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Why Your Fear Looks Like Courage to Everyone Else | with Kimié Miner

What if the thing you're most afraid to show is the exact thing people need from you? In this Manaʻo Bomb, Kimié Miner's journey shows how the work we hide is often the work that connects us. From writing songs alone on a Kona beach to singing an unheard original for a reggae star in a green room and finally releasing her own music without waiting for permission, her story is for anyone sitting behind a closed door with something real inside it, and learning that what feels like exposure from the inside almost always looks like courage from the outside.

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