TGIF.
Today continues the weekly series, F*ing Fridays, which will coincidentally occur on Friday. In Year One, I mentioned some of my favorite F words back on Day 5, including: Fearless, Fabulous, Fine, Fun, Faith, Freedom, Forgiveness, to name a Few.
Last week I dove into the word fave.
Today’s F*ing Friday is dedicated to the word:
Fires.
As in, glassybaby.
It was an honor to meet Lee Rhodes from glassybaby today.
She is a three-time cancer survivor. She is the brilliance behind glassybaby. And, she is the reigning (and only female) Entrepreneur of the Year by Entrepreneur Magazine.
You can’t meet Lee and not love her!

I met her because of Melissa McClain and Debbie Phillips. Within seconds of speaking with Lee you can’t help but feel like you’ve known her forever.
Which is probably why I vomited my life story right into her lap upon first handshake. Lee’s so cool and bright, she didn’t seem to mind. I suppose that what we cancer survivors do for each other.
In fact, she is the champion for cancer survivors, thrivers, fighters, families and most of all, her employees who make these brilliant rays of light-holding glass-blown art pieces.

These beautiful pieces are so amazing, they have single handily (literally, blown by hand) built a business that has given away over a million dollars to charity.
Each glassybaby stands for a person, whether it’s the one who made it or the one who will light the flame inside it and watch it flicker and throw pops of color around the vessel, most likely hoping for a brighter day or a better prognosis.
And, I think that’s what makes them wonderful and Lee so bright and YOU so important.
Isn’t it a great reminder that we all matter? We all have a light waiting to be lit. We all know a survivor and sufferer of cancer. We all need a reminder to look on the bright side even through the dark f*ing journey.
In my year of promising to love more and fear less, all I can say is…
Come on baby, don’t just like your fire — light your fires.
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