This is the season three finale of Choose Courage Inc., and it's a live panel recording from The Walkout. Vivianne sits down with Rachael Dietkus, Behzod Sirjani, and Vincent Brathwaite to move through the questions people were too afraid to ask out loud: about fear and risk, about readiness, about money, about identity, and about the weight of where we come from. This is a conversation that ends the season the way it was meant to: together. In This Episode: •Why fear that's warning you tends to get more specific when you look directly at it, and what to do with that list. •The difference between uncertainty and risk, and why we keep collapsing them into the same feelingWhy "I wasn't ready" is almost always the honest answer, and why that doesn't mean you shouldn't go. •What happens between day 30 and 60 after leaving, and why that emotional unraveling is actually a sign your body finally feels safe. •How to price your work when your entire sense of worth has been shaped by institutions that underpaid you. •The hidden cost of borrowed identity, and what it means when the panic of losing a logo tells you how much of yourself you quietly handed over. •Why grief can do bad math for us, and the only way to find out those years were ever really yours to begin with. •What it looks like to break generational chains, not by rejecting where you came from, but by moving with the same boldness your parents had to survive. You don't build a self from scratch.The company just rented you the storefront and let you forget that you're you. Clarity comes through doing, not waiting.And this journey was never meant to be a solo one. _________ •Follow Vivianne on LinkedIn for more reflections on courage, entrepreneurship, and building a life that actually fits you (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vccastillo). •More on Rachael Dietkus LCSW: Rachael is an internationally recognized leader in trauma-informed design, civic tech ethics, and care-centered public interest technology. As founder of Social Workers Who Design, she works at the intersection of design, social work, and systems change, helping organizations build ethical, sustainable, and trauma-responsive practices that support both people and impact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaeldietkuslcsw). •Vincent Brathwaite is a Caribbean American multi-disciplinary design leader, educator, and speaker. For the past two decades, he has worked to transform communities through disruptive design thinking. Driven by integrity, empathy, kindness, courage, and resilience, his mission is to design experiences that help leaders positively impact the world (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentjbrathwaite). •Behzod Sirjani is a consultant who is regularly sought out to navigate complex challenges, whether that's helping a fast-growing startup drive growth or a large public company restructure their innovation practice. Through Yet Another Studio, Behzod partners with companies ranging from small startups to industry leaders like Figma and Dropbox to build and scale research practices that drive better decision-making and growth. He is also a Program Partner at Reforge, where he built the "User Insights for Product Decisions" and "Effective Customer Conversations" programs and a venture partner at el cap (https://www.linkedin.com/in/behzodsirjani/).
