Massage Therapy Journal Summer 2026

Summer 2026 • 77

something you care about. That’s not a red light — that’s a green light with butterflies. So if you’re waiting to feel ready, you’ll wait a long time. What you’re actually looking for isn’t the absence of fear. It’s the decision to move toward something important in spite of it. And as you said, brave doesn’t have to be big. It can be one conversation you’ve been postponing. One decision you’ve been circling. One small thing you do differently today. That’s it. That’s the brave choice. You don’t choose your ending in one dramatic moment. You choose it in five quiet ones. Q What is one thing you’re hoping attendees will take away from your closing keynote? A That default is not destiny. Most of us don’t choose our endings—we just

drift toward them. We keep doing what we’ve always done because change is uncomfortable and the familiar feels safer, even when it’s not working. What I want every person in that room to leave with is this: you have more power than you think. Not over everything—not over the disruptions, the surprises, the endings that come at you without warning. But over how you respond. Over what you choose to end. Over the next brave choice. And I want them to know they don’t have to do it alone. Community is one of the five choices that masters of Radical Adaptability make—and that’s not incidental. The ending is shaped by the moments. The moments are shaped by the choices. And the choices are easier when you’re not making them by yourself. If someone walks out of that room and makes one intentional choice they wouldn’t have made otherwise—one thing they’re willing to end, one new beginning they’re willing to step into—that’s the whole talk right there.

What I want every person in that room to leave with is this: you have more power than you think.

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