AIRED: August 1, 2016 – 11 am PST
TITLE: “ON THE VERGE: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine”
SPECIAL GUEST: Cara Bradley
Website: www.carabradley.net
In the final race of her college track career, author and mental strength coach Cara Bradley beat her personal best by a remarkable six seconds. Until then she had been an average runner hampered by pre-race jitters and self-doubt. But on that day, after a pre-race warm-up where she repeated the phrase “personal best, personal best” out loud, she was in the flow and buoyed by a sense of calm confidence.
“After my extraordinary experience on the track, I knew my life would never be the same,” says Cara. During that race, I encountered who I was capable of becoming and I refused to settle for less by falling back asleep. I became hungry for answers, sparking a lifelong curiosity about my own and human potential in general.”
In ON THE VERGE: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine, Cara distills everything she’s learned in the years since about human potential and what it means to thrive. Then, she gives readers the tools they need to intentionally experience their natural state of clarity and vitality in their everyday lives, the same flow that allowed her to achieve her personal best.
Cara wrote ON THE VERGE for those want to more energy, enthusiasm, openness, and confidence. Her book calls readers to experience aliveness daily by shifting beyond our busy minds and into the present moment. It is an invitation for readers to live their lives in a way that allows them to meet their full potential, so they shine in every moment.
ABOUT CARA BRADLEY
Cara Bradley eryt, cscs, is an author, yoga teacher, mental strength coach, former pro-skater for Team Rollerblade® and entrepreneur having devoted more than three decades to movement disciplines and personal transformation. She is the founder of Verge Yoga in Philadelphia and the cofounder of a non-profit Mindfulness Through Movement, providing full year mindfulness programs to more than a dozen schools in urban Philadelphia. She is the host of a podcast series for Women for One called Real Women, Courageous Wisdom. Her upcoming book, On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine (New World Library) will be available in April 2016.
Cara reaches a nationwide audience through her Verge On-Demand Classes, workshops and retreats, and talks on human potential and presents at national conferences, corporations and universities.
Known as a mental strength coach to athletes, she has been training teams and elite athletes, including professional athletes, for over ten years with her unique Fierce Focus Mental Strength Training Program. Teams include Villanova Football, Lacrosse, Soccer and Basketball, Penn State Basketball, University of Pennsylvania Soccer, St. Joseph’s Soccer and Field Hockey, and the USYSA Olympic Development Program.
Cara competed as a figure skater and turned professional at the age of fifteen when she began teaching. As a pro skater for Team Rollerblade, a performance group for Rollerblade Inc., she performed shows in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. She created and starred in SkateFit: The Complete In-Line Skating Workout (ABA Productions, 1994) and co-authored In-Line Skate New England: The Complete Guide to 101 Tours(Countryman Press, 2003) with Cindy Copeland Lewis and Tom Lewis.
She graduated Magna Cum Laude from New York University, B.S. International Business and Economics and has started a dozen successful businesses including Blade Skatewear and Camp Rollerblade. She is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher ERYT with Yoga Alliance.
