STAND Beautiful - Media and Appearances

Last year the winners from our campaign with (RED), Chloe and Dane, met Bono backstage. This incredible experience turned out to have more meaning than we could have ever imagined. Check out our first ever documentary, featuring Chloe's story and the transformative experience she had with one of her heroes. Director: Erin Li Producers: Aaron Godfred, Brent Pritchett Producer: Erin Li Executive Producers: Matt Pohlson, Ryan Cummins Cinematographer: Lucas Lee Graham Editor: Susumu Kimura Additional Editing: Cody Holland Production Coordinator: Eric Jaffe Post Production Coordinator: Robbie Stern Colorist: Brennan Barsell Sound Mixer: Alison Ho Subscribe to our social channels for the latest updates and winner announcements! YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/omaze Twitter: https://twitter.com/omaze Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/omaze About Omaze: Founded by Matt Pohlson and Ryan Cummins, Omaze is an online cause marketplace that is revolutionizing the philanthropic space by giving people the chance to win once-in-a-lifetime experiences that also support social missions. Omaze offers its community of donors transformative experiences, remarkable causes and compelling content. For more information, please visit omaze.com.

Gasia, Mike and Allie talk to 18-year-old Chloe Howard of Los Gatos who wrote a book about bullying after enduring it during her freshman year of high school.

On this episode of Walk in Faith, host Craig Syracusa sits down with Chloe Howard, a young girl with a story to inspire people of all ages. When Chloe Howard was born with a club foot, doctors said she would never walk or have a normal life. By the time she was 14 years old, she had endured 5 major operations and years of physical therapy as well as assault in high school, when her deformed foot was forcibly displayed to her classmates. Chloe battled insecurity and depression as well her physical challenges, but she was triumphant because of her strength, her courage, and her faith. Tune in to hear Chloe's story and the moments of grace that helped her become the beautiful young woman she is today.

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17 years ago... I was born with a severe clubfoot, which means that my foot was upside down and backwards. I've had to have many surgeries, have casts & braces and physical therapy... and it's been really hard. I've been in a lot of pain, But I've always believed that God made me special... that he LOVES me very much, and that he has a perfect plan for me. My parents always told me that my clubfoot was kind of like my superpower... and I believed that... that my clubfoot was something secret and unique. Something special about me that no one else had... it was MY superpower and I loved it... But when I was a freshman in high school everything changed in a matter of minutes... I was called over to another lunch table and they told me to take off my shoes... I was assaulted on my high school campus because of my clubfoot... I was restrained and my sock and shoe were ripped off and without my consent my deformed foot was shown to a group of people... and in that moment 14 years of self-acceptance vanished... After that I became ashamed of my foot... ashamed of the part of me I had always been told made me special... it might sound dramatic but I feel like my heart would be like shut down like... I became really closed off... I started what I called my 'sweatshirt phase' because I wore these massive sweatshirts in school every day. I already was missing seven toenails... I already couldn't get pedicures with my mom or wear high heels to my eighth grade graduation... I already had to show the school a wheelchair and deal with people's stares... I already had to do all this. I felt like God had left me completely alone... I felt betrayed... by God and by this Christian community almost because I got a lot of the, "Oh well like God will like bring you through it! Oh, like I know it's hard now but God will bring good out of this like it's all in God's plan." ...and sure like I believe that now... but I did not want to hear that! I felt incredibly alone... In my deepest darkest moments of depression and anger and confusion... I found myself writing the word 'beautiful' over one of the scars on my clubfoot... and I don't know when I started or why... but it kind of just became this thing that I did every day. But as time went on I slowly began to heal I had an incredible interaction with one of the heroes in my life and he inspired me to start using my words... to start speaking about what had happened to me... to USE my voice... and so I did. Suddenly I had purpose again... and as I opened up the Bible I found purpose in Jeremiah 1:5 which says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nation's." I recently got the word BEAUTIFUL tattooed over my clubfoot and now every single time I look down at that little twisted foot... all I see is beauty... all I see is God's purpose... God's plan. God's intentionality and God's overwhelming love... God calls ME beautiful. and I can accept that... I'm excited to see what God will do in my life, and yeah, I can't see the future and yeah, sometimes trusting God's plan for me is really scary... but I am excited to see what he'll do, whatever it is... I'm Chloe... this is my story... and I am Wonderfully Made.

