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FROM THE FIELD

The Essence of

Leadership is Vision

Baron Robison, ACB, CL

At the age of 54, I found myself staring at a life foundation committed to “Supporting those

I didn’t expect. Sometimes the best plans in the who have fought or are fighting the good fight
world just don’t work out. No matter how many againt cancer, along with educating people
details you work on and put into the course you on how to live an anti-cancer lifestyle”. This
want, things just happen. That is where I was foundation has now gained the support of local
before I read a very powerful quote, “Set yourself business leaders in Salem, Oregon along with
earnestly to discover what you are made to do, a number of cancer survivors who agree with
then give yourself passionately to the doing of the message on the shirt. More information on
that thing.” (Martin Luther King) this foundation can be found at HelpTeamBrenda.
In January 2018 I decided, at the age of 54, to com or on HelpTeamBrenda@fb.

do the Warrior Dash with my sister, Brenda
Farris. Brenda battled through breast
cancer in 2016-17 which had metastisized.
She managed it through diet and exercise.
So a 3.1 mile, 12-obstacle course, through
mud, sounded like a fun thing to do
together.

Little did either of us realize that by
May 19, 2018 when the Warrior Dash
happened, that my enthusiasm for the
event would garner 42 “friends” supporting
GoTeamBrenda. Nor did we think that over
250 people in over 25 different “locations”
(states and countries) would want a shirt
that expressed our frustration by saying
“Kickin’ Cancer in the ___!

Least of all did we expect to form a

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