Brand Story
I’m Orla, and I’m so excited to share the story behind our brand with you. It all began with a very simple, yet powerful question, and it’s a question that has stuck with me since I was first asked it. The question is this: What would you do, if you were ten times braver?
I want you to take a moment to think about that, if you will. You see, this isn’t about what you would do if you were richer or had a better job or if life had worked out differently for you. But rather, it is about what you would do with your life, as it is right now, if you were ten times braver. Can you see why I find it so profound? It’s because it forces you to look inward for both question and answer. And that is where I have come to believe our biggest, bravest lives exist already, inside ourselves.
For me, my answer was what you’re looking at right now. Our brand. My braver, bolder life involves sharing my learnings from a lifetime of anxiety, from years of interviewing the most successful sporting and business brains, from choosing a very public career and all the trolling that has brought my way, my journey to sobriety and through to my longstanding fascination and love for philosophy, meditation and exercise. It is the bringing together of all of this in a way that I truly hope will resonate, and will make a difference to your life.
There is a reason you have found yourself on this website. If you know there’s something bigger waiting for you, if you can feel in your gut that you were meant for more, and the world was meant for more of you, then we are your community.
If you are hungry for a bigger life, but are holding yourself back because of a fear of failure, because of a fear of standing out, a fear of success even, then this is your support.
Here, you will find a growing range of products, as well as details of real-life events that bring our community to life. We are only getting started, but I want to make this your one-stop shop for all things bravery, from mind, to body, to lifestyle.
And because I know that there is already a tonne of advice and products out there which claim to make your life better, I won’t waste your time. I know you’re busy. I’m a trained journalist and I do the research so you don’t have to. I only offer top quality products that are worth your money, and valuable hacks that I can fit it into my own busy life.
Bravery is not the absence of fear; it is feeling fear and going right ahead and doing it anyway.
Welcome to Ten Times Braver – where your braver life begins.
A Note from Orla
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I want to let you in on something.
When I tell people that I have anxiety, they are usually shocked, sometimes disbelieving. You see, I have a busy, international career working in live sports TV. I podcast and write. I have two young kids and have the usual balances and juggles of family life. And for some, that seems to be incompatible with anxiety.
But here’s the secret - I have come to believe that I live such a full and mostly happy life because of anxiety, not despite it. Anxiety is truly my superpower. I have to face fears, nerves, and worry on a daily basis. Sometimes just to get out of bed. Discomfort is my comfort zone.
And because I have experienced a lifetime already of questioning how real my worries are and what they’re trying to teach me, it has forced me to constantly push beyond my boundaries of familiarity. When everything feels scary, in a strange way, nothing really does.
I am on a mission to help you work out how to allow fear to be your teacher, whether you have anxiety or not. Because I believe you have all the answers to your bigger, braver life inside you. Those answers may be hidden under years of societal or family pressure, they may be constrained by the evolutionary fear of standing out, or by the learned fear of success and the changes that would require, but you are there, underneath it all. I believe if we could all be brave enough to live the life that’s right for us, the life that’s meant for us, then the world would be a happier, less frustrated, less angry place.
This website is where I want to share resources with you that help in prioritising your mind, your body and a lifestyle of small changes that make the bigger changes possible.
Together with my team, I want to support you in becoming your bravest and most authentic self. This is not about becoming a whole new person. Rather, it’s about becoming the person you were meant to be all along.
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