Center of Daring

06/18/2026

Thank you, Create Campaign, for the opportunity to strengthen our business!

We’re moving forward with more clarity and connections, and we can’t wait to watch this cohort of entrepreneurs and friends thrive too!

06/06/2026

Liz’s final session of the Spark Business Academy through Create Campaign was last Thursday. Cohort 12 graduates on Tuesday!

We’re excited to watch these 20 small businesses and their founders grow and thrive!

06/02/2026

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Some businesses only show their Pride in June. Not us!

Most of our team of contractors are q***r all year so we celebrate every day! (The rest of our team are fierce allies and they celebrate too!)

"We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are. We have to show the world that we are numerous." — Sylvia Rivera

[Image is a photo of four people: Shana and Liz are with two Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from the Emerald City Sisters chapter. Shana is a Black, nonbinary person with shoulder-length locs wearing glasses and a black t-shirt. Liz is a white woman with shoulder-length medium brown hair wearing a gray t-shirt that says Trans Kids Belong. The Sisters are both wearing fancy white habits, faces painted white. One has a blondish beard, rainbow suspenders and a rainbow tulle tutu. The other has a green beard and and is wearing a 70s-vibey blues, greens and cream-colored dress.]

05/26/2026

Kansans are Uprising. At least, that was the theme for last week’s Networked conference hosted by Network Kansas, Kansas Health Foundation and Kansas Leadership Center, and organized by the incredible, incomparable Christina Long (pictured with the warrior hair and earrings—her words) of CML Collective and Create Campaign.

Liz connected with Kansans from across the state who are passionate about Upward Mobility, including some of her friends from her 2025 Leadership Kansas cohort!

She's glad to have had a lovely three-day weekend to rest and rejuvenate so that she can take the energy from the conference into her work this week and the rest of the year!

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05/19/2026

We're excited about having this program out in the world!

Thanks to Kansas Reflector for sharing its release!

TOPEKA — A Wichita organization created an online training program for su***de prevention and mental health education to improve the care that LGBTQ+ Kansans receive when they reach out to crisis resources, including the 988 Su***de and Crisis Lifeline.

05/08/2026

It’s Small Business Week, so it’s a great time to thank our clients, contractors, collaborators, and community partners who’ve helped us grow through the past five years!

We look forward to many more years of courageous leadership with you all!

[Image is a sepia-toned photo of Liz, Center of Daring founder/owner. She's a white woman with medium-length, light brown wavy hair, wearing glasses, dangly rainbowy earrings, and a black blouse with white pin stripes. Next to her head and shoulder is the Center of Daring logo (a 2D rainbowy dodecadehedron) and the words, "Center of Daring is offically a certified Woman-Owned Small Business!" Two U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) logos are near her shoulder. One says, "WOSB Certified" and the other says, "EDWOSB Certified".]

04/28/2026

Thanks, lee originals!

Back during the anti-trans bathroom and gender marker nonsense whipped up by Kansas legislators seemingly solely for cruelty points, izzy lee originals saw the work I was doing for my community and offered a free sticker for my business.

I just received it and a few others in the mail today!

izzy lee originals is selling these stickers individually or in sets! There are other state stickers available as well. Go check them out!




[Image is a photo of a small note typed on cardstock along with a handful of stickers, on my lap with lavender tissue paper behind them. The sticker at the bottom of the note card is a Kansas-shaped progress Pride flag that says, "We Belong Here". There's also a Pride flag sticker where each color is a different nature pic and a Magic 8 ball sticker that asks, "When will we have inclusive bathrooms?" and the ball answers, "Ask again later".

The note says, "Liz, Thank you for being committed to keeping your business safe for all of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Kansas, especially our Trans + POC siblings. I also admire the work you do at the Center of Daring. Thank you for being a strong community leader, + educating folks so we are safe + accepted. I've tossed in a few extra stickers for you, feel free to keep those for yourself of share them with others! Best, izzy lee originals]