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Build a business that pays well, feels good, and protects your peace without betraying yourself (or following a capitalism bro's blueprint).

We help creatives, entrepreneurs, and aspiring corporate escape artists break free from the systems that were never built for them and create businesses where people, creativity, and courage come first.

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    Choose Courage Inc. helped me overcome blockers in restarting my freelance business, shifting my mindset, and quietly building my confidence.
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    If there's a quiet whisper in you, something wondering what else might be possible, this space can help you hear it more clearly.
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    Viv shares not only the nuts and bolts of running businesses, but coaches you on the mindset needed to set out on your own.
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    I'm not sure that there's been a better investment of my time, energy, and money in the last 4 years.
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Where are you right now?

Wherever you are, there's a next step.

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    I'm still inside the machine (and want out)😭

    Feeling trapped in corporate, restless, and are quietly planning a way out that doesn't blow up your life.

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    I just left / I'm building my idea

    Out on your own in the early years or wanting to build your business without a capitalism bro's blueprint.

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    I have a business (but something's off)

    The business works on paper but still costs you something it shouldn't ... and you're ready to do something about it.

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Start with our newsletter, Courage Over Comfort. Every week, one honest question about building work that doesn't cost you yourself. No hustle, no hype, no five-step formulas. Just the questions worth sitting with, and the company of people asking them too.

If you're tired and done pretending the old way was fine ... this is for you.

You don't need another guru telling you to grind harder or manifest your way to freedom. You need a way through that respects your intelligence, your nervous system, and your actual numbers.

Our Approrach to Business is Grounded In

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Hi, I'm Vivianne👋🏾

I built and scaled a design and culture consultancy that Fast Company named one of the most innovative companies of its year, working with teams like Capital One, Google, and Patagonia. I have a graduate degree in counseling, which is why everything here is trauma-informed rather than hustle-informed.

I've made the leap you're considering, the messy version and the sustainable one. The work here is everything I wish someone had handed me on the way out.

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Ep 68 | 5 Phrases to Ground You

Vivianne keeps a short list of phrases she returns to, not affirmations, more like operating instructions for the moments she's scared, deciding something big, or losing track of her why. In this episode, she walks through five of them and the real work underneath each one: noticing that the language we repeat to ourselves quietly becomes the pace we work at.

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    The Language You Repeat Becomes the Pace You Work At

    This post pulls from Episode 68 of the Choose Courage Inc. podcast, where I walk through five phrases I keep close, not affirmations, more like operating instructions for the moments when I'm about to make a decision I can't take...

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    Rest Was Never Supposed to Be Something You Grind Toward

    In this solo episode, Vivianne talks through Rest and Resist Week, the decision to close HmntyCntrd, what pulled her back to the States for the first time since moving to Mexico, and why she believes entrepreneurship can be a healing...

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    The Slow Build: Staying Grounded on the Way In

    This post pulls from a conversation with Phillip Hunter, who used a fresh start on a small houseboat to finally act on an entrepreneurial pull he'd been circling for two decades. We talk about the day it stopped being an...