In our experience, most folks, including ourselves don’t have enough of an understanding of risk and the role it plays in our lives and careers and so we have made a concerted effort as a team to have conversations about risk with our interviewees. We’ve shared some highlights below.

KC Green | Chief Wordsmith and Creative Lead

In 2010, I took the biggest leap of my career. I left a decent, stable, government job to produce a TV pilot I had written called, Boulevard West. I contacted an actor/director friend of mine, the late Tommy Ford, and asked if he wanted to be involved. He immediately said yes! So I took my life savings (at that time about $25,000), raised another $30K from private investors and set about making my dream come true. Read more>>

Anna Swanson | Wedding & Event Planner

As a young married couple, we moved away from our families in the north Atlanta area to forge our own path and live in a city that had a lot of career opportunities for both of our industries on the coast. After a few years in Savannah we were ready to start a family, and I left my full time job to start my own company in hopes of obtaining a better work life balance. Read more>>

Elizabeth Anderson | CEO & Co-Founder at LunarLab

Risk is an interesting concept for me. I wouldn’t necessarily consider myself to be a risk-taker, but I have taken some big risks in my life and career. Probably the biggest one was launching a business (LunarLab) at the height of the pandemic, to create a service in our city that no one else here was really focused on at the time. Read more>>

seny meftah | Artist

Taking risks is essential in life because it allows you to explore new avenues, to question yourself, to renew yourself. It means putting yourself at risk and if you don’t you won’t be able to discover what you’re capable of. Without taking risks we stagnate. Read more>>

Loren Bass | Higher Education Professional & Entrepreneur

I look at risk as opportunities versus challenges. I’m not a very “play it safe” person because I enjoy experimenting and pushing myself to new levels, in both my career and entreprenurship. By viewing calculated risk as opportunities I can be creative with engaging with others, assessment, and creating various solutions to a problem. Read more>>

Ashley Daugherty | REALTOR®, Acting Studio co-founder/owner, & professional Dancer/Actres

I think taking risks is an absolute must in life, especially with a career. If we don’t take risks, we’ll never grow. Without growth, we’ll never change. Without change, comfort & complacency will consume- that’s how you end up stuck, depressed, and unmotivated. Growing up in the military, I was forced to move many times and start fresh. Read more>>

Ty | Actor & Artist

As an actor, risk is my best friend-my partner in crime! Without risk there truly is no reward. Every time I move to a new city with plans and hopes of meeting the right agent, or getting cast in the next big project-that’s me taking a risk. No audition is a guarantee. Read more>>

Richelle Fields | Creative Artist

Expanding a business in an unfamiliar town is very risky but if you believe in your why, you will be willing to take a leap of faith. I’ve always been gifted in the arts field and consider myself to operate on the right hemisphere of my brain. Before I defined my business, crafting was an outlet for me to express myself and enhance my mental health and well-being. Read more>>

Shay Palmer | Streetwear brand owner

I always loved wearing Streetwear but all the brands I loved to wear eventually went out of business. Therefore I wanted to pick up where they left off not only to provide myself with something to wear but to take on the challenge to make some of the hottest clothes you ever seen pack full personality as well as baring truthful fashion statements. Read more>>

Analisa Shepard | Artist

I’ve always been one to throw myself into risky, uncomfortable, and unpredictable situations. I graduated from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga in 2017 with a bachelors of science in civil engineering. I was one of few women in each class I attended and it was obvious I was headed into a male dominated field. Read more>>

Candice Spicer | Tha Vintage Diva

I have always taken risks some rather unnecessary than other but always learned something in the end. I got tired of talking about what I was going to do because I may fail, so If I didn’t try, I could never say that failure was the imminent. Read more>>

Denzel Davon | Musician/Artist

Risks are scary, mainly because you don’t know what the outcome will be of taking a risk. Just moving on faith and hoping the thing you set out to do, has the outcome you want it to have. Risk taking for me has been a fight up until recently. Read more>>

Jenina Ortega | Studio Executive, Actress, Dental Assistant, CEO

When I hear the word “RISK”, it makes me think really hard of whether it’s a good idea or a bad idea for the risk I’ll take. Risks in my opinion can be a great thing for growth altogether if you’re in a position where you’re taking risks to create your business or gaining more experience with the market for your company on a positive level. Read more>>

Deborah Beroset | Creative Muse, Coach, Speaker, Facilitator & Founder, It’s Time For Moxie LLC

None of the best plot twists in my life would have shown up if I hadn’t been willing to take a risk. Like saying yes to a job that would require me to move to Dubai when I was 20 years old, which led to my first staff writing position and getting to see a whole lot of the world. Read more>>

Jerry Skipper | Minister, Author, man of God, Barber Husband, Father, Son, Brother

Taking risk plays a major part in my life, my career, and just who I am. When you have came from a troubled beginning, (getting in trouble with the law), you have a stigma that is viewed as negative, although your trouble with the law was years ago. Now because of this, some people make things extremely hard for you to obtain. Is this right? Read more>>

Jamestina Davies | Beauty Entrepreneur | Lash Technician | Lash Instructor | Lash Supplier

I would rather take the risk and say I did something, then to sit around scared to make the next big move and have regrets. Taking risks has enabled me to expand my business. In 2019 I broke my foot, I lost my 9-5 job, and shortly after I lost my residence. Read more>>