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Teri Brown Shares Wisdom To Help You Begin Your Own Big Adventure
Sunday, 27 July, 2025
Hello again, I hope you have had a good weekend. Today, I'm sharing the first new episode of The What's Your Excuse? Show in over a year. This time I had the pleasure of speaking with Teri M. Brown a long-time award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, and even a Children's picture book. At first we talked about her writing and how being a novelist was a life long ambition that she finally got to do a few years ago. That lead to talking about her children's picture book because Little Lola and Her Big Dream is all about going after a big goal even when you face opposition. I do have to apologize for butchering the title of her book. We spoke a lot about her book 10 Little Rules Of A Double-Butted Adventure sharing the lessons learned when she and her late husband Bruce peddled cross-country on a tandem bike. One of her most important rules is never quit on a bad day. She clarified that she isn't telling people not to quit. She is just saying don't quit on a bad day. She shared how this applied to finally leaving a bad marriage facing the possible stigma of being twice divorced. Then she described how this rule helped her through an especially bad day on the trail. And I shared how hearing this lesson from her prior to my Chicago trip helped me through an especially bad day. Later on we talked about another of her rules. Which is do something hard every day. Many of these hard things focus around recovering from recently losing her husband to cancer. She has a great take on bucket lists and why they don't work. But you will have to listen all the way through to find that out. I feel Teri sincerely wants you to overcome all the things that are holding you back so you can begin your own big adventure. Some Notes 1: I recorded this episode live over StreamYard. There are a few spaces where the audio quality is less than ideal, but these things happen with a live recording. For those who have followed me for a long time, you know I just don't edit. I'm not good at it, and trying to edit would turn into an excuse for not releasing my content. 2: Yes, I do sing on the intro. I like starting with the chorus to my song What's Your Excuse. People enjoy the song, and I have come to understand that I have a really good voice. On With The Show I want to thank Teri personally for being part of my current big adventure. That being progressing towards hosting a daily live podcast. Most of the new episodes will be on my new podcast The Accessibility Advantage. As my future is offering accessibility advice through writing, speaking, consulting, and podcasting. I really enjoy having conversations like this one with awesome people like Teri, and I know y'all really benefit from sharing actionable advice like hers. So, I'll keep them coming as long as I have compelling guests and a loyal audience wanting to listen. About Teri Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri M. Brown now calls the North Carolina coast home. In 2020, she and her late husband, Bruce, rode a tandem bicycle across the United States from Astoria, Oregon to Washington DC, successfully raising money for Toys for Tots. Teri’s debut novel, Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, is a historical fiction set in Ukraine, her second, An Enemy Like Me, is set in WWII, and her third, Daughters of Green Mountain Gap, is a generational story about Appalachian healers. Her short story, The Youngest Lighthouse Keeper, came out in the anthology Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women. 10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure (Feb 2025), is an inspirational look at the life lessons she learned riding across the United States on a tandem bicycle. Her latest book, Little Lola and Her Big Dream, is a children’s picture book helping children realize that it is okay to have big dreams even in the face of opposition. Connect With Teri Website: www.terimbrown.
