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Don’t Wait To Be

Discovered

by Brenda Kilhoffer

There’s a YouTube video of Josh Bell, a famous violinist,
playing his $100,000 Stratovarius violin in the corridors of the
subway. No one recognized him or the expensive instrument.
Orrin Woodward, in a podcast, poses the question, “What
if no one had ever recognized his talent and desire, and
Josh Bell had never played his music anywhere except the
subways?”

Or worse, “What if Josh Bell had I had to find my own way out. scary, mysterious, and completely
been convinced that because no unknown. There were no safety
one stopped to listen, he wasn’t I climbed stairways recommended rails.The stairs went both directions
good enough and gave up his by others including the “military” and were seemingly endless.
craft?” stairwell, the “employee” stairwell,
“corporate ladder” stairwell, the There was no floor. There was no
I think of my dreams that sometimes “self-employed” stairwell, and the ceiling, either!
felt like nothing more than “stay-at-home mom with a side
childhood fantasies, and wondered hustle” stairwell. All are viable The idea that I could take those
if they would remain buried in the stairwells that for some, lead to stairs anywhere I wanted thrilled
constructs of my own brain. Critics a fulfilling life full of passion and me, and not knowing where the
said they were silly, unpractical, or purpose. They even excited me for bottom was scared me. Should
only happened to “lucky people.” It a short time. There were public I take the risk? What if? What if I
pains me to think I spent so much of victories and achievements that didn’t?
my life believing them. The podcast provided short-term validation, but
reminded me that despite living my soul hungered for more. Brenda Kilhoffer is an Author,
in Metropolitan Phoenix (where International Speaker, Entrepreneur
there are no subways), and wanting They weren’t dead ends. Each and Coach at LIFE Leadership. As an
a “Metropolitan Lifestyle”, I was brought me closer to finding the Air Force Veteran, she is passionate
living in the depths of the subway. one that was right for me. Those about freedom. Her most rewarding
I knew there was something bigger, stairwells taught valuable skills roles are those in her home. She’s a
better, and more fulfilling for me, necessary for success, once I found wife and mother of four. She and her
yet believed the only way possible the one that would lead me out of family live on a 2-acre hobby farm/
was if I won the lottery or was the subway. There were experiences ranch in Waddell, AZ where they have
“discovered” by someone who could on them that tainted my belief that chickens, cattle, and horses. She and
make my dreams come true. I would ever live the life I always her husband had dreamt of “someday”
wanted. There were failures and having the financial freedom to live on
No one was searching the depths of obstacles on those stairwells that a ranch. As a result, Brenda has made
the subway to find me to give me led to bad habits, stinking thinking, it her mission to help others create
the life I’d always wanted. While and the belief that I simply wasn’t financial freedom and contribute to
there were stairs available to lead good enough and was destined achievement of a million dreams.
me out of the subway, few would to remain in the depths of those
lead me to my “Metropolitan”. The underground tunnels.
idea that Bob Barker would knock
on my door, or a lottery ticket would I chose to ignore the stairwell
rescue me, was wishful thinking. labeled, “Entrepreneurship”. It was

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