Courage does not mean the absence of fear, it means you have to feel the fear and go for it anyway,” - Carey Lohrenz

Those of us who grow up in a system thinking, ‘All I have do is perform, and my performance will speak for itself’ can actually be left behind,

“Midwestern stoicism … that ability to just do the work with no fanfare” may be uniquely Wisconsin

People think that fighter pilots aren’t afraid of anything, and yet that’s not true,” she says. “It’s that we’ve learned and developed the ability to work through fear, and flip it, and make it actionable, so that it works for us, and not against us.”