BRIDGES TO BRAVERY

Bridges to Bravery™

is a year-long leadership development and personal transformation journey.

Brave Women Project®

and HERera®

have combined their unique strengths to support
women 50 and over as they navigate significant transitions and growth with greater confidence, courage,
and community.

Created exclusively through the collaboration between Brave Women Project® and HERera®, this first-of-its-kind experience brings together a transformational framework, meaningful personal development, and the power of community specifically for women 50 and over. You won’t find this approach or this experience anywhere else.

Bridges to Bravery™ is uniquely ours, and intentionally designed for the women ready to discover what’s next.

Brave Women Project is a thriving community where women are encouraged to grow through the 5 Es for Life: Educate, Empower, Encourage, Engage, and Evolve, while strengthening four core areas of growth: Relationships, Professional Development, Impact, and Wellness.

HERera contributes a groundbreaking leadership and human development framework that helps women reconnect with who they truly are, align with what matters most, and lead their lives with authenticity, intention, and coherence - the unified condition from which human potential is fully expressed.

This collaboration is more than a program. It is the beginning of a movement for women who know their greatest contributions are not behind them. It helps women rediscover the wisdom, strengths, and purpose that have always been within them and empowers them to step confidently into what comes next. Whether navigating career transitions, retirement, caregiving, an empty nest, loss, entrepreneurship, personal reinvention, or simply sensing there is another chapter waiting to be written, Bridges to Bravery provides the guidance, relationships, and support to move forward with confidence.

For decades, women have been handed an impossible list of contradictions:

Be successful, but not showy.
Intelligent, but not intimidating.
Assertive, but still likable.
Stylish, but age appropriate.
Confident, but not too confident.
Experienced, but still relevant.

What if, at this point in your life, you stopped measuring yourself against all the “but not too much” rules? You have spent decades becoming who you are. Bridges to Bravery is an opportunity to decide, with intention, who you want to
be next.

If part of you knows there is more ahead - even if you cannot fully name it yet - Bridges to Bravery is a place to explore that next chapter with honesty, support, and courage. Bridges to Bravery is for women who know they are not finished, not fading, and not defined by a single season of life.

Bridges to Bravery is for women who:

Want more than a conversation; they want momentum.
Are ready to stop second-guessing and start stepping forward.
Are ready to honor what they've lived and claim what is still possible.
Want to be supported, challenged, and reminded of who they already are.
Know this isn't about starting over; it's moving forward with greater intention.
May not have everything figured out, but have the courage to take the next steps.

Designed as a permanent initiative of Brave Women Project in partnership with HERera, Bridges to Bravery is not a workshop, a networking group, or a short-term course. It is a year-long community rooted in belonging, transformation, and accountability.

Through meaningful relationships, honest conversations, shared experiences, expert guidance, visibility-building opportunities, and practical tools, women gain renewed clarity, strengthen their confidence, expand their possibilities,
and create lives that reflect who they are today, not who they once were expected to be.

Bridges to Bravery is where the journey begins. It provides the confidence to take the first step, the courage to cross the bridge into what's next, and the community to ensure you never have to make the journey alone.

Confidence to step. Courage to cross. Community so you don't have to do it alone.

About HERera®

Leadership for a New Era
Angela Patete, Founder & CEO (Chief Embodiment Officer)

HERera® was created from a simple yet profound observation: lasting transformation isn't just about becoming someone new — it's about becoming more fully who you already are.

In a world that often measures success by performance alone, HERera offers a different perspective: Leadership is not simply about what we accomplish, but about integrating who we are, who we become, and how we lead along the way. When individuals cultivate greater clarity, authenticity, and inner alignment, they naturally create stronger relationships, healthier organizations, and more meaningful impact.

Leadership for a new era is about leading with greater coherence. HERera exists to help women come home to themselves so they can live, lead, and contribute with greater clarity, courage, connection, and purpose.

Leadership begins with coming home to who you are. Meet Angela Patete and the HERera philosophy.

Discover HERera

Bridges to Bravery Member Experience

Your journey begins with your complimentary Personal Bridge Assessment, a meaningful online survey.

Once it's complete, you'll receive your link to register for the Bridges to Bravery Dinner ($100, credited toward your investment) on October 13, 2026 (5:30 - 7:30 pm) at LeMont Pittsburgh for an information session, three course meal, valet parking, cash bar, and the first glimpse of your profile.

