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For twenty years, Kelly Schuknecht was the woman behind the vision.

Two CEOs. Two decades. She made everything happen — the platforms, the books, the speaking events, the brand.

She was exceptional at it. And she was invisible doing it.

Then, a company acquisition decided she wasn't needed anymore. The layoff hit her harder than she expected. Not just professionally. Deep down, in the place where we keep the questions we're afraid to ask out loud.

Why didn't they think I was enough to keep?

The morning after, Kelly made a decision. She wasn't going to go looking for one more person to be the person behind. She opened a spreadsheet, typed three words at the top — Can We Do This? — and started building something of her own.

This episode is about what courage looks like when the wound is still fresh, and the story isn't finished yet.

It's about the dream you've been writing down but haven't let yourself say out loud.

And it's about the question Kelly's husband asked her on a hard day that changed the way she thought about fear.

You're going to want to hear it.

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Connect with Kelly

• Personal Website: https://kellyschuknecht.com/
• Business Website (QUIZ is here:) https://twomilehighmarketing.com/

Kelly's Book

https://authorityxfactor.com/

Social Media

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyschuknecht
• TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@kellyschuknecht
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/KellySchuknecht
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/kellyschuknecht

Hosted by Bernice McDonald — Courage Architect, speaker, and author.

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She called herself a cliché. A woman in her mid-40s who needed to find herself.

But there is nothing clichéd about what Saoirse Temple actually did.

She left a relationship that had been slowly shrinking her — not with drama, but with years of quiet courage, one small step at a time. She packed one box. She asked the hard question. She walked through a door she had chosen for herself for the very first time at 48 years old.

And then she kept going.

Today Saoirse is a writer with nine published books and a definition of success that has nothing to do with sales.

This is a story about what it looks like to stop letting fear rescue you from your own possibilities.

Connect with Saorise Temple:

Website - https://www.saoirsetemple.com/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/saoirsetempleauthor

Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/saoirsetemple (in case anyone wants to buy me a coffee to support my creative projects.)

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/saoirse-temple-64755735a/

Intagram - https://www.instagram.com/saoirsealt/

Substack - https://saltemple.substack.com/ (people can subscribe to my free newsletter: A Dash of S.A.L.T.)

Hosted by Bernice McDonald — Courage Architect, speaker, and author.

Need to find YOUR Next Step through a hard thing you're facing? Have a simple conversation with the Tiny Brave Steps Generator AI: www.tinybravesteps.com.

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Kristin was 33 years old when a routine doctor's appointment changed everything.

The diagnosis: colon cancer.

The prognosis: unknown.

She drove home alone, in the rain, through Orlando traffic, trying to figure out how to say the word out loud to the people she loved.

What happened in the two to three days that followed is not what you'd expect.

This is a story about choosing peace before you have the answers. About discovering that the woman you thought you'd be in a crisis — the one who'd fall completely apart — isn't the woman who shows up. About faith that arrives quietly, in small signs, before the storm ever breaks.

Kristin walked through 28 sessions of radiation, a 12-hour surgery, a near year with an ileostomy bag, and more than a dozen additional procedures.

She kept a blog. She shuffled down her sidewalk with a walker. She held onto a picture of feeling like a million bucks, a year from then.

And she made it.

Not just through cancer — but into a woman who, a decade later, faced job loss with that same settled knowing: I've been here before. I'll be okay.

Kristin's courage story is for anyone who is in the middle of the unsurvivable thing. The peace she found is available to you, too.

Hosted by Bernice McDonald — Courage Architect, speaker, and author.

Need to find YOUR Next Step through a hard thing you're facing? Have a simple conversation with the Tiny Brave Steps Generator AI: www.tinybravesteps.com.

Connect with Bernice:

Email: bernice@bernicemcdonald.com
Website: www.tinybravesteps.com

Join me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernicemcdonald/

If this episode moved something in you — leave a review, share it with a woman who needs it.

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