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Tiny Brave Steps: Real Women. Real Fear. Real Courage Stories.

Tiny Brave Steps: Real Women. Real Fear. Real Courage Stories.

著者: Bernice McDonald
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She was told by her own team that if she got into trouble, they wouldn’t come to save her. She showed up anyway—every single day for fourteen years. She walked into literal fires while fighting one inside her own chest. And one day, she decided surviving wasn’t enough anymore.


That’s one story. There are so many more.


Tiny Brave Steps is where real women tell the truth about the hardest things they’ve ever walked through—and how they found their way to the other side.


Not with some dramatic, made-for-TV moment. But with what I call Tiny Brave Steps - the kind of courage that happens one terrified, trembling choice at a time.


These are women who’ve faced the fire.


A surgery that stole everything and gave her more than she ever imagined.

A caregiving journey with no finish line.

A fourteen-year silence finally broken.


These aren’t superhero stories. They’re your-neighbor, your-sister, your-friend stories. The kind where you listen and think, That could be me.


I’m Bernice McDonald, Creator of the Tiny Brave Steps method and author of The Little Books of Courage.


Each episode, I walk you through one woman’s journey using the Courage Map - a path from feeling “not enough” to becoming “brave enough.”


You’ll hear her real voice. Her real fear. And the real moment she decided to take that next step - even though her hands were shaking.


Because here’s the truth I want you to know: Courage is never the absence of fear. It’s the judgment that something matters more than the fear.


If you’ve ever whispered I’m not brave enough for this—this podcast was made for you.


New episodes weekly. Bring your heart. Leave with courage.





© 2026 Tiny Brave Steps: Real Women. Real Fear. Real Courage Stories.
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  • Mary Beth's Story: The Year The Unthinkable Struck Twice
    2026/05/15

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    In January 2019, Mary Beth went in for a routine appointment and came out with a cancer diagnosis. Ten days after her own surgery, her husband received a diagnosis with a five percent survival rate.

    What followed was a year that asked everything of her — and she showed up for all of it.

    This is a story about what you do when the weight is too heavy to carry alone. About the song you put on repeat. About the meltdown in the hotel hallway that let you walk back into the room.

    About the strange courage it takes not to hold on, but to let go.

    Mary Beth Plank Mezo is a coach who helps women move from feeling like life is happening to them to knowing they can respond to whatever life brings. This story is where that conviction was forged.

    If you are the one holding everything together right now, this episode was made for you.


    Connect with Mary Beth:

    https://www.lifeleadershipessentials.com/

    https://www.linkedin.com/feed/

    https://www.facebook.com/marybethLLE


    Find your next Tiny Brave Step: www.tinybravesteps.com

    Hosted by Bernice McDonald — Courage Architect, speaker, and author.

    Need to find YOUR Next Step through a hard thing you're facing? Have a simple conversation with the Tiny Brave Steps Generator AI: www.tinybravesteps.com.

    Connect with Bernice:

    Email: bernice@bernicemcdonald.com
    Website: www.tinybravesteps.com

    Join me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernicemcdonald/

    If this episode moved something in you — leave a review, share it with a woman who needs it.

    Do YOU have a Courage Story you'd like to share? Send Bernice a message.

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    28 分
  • Kelly's Story: She Stopped Building Everyone Else's Dream
    2026/05/02

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    For twenty years, Kelly Schuknecht was the woman behind the vision.

    Two CEOs. Two decades. She made everything happen — the platforms, the books, the speaking events, the brand.

    She was exceptional at it. And she was invisible doing it.

    Then, a company acquisition decided she wasn't needed anymore. The layoff hit her harder than she expected. Not just professionally. Deep down, in the place where we keep the questions we're afraid to ask out loud.

    Why didn't they think I was enough to keep?

    The morning after, Kelly made a decision. She wasn't going to go looking for one more person to be the person behind. She opened a spreadsheet, typed three words at the top — Can We Do This? — and started building something of her own.

    This episode is about what courage looks like when the wound is still fresh, and the story isn't finished yet.

    It's about the dream you've been writing down but haven't let yourself say out loud.

    And it's about the question Kelly's husband asked her on a hard day that changed the way she thought about fear.

    You're going to want to hear it.

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    Connect with Kelly

    • Personal Website: https://kellyschuknecht.com/
    • Business Website (QUIZ is here:) https://twomilehighmarketing.com/

    Kelly's Book

    https://authorityxfactor.com/

    Social Media

    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyschuknecht
    • TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@kellyschuknecht
    • Instagram: https://instagram.com/KellySchuknecht
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/kellyschuknecht

    Hosted by Bernice McDonald — Courage Architect, speaker, and author.

    Need to find YOUR Next Step through a hard thing you're facing? Have a simple conversation with the Tiny Brave Steps Generator AI: www.tinybravesteps.com.

    Connect with Bernice:

    Email: bernice@bernicemcdonald.com
    Website: www.tinybravesteps.com

    Join me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernicemcdonald/

    If this episode moved something in you — leave a review, share it with a woman who needs it.

    Do YOU have a Courage Story you'd like to share? Send Bernice a message.

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    18 分
  • Saoirse's Story: Soul Crushed or Soul Soaring
    2026/04/24

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    She called herself a cliché. A woman in her mid-40s who needed to find herself.

    But there is nothing clichéd about what Saoirse Temple actually did.

    She left a relationship that had been slowly shrinking her — not with drama, but with years of quiet courage, one small step at a time. She packed one box. She asked the hard question. She walked through a door she had chosen for herself for the very first time at 48 years old.

    And then she kept going.

    Today Saoirse is a writer with nine published books and a definition of success that has nothing to do with sales.

    This is a story about what it looks like to stop letting fear rescue you from your own possibilities.


    Connect with Saorise Temple:

    Website - https://www.saoirsetemple.com/

    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/saoirsetempleauthor

    Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/saoirsetemple (in case anyone wants to buy me a coffee to support my creative projects.)

    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/saoirse-temple-64755735a/

    Intagram - https://www.instagram.com/saoirsealt/

    Substack - https://saltemple.substack.com/ (people can subscribe to my free newsletter: A Dash of S.A.L.T.)

    Hosted by Bernice McDonald — Courage Architect, speaker, and author.

    Need to find YOUR Next Step through a hard thing you're facing? Have a simple conversation with the Tiny Brave Steps Generator AI: www.tinybravesteps.com.

    Connect with Bernice:

    Email: bernice@bernicemcdonald.com
    Website: www.tinybravesteps.com

    Join me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernicemcdonald/

    If this episode moved something in you — leave a review, share it with a woman who needs it.

    Do YOU have a Courage Story you'd like to share? Send Bernice a message.

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    22 分
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