It is our goal to empower our children to feel unique and special. But sometimes, as they get older, their peers, teachers, or circumstances can make them feel like they are not enough. Chloe Howard was born with a clubfoot and other health issues. She believed her uniqueness gave her secret superpowers until she was assaulted by bullies during her freshmen year in high school. Chloe will share how this event, although traumatic, has fueled her passion and led to her life’s purpose… to “Stand Beautiful.” ** Want some FREE GIFTS? Then please subscribe to www.WhenYouNeedaFriend.com! Once you subscribe, I will send you my “90 Day Challenge to Self Love” eBook and The Lillian McDermott Radio Show will be automatically send to your smart phones or tablet! Let’s grow together! **

hi I'm Chloe Howard I'm a sophomore at Los Gatos High School.. This last year has been crazy and exciting and intense and frightening and overwhelming and depressing... I was born with a clubfoot which is where my foot was upside down and backwards, which causes problems if you want to walk or do anything like that. My first surgery was when I was six months old and then another at three; fourth grade. eighth grade, and then last year. I always felt comfortable with my foot. I was never really embarrassed of it. My parents really drilled it into me that my foot was special and that's what made me special, and God shaped my foot the way he did for a reason. I've been bullied as a kid a little bit because along with the clubfoot I also only had three toenails... which not very many kids see every day. But last year, my freshman year in high school, I was called over by a group of girls that I knew... and they said, "hey Chloe, take off your shoe!" It's like, "What?!?" and I said, "You know, I'm good I'm going to leave my shoes on." The girl need kneeled on the ground and tried to take my shoe and sock off. I was kinduv struggling, because she was pretty strong... and so another girl came around the table and said, "Fine I'll help."and she went behind me and grasped me with her arms and lifted me up off of the ground... so the other girl could take off my shoe and sock and show everyone my deformed foot... and that was REALLY hard... I was shocked and scared. I felt ashamed of the part of me that I've always been told made me special. I was just in a really fragile place... I constantly felt tears behind my eyes. I was scared that they would retaliate because I told on them...and even like affected how I dress like I was wanted to hide myself because I was ashamed of shamed of my foot. I started wearing like big sweatshirts. I just was not comfortable with who I was which what was so different than how I usually felt about myself... that happened in November (2014) and during Christmas break my parents gave me the option of transferring... I chose to stay. I'm almost glad that I stayed because I learned a lot about myself and kind of started to make friends... took off the sweatshirts... But also during Christmas, my dad got a Skype call telling him that he won a chance to meet Bono... He chose to bring me his daughter, a diehard U2 fan... and he walked in and all his rocks star-ness... and he was wearing all leather and had pink shades on... hair was all cool. I introduced myself to Bono, and I told him this past year I was assaulted for a foot deformity I was born with... He stopped me and he said, "What happened to you was an injustice." and we had this conversation about injustice and bullying he said that when I use my voice, and when my words are right and true, that it's like a punch... NOT a physical punch, but a verbal punch my voice is then supported by the voices of many... and he said, "Well, in my family we have a prayer, and whether we say it in the kitchen, or in the pub... it's that we are available for work... And when we make ourselves available for work, and we're open to God to work through us in in our lives, then good things generally happen..." In that moment I kind of made myself a promise that I would work on opening myself to God, see what happened and that was really important to me in people they go through things... really hard things... and they're told that something great will come out of it that God will turn it into something beautiful, But not a lot of people actually see that... I'm pretty lucky. My good thing having pretty soon, and it seems like good things are continuing to happen. I mean yeah bad things still happen. I can stub my toe or I can, I'm kind of having friend troubles right now... but... I now can see light at the end of the tunnel again. I have hope again that God will pull through because I've seen him pull through... And even though sometimes I've been lying in bed at night, I still feel like I'm talking to the wall when I pray... but I do know that he's there... and he supported me through all this... Because I can see how he's brought some pretty awesome stuff out of this... @istandbeautiful standbeautiful.me