About Bare Naked Bravery: How It All Got Started
Get to Know The Book, The Podcast, The Publication, The Community
How It All Got Started
This adventure started with the research for the book Bare Naked Bravery: How to be Creatively Courageous. Emily Ann Peterson had just gone through a really shitty season of life and knew she would have to be brave to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But she had no idea what bravery *really* meant, so got really curious about it and started writing a book with observations and findings.
The research conversations with her heroes and heroines soon became a podcast. The podcast’s international listener base became a Facebook group. Eventually the whole wonderful thing became the online publication you see today. Hooray!
About the Book
Bare Naked Bravery: How to Be Creatively Courageous is an extremely vulnerable dive into what bravery means, how it looks, and how to build it with a daily practice of expression and mindfulness. People from all walks of life are now empowered to understand what bravery really is — allowing them to step into it by creatively using vulnerability, imagination and improvisation. The book releases January 28th, 2018 on hardback, paperback, audiobook, and ebook formats.
Get on the list for a free copy and book launch announcements here!
About the Founder, Emily Ann Peterson
In 2013, Emily Ann Peterson was diagnosed with a degenerative neurological hand tremor, which forever altered her two-decade livelihood as a cellist/cello teacher. Refusing to lose her life’s love of expression, she knew she’d have to be brave. In an act of neurological defiance, she expanded into wider mediums and broke through her creative glass ceiling, opening the door to limitless possibilities through songwriting.
Emily writes for people who struggle to remember what hope feels like and sings to those who yearn for something secret. She speaks to those who are done being bored and crave all things beautiful, strong, sacred, and sensual. Her goal is to inspire a global resonance and magnanimous community through the marriage of art and whole-person development.
Learn more about Emily and hear her music at www.emilyannpeterson.com.
About the Community
The Bare Naked Bravery Community is filled with courageous creatives who build their bravery on a daily basis. We are writers, musicians, poets, parents, software developers, spouses, coaches, business owners… and we know our bravery is needed in the world.
This is the community to receive support and encouragement to be vulnerable, imaginative, and improvisational throughout the hard knocks of life.
Join the Facebook Group by downloading your FREE Bravery Bundle!
About the Podcast
The Bare Naked Bravery podcast exposes the threads of heroism stitching together the stories we admire most. Each episode holds conversations that unclothe the fears befriended (or banished) along our stories of bravery, quiet heroism, and all-out gutsy-ness. Some episodes will open the (sometimes) Pandora’s box of constraints and dream-crushing realities.
Every week we talk with the authors, musicians, artists, business owners, and other professionals who courageously pour themselves into their work. Every guest will flaunt the obstacles battled and the bravery required for their quiet victories and loud failures. We feature conversations with community members and nominated guests. Nominate a guest of your choice here!
Episodes are currently published on a weekly basis and available on your favorite podcast outlets:
Subscribe via Youtube | Apple Podcasts | Google Play | iHeartRadio | Stitcher
About the Publication
The Bare Naked Bravery publication is the place for courageous creatives to gain an extra dose of bravery to do what they’re called to do. We feature stories of personal bravery and how-to’s around the subjects featured in the book Bare Naked Bravery: How to be Creatively Courageous — creativity, courage, vulnerability, imagination, improvisation, defiant expectation, friction, intuition, fear, constraints, contextual awareness, daily expression, community, honesty, risk, safety, mindfulness, self-care, and so much more.
Our regular contributors and community members are an essential part of our mission to spread bravery as far and wide as possible. We’re honored to consider your application to join us as a regular contributor.