This evening will be your opportunity to decide if Bridges to Bravery is a fit for you.

Bridges to Bravery is intentionally limited to 50 women, ages 50 and over, so that every member is known, not just enrolled. This is not a program you sign up for. It is a community you are welcomed into. We invite interested women to share a little about themselves so we can ensure the experience is the right fit for where they are right now by taking the Personal Bridge Assessment.

Your Personal Bridge Profile is completely confidential. Your individual assessment results will be seen only by the three facilitators and will not be shared with other participants, BWP members, leadership, or anyone outside the Bridges to Bravery facilitation team. Your results are yours, and you will always have the choice of what, if anything, you wish to share as part of the experience.

Take the Personal Bridge Assessment

Dinner & Information Session

Once you complete the Personal Bridge Assessment, you'll receive your link to register for the Bridges to Bravery Dinner on October 13, at LeMont Pittsburgh.

Personal Bridge Profile & Journal

Every Bridges to Bravery participant receives her own Personal Bridge Profile and dedicated journal.

Membership to BWP*

Giving you access to the broader BWP community and additional opportunities to connect, grow, and engage throughout the year.

(a $125 value)

Admission to the 2026 Pillar Awards

Your membership includes a seat the 2026 Pillar Awards Dayla on November 20.

(a $110 value)

Monthly Gatherings

Held the first Tuesday of each month, starting in January 2027, with the exception of

July and December, at LeMont from 3:00 to 5:30 PM.

Long-Term Support

Bridges to Bravery is intentionally designed as an ongoing initiative, not a

short-term program.

The Women Guiding Your Journey

Founder & CEO (Chief Embodiment Officer)
HERera®

Angela Patete

Angela Patete is a corporate leader and strategist with more than 35 years of experience operating inside complex power systems. She brings a rare ability to translate lived leadership experience into insight, clarity, and grounded guidance.

Her leadership philosophy was shaped through decades of experience navigating corporate leadership, high-performance environments, and human transformation. Her work bridges strategic business expertise with a deep understanding of human development, creating an approach that is both practical and profoundly transformative.

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Angela built a successful career in corporate leadership and technology sales, including nearly two decades with Apple, where she became a top-performing sales executive serving K-12 education. She understands strategy, influence, negotiation, and results from lived experience inside competitive, male-dominated environments, while simultaneously developing a keen intuitive awareness that informed her guidance long before she had language for it.

Angela's tenure at Apple was marked by sustained excellence and measurable impact. She earned multiple sales awards and national accolades, including being ranked the #1 Account Executive in the United States twice, achieving the #1 position as the top Account Executive in the Eastern U.S., and receiving multiple award trips.

Today, through public speaking, transformational experiences, social media storytelling, and one-on-one work, Angela supports and activates women to reclaim their agency, authority, and self-trust. She is known for her clarity, warmth, humor, and unapologetic truth-telling, offering insight that is both grounding and catalytic.

Angela, also known as The Rose Heart, is the author of Women, Sex, & Power: The Matriarch's Rise in the Age of Awakening. She is a proud mother to an adult son and devoted cat mom to her tuxedo companion, Cupid. A lifelong Pittsburgher and avid Steelers fan, Angela enjoys exploring the city's neighborhoods, attending music events and festivals, traveling throughout the Caribbean, taking cruise vacations, and supporting women-centered organizations throughout the community.

Angela just so happens to have a fondness for collecting one-of-a-kind stemless wine glasses.

Executive Director
Brave Women Project®

Kelli A. Komondor

As a founding member and Executive Director of Brave Women Project® (BWP), Kelli Komondor has made advancing, connecting, and celebrating women central to her work.

She believes deeply in creating spaces where women can recognize their strengths, use their voices, build meaningful relationships, and have the confidence to determine what comes next, making her work with Bridges to Bravery especially meaningful.

In 2023, Kelli created the Pillar Awards, now the flagship event of Brave Women Project, to recognize and celebrate extraordinary women who embody and amplify BWP’s 5 Es for Life: Educate, Empower, Encourage, Engage, and Evolve. Her dedication to advancing women has also been recognized with a 2023 Cribs for Kids Women of Achievement Award.

