Is it crazy to go on a spontaneous trip 5200 miles (8300 km) over the ocean, with a preparation of only two weeks? Is it imprudent to meet people on a different continent I’ve never met before and knowing them only from emails? Is it dumb to put all of your heart, your soul and your passion into something you only have read in some lines in the internet? If you would have asked me this a couple of weeks ago I would have probably answered: yes, this sounds crazy, illogical and imprudent. But today after I’ve done all these things I call it: This is bold.

To trust an inexplicable but strong feeling that says ‘you have to do this’ and to be brave enough to make this life-changing step, to move in an unknown direction, to be open for letting new people come into my life, to be willing to let them have a great impact to me, to feel comfortable with letting things simply happen… I call it: This is my new bolder life.

Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold.

When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Alan Alda

As a new member of the festival staff which will bring out BolderLife Festival in December I am proud and grateful for this experience that I could make last week.

It is exciting to see what kind of amazing people are coming together at a nice summer evening in Boulder and planning to run a festival which is going to be a great experience for guests, filmmaker’s, artists and all involved staff as well. It is moving to be a witness of the magical moment when an amazing young woman, the festival director Erin Kelly, and the passionate web designer Chris Schenk are creating a vision for the festival which reaches into the hearts and souls of the staff and that will spread out to people all over the world.

But first of all it is bold to let a stranger like me come into this circle with impartiality and a lovely heart, giving her the chance to be a part and to be involved in this exciting process. To Erin Kelly and all the other wonderful people who gave me the chance to meet them: Thank you all from the deepest of my heart.

 I was welcomed so warmly in your wonderful company of passionate, inspired, life-affirmed, broad-minded and curious people. I‘ve enjoyed every single minute of my short stay in Boulder and every single second was it worthwhile. The distance between a small German town in Saxony and the home of BolderLife Festival in Boulder, Colorado is shrinking and the bridge between these two places is a wonderful memory and a simple click on the mouse of my computer.

And I am sure there is much more to come.

written by Verena Toth (Blogmaster)

Read more next week: How the festival vision has been created.

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