Listen To What Heroes Video Expert Nerissa Oden Says When She Answers the Heroes Question “Who are the HEROES in your life now?”
Nerissa Oden: Gosh, heroes in my life? I think Joe Vitale is an excellent role model and hero to look up to. I’ve learned so much from him. Of course, I share my life with him, so I love him dearly. He’s an excellent role model and hero.
I typically haven’t looked at the people on the news as heroes. Those are the first people that really come to mind for me, when you talk about heroes besides the people that I know in my own life personally, my mother in some ways is a hero.
I didn’t have the best upbringing, but she certainly gave me the verbal support that I needed to carry my optimism and go for my dreams. So the people outside of the immediate people that I know would be, gosh, I have a lot of respect for the whistleblower people.
When they break some big news event about how the government lied and covered up a bunch of wrongdoing, or corporations lied and covered up the wrongdoing. They know they are probably going to get slandered in the news for it and the government and the corporations are protecting themselves.
I would say that those people are heroes because what they’re doing is for the betterment of everybody. They are bringing to light issues that we all have to confront and work on in order to have a better society and a better culture of life, really – clean air, clean water, all those things, keeping the Constitution in tact, I mean, just kind of name it.
Those really are the first people that come to mind. I read a lot of political stuff and Sybil Edmunds comes to mind as far as a whistleblower. I was so awed by her tenacity to be able to continue to speak out.
It may not be self-sacrificing your life but it certainly is self-sacrificing and ultimately something good will come out of it for the person. I haven’t heard those stories. I’ve always stood up for what I believe in and sometimes it didn’t happen right away.
Sometimes it’s like, wow, this is very shocking. I don’t know what to do. I have to spend time thinking what is the path here? Do I ignore this? Do I act on it? What do I do, but I’ve always gone with what I’ve felt is right.
Of course, I haven’t had any major catastrophes or events anything like people in the public eye have gone through. Everybody is in their own little world. You’re going to encounter situations where you are going to have to make a stand.