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Tiny Brave Steps: Real Women. Real Fear. Real Courage Stories.

Tiny Brave Steps: Real Women. Real Fear. Real Courage Stories.

By: Bernice McDonald
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She was told by her own team that if she got into trouble, they wouldn’t come to save her. She showed up anyway—every single day for fourteen years. She walked into literal fires while fighting one inside her own chest. And one day, she decided surviving wasn’t enough anymore.


That’s one story. There are so many more.


Tiny Brave Steps is where real women tell the truth about the hardest things they’ve ever walked through—and how they found their way to the other side.


Not with some dramatic, made-for-TV moment. But with what I call Tiny Brave Steps - the kind of courage that happens one terrified, trembling choice at a time.


These are women who’ve faced the fire.


A surgery that stole everything and gave her more than she ever imagined.

A caregiving journey with no finish line.

A fourteen-year silence finally broken.


These aren’t superhero stories. They’re your-neighbor, your-sister, your-friend stories. The kind where you listen and think, That could be me.


I’m Bernice McDonald, Creator of the Tiny Brave Steps method and author of The Little Books of Courage.


Each episode, I walk you through one woman’s journey using the Courage Map - a path from feeling “not enough” to becoming “brave enough.”


You’ll hear her real voice. Her real fear. And the real moment she decided to take that next step - even though her hands were shaking.


Because here’s the truth I want you to know: Courage is never the absence of fear. It’s the judgment that something matters more than the fear.


If you’ve ever whispered I’m not brave enough for this—this podcast was made for you.


New episodes weekly. Bring your heart. Leave with courage.





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  • Jill's Story: When The Picture Shatters

    Jill's Story: When The Picture Shatters
    Mar 11 2026

    What do you do when the life you dreamed of — the one constant picture you held in your heart since you were a little girl — just doesn't happen?

    Jill wanted to be a mom to a house full of kids. That was the dream. Simple. Pure. The kind that settles into a little girl's heart and never leaves.

    Then she lost three babies, and with each loss, something darker than grief took root — blame. The voice that whispered your body should have been able to protect them. You failed.

    She became someone she didn't recognize. Someone bitter. Someone who couldn't feel happy for friends announcing pregnancies. Someone so focused on the children she didn't have that she was missing out on the child she did.

    In this episode, you'll walk with Jill through the moment a single quote stopped her in her tracks, the courage it took to hold grief and gratitude in the same hands, and the hard-won truth that a shattered picture doesn't mean a shattered life.

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    Jillian Armstrong is the owner of Custom Safety Services Ltd.

    Website: https://customsafetyservicesltd.com/
    Email: customsafetyservices@gmail.com

    Tiny Hands of Hope:

    Website: https://tinyhandsofhope.ca
    Email: info@tinyhandsofhope.ca

    Tiny Hands of Hope Society is a non-profit organization whose mission is to work within our community of Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada and area to support families who have suffered from all types of pregnancy and infant loss. They are dedicated to raising awareness and helping others during their time of need and in their time of grieving.

    Tiny Brave Steps is hosted by Bernice McDonald — Creator of the Tiny Brave Steps Methodology and Author of the Little Books of Courage. She's the woman in your corner when life gets hard.

    Have a courage story? Know a woman whose story needs to be heard? Reach out at bernice@bernicemcdonald.com.
    Learn more at www.tinybravesteps.com.
    Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernicemcdonald/
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