Love & Hilarity with Melanie Curtis — Professional Skydiver, Author, Coach
Sylvia is joined by professional skydiver, author, and podcast host Melanie Curtis. Melanie has completed over 11,000 jumps and has been a leading figure in the sport of skydiving for more than twenty years.
“It takes you to the extreme edges of fear, where fear would and should absolutely exist, and you get that extreme and intense engagement with facing that and then, whoa, if I can do that, what else can I do? If I can do that?”
— Melanie Curtis
“That mindset of questioning fear and taking action through fear is the entire reason why I am an author, why I am an entrepreneur, it is why I have done a ton of things in my career — because of that access to perceptible bravery. Feeling fear and doing things anyway.” — Melanie Curtis
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Melanie’s first skydiving adventure
- Facing the fear of death
- Love and hilarity being the most important things in life
- Creative self-expression as our greatest contribution
- Busting false assumptions about pursuing the professional skydiver dream
- Normalizing mental health and self-care
- Speaking with heart and integrity, detaching from outcome
- Representation of women in all walks of life
- Reinvention and resiliency after experiencing loss
- Losing and rediscovering love for a life passion
- COVID as a masterclass in detachment
- Bucket List items for a professional skydiver
- And other topics
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