, in a world where every question had a pre-approved answer and every dream was supposed to fit into a very narrow box.  Read More>>