Be Moxie

BE MOXIE is a challenge for our generation to live limitless, by reaching beyond the course of our culture—No Matter What! Doing something MOXIE? Tell me about it: [email protected] Share. Tag. Connect. #BeMoxie - Kara Aubrey

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#BeMoxie in Utah!

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Moxie Minute reflects on fun, fireworks, and freedom!

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Let your heart break....it's the only way to see the need for need and for change. #BeMoxie

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Moxie Minute - "Sure Way To Have A Bad Day"

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Daddy's Day

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Inconvenience to Opportunity

Charge your cell phone in just seconds…wouldn’t that be wonderful?

18 year old recent high school graduate Eesha Khare says it is possible, taking the inconvenience of cell phone charge time and turning it into her opportunity of scientific genius. Eesha is working on an invention to charge cell phones in mere seconds!

So, why would this 18 year old take time away from high school and friends to….invent? Eesha tells the Today show, “I’m a teenager and I have a cellphone and my cellphone battery always dies, so I was really looking for a way to improve energy storage. That’s how I came across supercapacitors.’’

Eesha Khare is capitalizing on an inconvenience and creating an opportunity—that’s MOXIE

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-Kara Aubrey

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Not As It Appears

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MOXIE MOMENT - "Save My Heart" on Brazilian radio!

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END IT

The Red X – have you seen it?

The “End It” Movement started January 1, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia, where 60,000+ university students gathered to shine a light on slavery. The Red X is a symbol of unity and freedom. As ambassadors for freedom, the students wore, and still wear, the Red X on a hat, shirt, or penned on their hand representing a commitment to END IT.

The student’s goal of the END IT Movement was to bring national awareness to people who have no clue that modern day slavery is reality, and is bigger than ever.  With 27 million men, women and children, identified in 161 countries, there are more slaves today than at any other point in history. It is estimated there are 200,000 people, mostly young girls, are bought and sold as sex slaves, in the United States today.

To create awareness, the university students paid for media exposure including a costly full-page ad in USA Today, launched an online campaign, began a trend of #enditmovement, wore the Red X as walking billboards, raised money, organized events, and even ran races, leading up to April 9th.

On April 9th, a collective shout was heard around the world to millions via social media and the mainstream media to shine a light on slavery and END IT.  

END IT ambassadors also sponsored these organizations: "Made in a Free World,” “Not For Sale,” “International Justice Mission,” “Free the Slaves,” “Polaris Project,” the “A 21 Campaign,” and “Love 146.”

With courage to shine a light on this objectionable human dignity issue—slavery—these university students determination successfully spread awareness to millions people. The students are MOXIE.

Check out the video - journey from the shadows to the light to END IT, marked with a Red X.

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-Kara Aubrey

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Moxie Valedictorian

Roy Costner, class of 2013 Valedictorian, after tearing up the approved written speech which implicitly excluded prayer, he spoke courageously from the heart delivering the Lord’s Prayer. The crowd went wild in overwhelming support.

Pickens County school district has been under attack recently by the group “Freedom From Religion.” As a result, the school district voted that prayer, which had had an integral place, would no longer be welcome.

With courage and absolute determination, Valedictorian Roy Costner took the right and risk of free speech praying the Lord’s Prayer.

Roy later mentioned, “We serve an amazing God and I can promise everyone there was absolutely nothing special I did! God chose to show out and without his courage I don’t think I could have made it through His prayer from the overwhelming reaction the crowd gave bringing tears to my eyes.”

Standing up for what you believe in takes moxie. Roy is MOXIE.

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-Kara Aubrey

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Collision on the Race Track of Life

Courage and determination fuels the Indianapolis 500 the brick-yard race track−along with a special mixture of Moxie this year. 

As one of the most prestigious motorsport events in the world, Indianapolis 500 crowns the one winning champion, but this year there were two champions.

In the winner’s circle surrounded by an impassioned crowd after completing the 500 grueling miles with tears in his eyes, one of the first things Brazilian race car driver Tony Kanaan did was to pull a small medallion on a string from the right side pocket of his KV fire suit victoriously declaring “I got a little bit of luck today.”

This small medallion tucked away in his racing suit had just been sent to him by Andrea Irwin.

Ironically, Tony had given the medallion to Andrea almost a decade earlier while she was at Methodist Memorial hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. At the time as a pediatric patient scheduled for brain surgery, Andrea was facing a race for her life.

That year, like all the other previous eleven years, while Kanaan failed to win the checkered flag, Andrea had far worse flag to face−a yellow caution flag. On that day, however, Andrea’s encouragement was fueled by Kanaan’s interest in her−a moment not to be forgotten.   

