Life doesn’t get easier because we want it to. “That’s why we have to rise to the demands that life presents to us,” said John Beede, an Everest climber, global adventurer, entrepreneur, author, and humanitarian.

Leadership is an extremely personal journey, both personally and professionally. For Jessie Funk, the most recent guest speaker at SYLP, individual leadership and personal growth mean setting boundaries to form healthy relationships.

It’s not easy to get over 300 high school students excited to stand up to sing and dance on a Wednesday morning, but that is exactly what happened when speaker Jessie Funk took the stage at the Siegfried Youth Leadership Program (SYLP) on February 27.