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Embracing Risk and Building Business Success

Name: Embracing Risk and Building Business Success
Uploaded: 2024-06-03T04:00:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 46 s
Channel: Tina Corner Stolz
Description: In this segment, the speaker describes using Via Ferrata climbing courses as a concrete method to help individuals confront fear directly. By keeping…

3 Jun 2024 · 2 min

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In this segment, the speaker describes using Via Ferrata climbing courses as a concrete method to help individuals confront fear directly. By keeping participants safely clipped in, the experience encourages them to step out of their comfort zones, take calculated risks, and discover personal capabilities. The speaker argues that such adventure experiences translate directly to business contexts, fostering growth through risk‑taking and transformation. She identifies herself as an "adventurepreneur," positioning adventure culture not merely as a metaphor but as an operational tool to galvanize teams, build cohesion, and drive entrepreneurial mindsets within organizations, a practice she now offers to multiple clients.

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and we're doing a Via Ferrata, which is a climbing course where you're hanging off the side of a cliff. Uh, and yeah, and so it's safe, you're clipped in, you're not gonna die. But what's the conversation that's going on in your head? This is very much around getting people to face their fears head on and coach them through the process so they actually find out what they're truly capable of achieving in life. And I find that these types of experiences are directly transferable to business because it's about getting out of your comfort zone. It's about taking a risk that is not an uncalculated risk, but it's a risk nevertheless that you learn from and you have this incredible transformation in growth. And I've experienced it throughout my entire life. And as I now do more and more adventurous retreats, what I'm finding is that there's this wonderful connection between adventure and entrepreneurialism, which is why I call myself an adventurepreneur. Is bringing culture the culture of adventure into organizations. And that's what I'm now doing with several of my clients. And so we're using adventure not only as a metaphor but as an actual way of galvanizing teams, bringing people together. And you just can't do that sitting around a boardroom table.