How Urgency Becomes Courage

When There Is No Other Choice - How Urgency Becomes Courage

Most people think courage is something we're born with. But courage often emerges only when the cost of staying the same becomes greater than the risk of change.

Raised in Saudi Arabia during the most conservative and oppressive time, especially for women, Jasmin Faulk learned to survive by staying quiet and following the rules of a life chosen for her. When silence was no longer an option, she plotted an escape from the country that limited her and began rebuilding her life with authentic courage.

Through her extraordinary journey, this talk explores how urgency can awaken courage, revealing that bravery is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something else matters more.

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Meet Jasmin Faulk

Jasmin Faulk is an author (The Last Sandstorm, A Memoir), speaker, educator, and Executive Director of a non-profit women's advocacy organization.

Raised in Saudi Arabia, to an Arab father and Italian mother, she escaped the country as a young woman to pursue a life of freedom, education, and self-determination.

Today, Jasmin speaks internationally about women's rights, resilience, the dangers of extremism, and the transformative power of choosing authenticity and common sense over fear. Her work encourages people to examine inherited beliefs, embrace difficult conversations, and build lives rooted in truth rather than obligation.

From Mary Oliver, The Journey

One day you finally knew

what you had to do, and began,

though the voices around you

kept shouting

their bad advice...

Kahlil Gibran – The Prophet ("On Joy and Sorrow")

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?