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Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty

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Although Lisa Niver has traveled in far-off locales from Vanuatu to Nepal and received numerous accolades for both her writing and her top ranked website, what people don’t realize is that this began from the wreckage of a rotten romance.

 

Newlywed Niver was on the adventure of a lifetime. She had quit her job, rented out her condo, and was traveling around Asia. To the outside world, Niver was a woman living out her dreams of exploring ancient ruins in Cambodia and seeing orangutans in Borneo. In private, she was keeping a dark secret. But, when she found herself lying on a sidewalk in Thailand, looking up at the sky in severe pain, she knew things had to change. At age forty-seven, Niver found the courage to set course on a new life.

 

Feeling like a failure, pushing fifty, and moving home to her parents’ house to start again from scratch, Niver started taking one tiny “brave-ish” step at a time to take her life far away from the old one and into the adventurous world of travel writing. These small hurdles led to the challenge of trying fifty new things before turning fifty. From diving into shipwrecks, swimming with sharks, bobsledding at 3 Gs, to indulging in wild escapades, Niver found herself traversing the world on a journey of reinvention, personal growth, and discovering what it actually means to be “brave.”

While Brave-ish chronicles Niver’s inspiring expeditions to distant corners of the world including Myanmar, Cuba, Morocco, Kenya and Mongolia this is more than a travelogue. Niver’s story is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of perseverance. Brave-ish inspires readers to dream big, take risks, and embrace the unknown to create a life filled with wonder and excitement, even when courage seems elusive.

Forbes

“Best New Nonfiction Book By Woman Author” ⟶

  • Amazing story!

    This book was impossible to put down! I related to her story on so many levels. Lisa Niver is an incredible storyteller. I cannot wait to share this with my book club!

    Amazon Customer

  • Great book!

    I couldn't put the book down!

    Sarah Cohen Gotlieb

  • A Must Read!!

    This book will take you on Lisa's incredible journey! There are laughs and tears but most of all a book written from the heart. I wasn't able to put it down . Fascinating twists and turns but an honest and real look at relationships, challenges and adventures. This is the second book I've read from Lisa Niver! I'm already looking forward to the 3rd!

    JW

  • Beyond Brave

    Lisa’s is a story of recognizing and accepting that a major life change is needed, then let’s go, heals and excels in so many endeavors. Epically inspiring- couldn’t put it down.

    Debra Sarokin

  • Loved this book!

    Niver’s book has inspired me to be more Brave-ish in my everyday life. I consider myself a well-traveled person but after reading about her travel adventures I have added more items to my bucket list. I think this would be a great read for book clubs.

    Jennifer Zepernick

  • Journey with Lisa!

    I so enjoyed Niver’s book! So readable and I really wished I could have hugged her several times. I loved how she wove her seeing and swimming issues together throughout her life. She was like like a Phoenix in each painful iteration. Highly recommended for anyone facing tough decisions, especially midlife, who wants to come out on the other side as wiser and more adventurous!

    A. B. White

  • Powerful ending!!

    I just finished the book, absolutely wonderful!! The ending is really powerful and moving, an authentic book that reads very well.

    Marco

  • Woman, hear me roar!

    I met Lisa many years ago as we worked together on a children's television show. I read her book late into the night as I couldn't wait to see what was the next adventure she would take on. She is brave, plucky and smart and funny and has a beautiful soul. I am blessed to have met her. If you're stuck or afraid, don't be. Adventures await around every corner waiting on you to grab hold!

    pixiedust

  • Fearless

    Could rename this Fearless- Lisa Niver engages us on quite an adventure all while uplifting our spirits with her resilience and humor.

    JN

Find Braveish in the STRONG WOMAN section at Zibby’s Bookshop

Zibby's Strong Woman Braveish - June 5, 2023

"Niver’s global travel exploits had me simultaneously chewing my fingernails and cheering her on as she challenged herself to greater and riskier feats in search of self. Compelling and engrossing. A must-read for fans of Wild and Eat, Pray, Love!"

Alka Joshi
A New York Times Best Seller, a Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick- The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris

"Lisa Niver's Brave-ish is a page-turner and inspiration for anyone who finds themselves at rock bottom in mid-life. Through both grand adventures and small, life-savoring gestures, Niver pieces herself back together after heartbreak and hardship. Readers will have the great pleasure of traveling the world through Niver's stories and will be cheering her on. Don't miss this book full of heart, adventure, and, of course, courage!"

Christie Tate
A New York Times Best Seller, a Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick- GROUP and B.F.F.

"In a youth-obsessed culture where ageism has been called the “last acceptable bias,” Niver confronts her fears of being alone, supporting herself through travel, and starting over again in midlife. Her story illustrates that we can blaze our own path, if we are brave enough to begin with small steps."

HOLLY CASSANDRA CORBETT
Author of The Lost Girls, VP Consciously Unbiased

About Lisa Niver

Lisa Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries on six continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel.

 

On her award nominated global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty-two times.

 

Named a #3 travel influencer for 2023, Niver talks travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, her YouTube channel with over 2 million views, and in her memoir, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.

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Literary agent: Chip MacGregor

Publicist: Sara Stickney, sara@posthillpress.com, Post Hill Press

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Author photo by Judith Gigliotti

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