CHAPTER 4

Magnificence Is Not a Solo Journey: Finding Someone to Hold the Vision

Featured Narrative: Tim Toterhi, Founder, Plotline Leadership

Sometimes your mentors know exactly what you need.

When the brass knuckles met his face, it was with enough force to knock him to the ground. Twenty years old, Tim Toterhi had been hit many times before. It had been nearly a decade since he’d first wandered into the neighborhood karate class where Sensei Sara had taken him in and put him in the dojo with adults. But this was different. This was the street, and the attack had been planned. Tapped on the shoulder from behind, he’d been mistaken for someone else that night. It was “devastating,” he recalls during our interview. But as brutal as the physical ...

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