Honoring and Celebrating Wendy Chioji

Our friend, colleague and inspiration Wendy Chioji died on Oct. 7, 2019, following a lengthy battle against cancer. She was 57 years old. A Celebration of Life was held in her adopted hometown of Park City, Utah, in early November and featured beautiful speeches from those closest to Wendy. At the event, Growing Bolder Founder/CEO Marc Middleton, who was friends with Wendy for more than 30 years, shared this tribute to Wendy during his remarks. “Wendy’s words and her actions were a constant reminder of the beauty of life, the value of time and the importance of friendship. If we can not only remember those lessons but actually live them — then Wendy continues to live on through us,” Middleton says.