As the founder of K2 Creative, Kelli developed her signature VIBE approach, focused on Visibility, Influence, and Brand Elevation. Her work has helped clients earn features on major platforms including Dr. Phil, ABC’s Jet 24, Pittsburgh Today Live, Ya Jagoff! Media, Talk Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Business Times, The Boston Herald, The New York Telegraph, and Spill with Me Jenny D.

Her belief in the power of women’s stories led her to create the Amazon bestselling anthology Twenty Won: 21 Female Entrepreneurs Share Their Stories of Business Resilience During a Global Crisis in 2020. The collection brought together the experiences of 21 women entrepreneurs who demonstrated resilience, innovation, and strength during an unprecedented time.

Across her leadership, writing, speaking, mentorship, and visibility work, one thread remains constant: Kelli is passionate about helping women recognize the value of their experiences, amplify their voices, and step more fully into who they are and what they want next.

Beyond her professional and community work,
she is a wife, proud mother of two adult children, and a doting aunt and great-aunt, also known as "AK".

Kelli is a lover of love, writing, and food, and a hater of hate, chaos, and stemless wine glasses.

Leadership Coach, Communication Strategist,

Workshop Facilitator, Author, Speaker

AhHA! Leadership Coaching & Consulting

Amy Hooper Hanna

Amy Hooper Hanna knows the power of that moment when insight becomes momentum.

She brings 30 years of experience in leadership development, employee engagement, and organizational communication to enlightening training facilitation and creative program design.

Amy's career spans a decade consulting with Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies on employee engagement and communication effectiveness at a global human capital firm, followed by another decade at a leading talent management firm, where she assessed corporate leadership behavior and delivered developmental feedback to help executives grow.

In between, she founded her own independent practice, Amy Hooper Hanna & Associates (AhHA!), which translates research into coaching focused on making people-leadership easier through practical wisdom that works.

As a strategist, researcher, communicator, and coach, Amy's gift lies in asking the right questions and listening closely to help people find clarity, alignment, and forward motion.

That same skill now shapes her approach to this program: designing an experience that helps women move past the noise of who they're "supposed" to be and into intentional, wholistic leadership of their own lives.

Amy is also co-creator of the Amazon best-seller For She Who Grieves: Practical Wisdom for Living Hope, a collection of interviews with women on the joys and woes of life, and serves on Brave Women Project's board as Communication Chair and Secretary.

As a single mother of three, she brings both professional expertise and lived experience to this work.

Amy's not picky about the glass. Wine is wine, and she'll toast with whatever's handed to her, as long as it's not in a plastic or paper cup.

Leadership Circle

The members of our Leadership Circle have taken the assessment and the revelations
are already helping them navigate their next chapters with purpose and assurance.

These four women have also helped shape the program itself, bringing their perspectives, experiences, questions, and insights to the development of the Bridges to Bravery curriculum. Working alongside our facilitators, they are helping ensure this journey reflects the real experiences, transitions, opportunities,
and challenges women are navigating in this season of life.

Kym Gable

Vision & Voice Communications Coaching

Lynne Popash

Popash Partnership Strategies

Karen Quinn

Brentwood Bank

Dress For Success Pittsburgh Board Member

Tracy Montarti

Tracy Montarti Founder
Your Masterpiece Life™ |
Villa Montarti

Take the Personal Bridge Assessment

Your Investment: $2,200

Bridges to Bravery™ is a one-year journey for women who are ready
to stop managing life and start leading it.

Ten sessions. One community.

This is your invitation to claim the:
Confidence to step.

Courage to cross.

Community so you don't have to do it alone.

You'll find out everything that's included when you attend the
Bridges to Bravery Dinner on October 13.

Flexible payment plans are available.

Contact Kelli at kelli@bwp.life for more information.

*Brave Women Project® (BWP) is a nonprofit, community-driven organization focused on fostering a psychologically safe environment and radical support for women's personal and professional growth. Because our mission prioritizes engagement and development over

sales-based or recruitment-driven business activities, we have found that BWP’s membership model is not the best fit for individuals whose work is based in network marketing, multi-level marketing (MLM), or downline-based compensation.

Membership Dues: Membership dues are generally non-refundable. However, if membership is terminated within the first 14 days due to incompatibility with the organization’s guidelines, a refund may be granted at the discretion of our membership committee.