I struggled at school and tried college twice, I just never enjoyed it. From there we moved into all forms of dance lessons and entertainment, but it started with taking the first risk. Once the quarantined lifted and most of our students left, we transitioned to after school dance. It started out as online dance class on zoom, for kids that were stuck at home. That’s when my wife and I came up with A.C.E Studios. Since I was in the dance and entertainment industry all of my work was put on hold. When quarantine happened in 2020, my job closed down. I also switched over to a job as a medical assistant with a dermatology practice to learn and get the required patient care hours. ![]() So I started re-taking college science classes that had expired (most medical programs want the courses to have been completed within 5 years), and dipping my toe back into the idea of changing career paths. I was working in sales/marketing, and decided I should’ve gone ahead and followed that original dream I’d had of going into medicine. The biggest risk I ever took was at 25 years old. It was then that I realized that I was in a position to make a complete change and focus on my “side hustle.” My rationale being, “If I’m only going to make a fraction, I may as well make 100% of that fraction in my own business rather than supporting someone else’s company.” Read more> Maryellen Bishop I bounced around with a couple of small companies, making a fraction of what I was making. I, along with many of my professional colleagues, found ourselves out of work and desperate to find something stable. It was always a “side hustle.” In 2008, the economy took a severe downturn and hit the new home market particularly hard. While I was “dabbling” in musical endeavors, I never saw it as a primary means of income. Read more> Roger Langdonįor most of my professional life, I had been making a comfortable living in the new home construction industry in Southern California. I ended up getting a second bartending job because if you’ve lived in the Miami area, you know you need a real career or a second job to pay for housing and food. I got a bartending job to support myself while I waited for recording budgets to be finalized, but it never happened. I had traveled to Miami before and recorded some original songs with producers, so I was excited to go back and get to work again. I had just signed with a new label in Nashville and was their first artist. ![]() ![]() I moved to South Florida from Louisville, KY in 2012, to record my first album. We asked some brilliant entrepreneurs, artists, creatives, and leaders to tell us those stories – the stories of the risks they’ve taken, and we’ve shared them with you below. Too often, due to a societal expectation of modesty and humility we are discouraged from talking about the risks we’ve taken that led to those ups and downs – because often those risks draw attention to how we are responsible for the outcomes – positive or negative. Getting a life-threatening medical diagnosis, beating it and getting a clean bill of health. The chapters in our stories are often marked by wins and losses.
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