This year, knowing that Kanaan was scheduled for another attempt at the brick-yard, Andrea mailed the medallion back to him with a note stating: “Here’s your good luck charm back. Now you take it and win the Indianapolis 500.”

“There were tears in all of our eyes when he won the race. Then when he pulled it out of his pocket, it was just amazing,” Andrea said. “Not only is he an amazing racer, but he’s an amazing person, too.”

While Kanaan’s medallion gift was for encouragement, good-luck, and best wishes, returning the medallion was a statement of Andrea’s fuel of courage and determination.

In the words of Andrea’s husband, Danny, “Andrea’s core values are faith and family. In every interview I’ve seen, those are the same values Tony talks about. And I know for a fact he lives by those.”

(Tony and Andrea reuniting)

Courage and determination were the character traits that fueled this special head-on collision between the race track of the Indianapolis 500 and the race track of life. Andrea is Moxie.

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-Kara Aubrey

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I'm No Angel

Well into tasting the delicacies of fame and fortune, 21-year old Kylie Bisutti, a Victoria Secret model, turned to a hearty appetite of faith. With courage and determination, Kylie Bisutti personifies what it is to BE MOXIE.

In a recent interview, Kylie states,

     “I’m working on being a positive role model for young girls. I just want them to know you don’t have to try and be sexy and get half naked to feel beautiful, there’s no happiness in getting that kind of attention….”

Kylie says, “Victoria Secret was my absolutely biggest goal in life, and it was all I ever wanted career-wise.”

Merely posing as a public prostitute, Kylie says “It definitely made me feel like I was being made to sell sex.” She has come to characterize much of the modeling industry as unhealthy, exploitative, and a destructive influence.  In an interview with the Today Show, Kylie explains, “I believe that the modeling industry as a whole really exploits young girls.”

“I’m so much happier now, and everyone tells me… there’s a light about me, that I finally found who I truly am. And, it wasn’t in that whole (modeling) world, it’s in what I’m doing now,” she shares in an interview with Glen Beck.

Kylie Bisutti penned the experience in her book entitled, “I’m No Angel” Check it out yourself or get it for one of your close friends: http://www.kyliebisutti.com/

With courage and determination, Kylie Bisutti exemplifies MOXIE in choosing to live life the way in which she believes she was made. So, what about you?

Be Moxie,

-Kara Aubrey

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HAPPY

They say “opposites attract.” Who would have thought dying and happiness could attract each other? 

“It’s really simple actually, it’s just try and make people happy… maybe you have to learn it the hard way, but as long as you learn it, you’re gonna make the world a better place,” says Zach Sobiech. Zach is MOXIE.

Zach Sobiech courageously confronted a terminal bone cancer diagnosis at the age of 17−with a smile. That was just the beginning. Zach picked up his guitar, put pen to paper, and began to write songs. Sad songs? No. Songs of happiness!

Zach says, “What makes you happy is seeing someone else smile because you put it there. That’s what’s awesome about like living in this world, so you can help people.”

Zach’s spirited songwriting expedition, though short, now reaches far beyond his short life. Not only touching millions of lives with happiness through YouTube, the soul of his songs make sense of life’s closure.

As Zach explains, “My closure is being able to get my feelings into these songs, so they can have something to remember me by, or you know, lean on, when I was gone.” 

Zach released two albums, including his hit song “Clouds” that were dedicated to raise awareness and money and for osteosarcoma research

“He’s shown me that it’s not all about the good grades you get, or how cool you are in high school, it’s about doing what makes you happy. And, no matter when you’re gonna go, to live life to the fullest every day,” says Zach’s girlfriend Amy. Zach’s sweet poetic melody he wrote to Amy his love, is entitled “Sandcastles.”

Zach’s life illustrates how the attraction of opposites can be beautiful, even as in dying and happiness−uncommon companions. The limited time seemed to accentuate Zach Sobiech’s attitude of living limitless, being courageous and determined no matter what. Zach was MOXIE.

Embracing the impossible, Zach was determined to inspire hope to others: “I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, but didn’t really lose.”

Zach passed away 2 days ago. But, through his happy songs, his life will live forever.

Watch the video of Zach's story below, from his own words. A production brought to you by SoulPancake.

Check out Zach's hit song “Clouds.” It is available on iTunes to benefit the Zach Sobiech Research Fund of Children's Cancer Research Fund http://www.childrenscancer.org/zach

BE MOXIE,

-Kara Aubrey

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The heart is always at the heart of the matter. #BeMoxie

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What you do, is an expression of who you are.  #BeMoxie