Tiffany Agnew and friends cheering after New Year's Eve 5 km (Image: submitted)
Saint John media consultant Tiffany Agnew continues to mentor and motivate through her online personal development membership, Embrace Your BRAVE Tribe, and believes people can learn from other people’s experiences.
“I know firsthand what it’s like to be in that place where you’re really stuck and not moving forward, but you have all these things you want to do,” said Agnew.
Agnew was inspired by her 18 year old son Braedon, who passed away in 2018 from hepatopulmonary syndrome, a rare lung complication of liver disease, to become the bravest and most extraordinary version of herself.
Soon after she founded The Braedon Foundation in September 2018, serving as a legacy in Braedon’s memory by creating joy through Happy Heart Bedroom Makeovers and shopping sprees to New Brunswick children living with serious illnesses. The foundation has raised $30,000 thus far.
Tiffany repelling off the Hilton (Image: submitted)
In 2019, Agnew created the 100 Brave Things Project, where she challenged herself to do one hundred brave things. Some of her accomplishments since then include rappelling off the Hilton and raised $1000 for fundraiser Over The Edge, running 5 km on New Years Eve, and holding a lizard on her head. Her next goal is to hike the Fundy Footpath on June 23.
Agnew believes people can learn from each other’s experiences. “I want to really inspire other women out there to be brave with their lives so that they can live more fulfilled, more meaningful lives, doing the things that they keep saying they’ll do someday,” she said.
Embrace Your BRAVE Tribe’s membership sign up began on May 29 and will continue until June 7. It is an ongoing monthly membership with its official launch and teachings starting on June 8. After June 7 membership will close until it reopens in September.
Embrace Your BRAVE Tribe logo (Image: Facebook page)
BRAVE Tribe is currently centered on Facebook, with live coaching and goal setting at the start of every month, which will be reviewed at the month’s end.
“People can look at what goals they set, what goals they achieved, and really learn from what happened during the month,” said Agnew. “A lot of people, they set goals and they write them down on a piece of paper and then they stuff them in a drawer and they forget that they ever wrote them.”
Health & Wellness, Goal Setting & Habit Formation, Personal Development & Self Improvement, Mindset and Bravery are the central tenants of Embrace Your BRAVE Tribe.
“I think that those are the components for really living a meaningful, fulfilled life,” said Agnew. “There’s the big things that we need to do, but there are little things too that take guts and courage.”
Tiffany Agnew conquering a reptilian in a unique manner (Image: submitted)
She plans on bringing in guest trainers, weekly live coaching sessions where members submit questions in advance or ask questions live through Facebook and share PDF resources and the group’s archive of recorded Facebook sessions and talks.
“Once a week there will be a live coaching session where people can submit questions in advance or they can pop on live and ask questions,” she said. “Then once a month I’ll bring on a member with me, so that they can talk about something that they’re struggling with and ask questions and the community can be a part of that.”
Agnew is also planning to give away three year-long scholarships to women who would like to join the Embrace Your BRAVE Tribe, but feel they aren’t able to make the financial commitment at present.
Ultimately, “its goal is to move people from wishing, hoping, and dreaming that their life were different, to taking action,” said Agnew.
