Client Spotlight: Quinn Brady
- ✓ Client since 2020
- ✓ Lives in Los Osos, CA
- ✓ Favorite impact areas: Human Rights, Equality, & Diversity
Stepping into involvement and actively participating in shaping solutions helps buoy my sense of humanity and keep me focused on what is possible. – Quinn Brady
What is a formative experience or person that shaped who you are today?
In 2010 I was living and working in a remote village in Northern Tanzania and ended up supporting a woman as she delivered her baby in a small clinic with no running water, no doctor and just one nurse helping another laboring mother in the same room. Witnessing Ester summon the strength of all the women before her as she birthed Mzee, and lean into her own power and courage forever changed something in me, and how I have operated in the world since then.
What’s a guilty pleasure you enjoy to recharge?
My favorite recharge is a solo hike or trail run. Amidst the chaos, I find clarity, insight and perspective out on a trail surrounded by nature with just the sound of my own breath.
How do you keep your cynicism at bay?
Good friends who aren’t afraid to speak the truth, and by taking action. It’s easy to grow fearful, anxious, cynical about the world around us when so much is hard everyday. But stepping into involvement to actively participate in shaping solutions keeps me motivated and focused on what is possible and helps buoy my sense of humanity.
What book/podcast do you find yourself continually revisiting?
Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Letters to A Young Poet” is the one book I have carried to every place I have ever lived and read countless times. The pages are torn and stained and underlined and his reflections on relationship and solitude and the human experience offer up something new every time I reopen the book.
Astronauts call it the overview effect: a shift in awareness when humans view the totality of their home planet. What do you see when you view our Earth from afar?
I always think of the duality of earth. Both the complexity and simplicity, fragility and resilience, individual experience and collective responsibility. And the human impact as both a speck in the immensity of it all and the infinite possibility for good.
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