{"id":189,"date":"2019-03-05T08:26:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2019-03-04T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T23:24:59","slug":"carol-campaign-director-1000-acts-of-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/carol-campaign-director-1000-acts-of-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol &#8211; Campaign Director, 1000 Acts of Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An act of courage submission for the 1000 Acts of Courage campaign \u2013 a community-building conscious action campaign collecting one thousand courageous acts for the well-being, empowerment, and equity of girls and women: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/53274731_2260742250849778_8095875729322934272_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&amp;_nc_eui2=AeF4cyZstVz2UNgpb8tzNfIGacfCjgePQACGNplKa80QLQrbR7mOQEpY0wsq-gtCnKCC3k-_d3VCLKXdwnXwhOMnEMMDqLK9-T9kII2PVYYqZw&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&amp;oh=bcb480140e35f114c53c486951537c7d&amp;oe=5CE21096\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew that wasn&#8217;t happy in my work and I held a vision for starting a program for girls where they could work with a core group of adults and follow their passions in the arts. In June, I gave my employer a 6 month notice that I would be leaving effective December 1st. In November, 3 weeks before I would be out of a job, I was told about a school that was going to be starting in Indianapolis. They were looking for a principal\/school director. I watched a video about the school design, which was based on helping teens follow their passions and have internships &#8211; just what I was imagining. I interviewed for the position and started my first day the Monday after my 6 month notice was up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I basically walked away from a job without having another one and with only a vision of what I wanted to create. I was a divorced parent with two daughters at the time, so money was really tight. But I felt like teen young women needed something different for school and for their lives. I ended up starting a high school and young women got opportunities to try on careers that they wouldn&#8217;t have thought possible. While it was the hardest job I&#8217;ve ever had, I did experience the power of holding a vision and going for your dreams and having them come true.&nbsp;\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/acts-of-courage-form\">JOIN THIS POWERFUL MOVEMENT! CLICK HERE AND SUBMIT YOUR ACT OF COURAGE TODAY! <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An act of courage submission for the 1000 Acts of Courage campaign \u2013 a community-building conscious action campaign collecting one thousand courageous acts for the well-being, empowerment, and equity of girls and women: I knew that wasn&#8217;t happy in my work and I held a vision for starting a program for girls where they could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,80],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-conscious-action","tag-1000-acts-of-courage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}