When Denise Donlon faces a challenge, she sometimes thinks of her father’s words of encouragement.
“Just stand up for yourself,” he would tell her. “It’s hard to do and it’s scary to do, but at the end of the day it’s the only thing to do.”
Myron Mayne was working at a retail store in Peterborough recently. He was getting daily instructions from his manager when his cellphone rang. He didn’t know what to do. He waited until his break to call back. “I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ I didn’t even want to finish off the rest of my shift,” he said. Mayne had been selected over thousands of other entrants as one of the top 20 competitors on the Much VJ Search.