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Hello,

My name is Lyon Brave and I am an American citizen who has found my calling. I am making the career transition from foreign Language teacher in China to paramedic in America.



I have performed many jobs in this life working as both an artist, journalist and teacher in Asia. I have worn many hats and evolved as an individual over the years.

When I was younger I worked with special needs children including autistic, retarded, deaf and mute kids. I have since worked with university and primary students in China, Thailand, Cambodia and Bangladesh have expanded my consciousness and my purpouse.


My travels have taught me a thing or two about pain and how to ease suffering in myself and others. It also taught me how to deal with hazardous environments  in a calm manner.

China is known for life shortening pollution and bureaucracy.

Cambodia is known for corrupt police and Killing Fields.

It's not always safe to travel alone.

Traveling alone can be rather problematic, and I learned to deal with life or death situations under pressure.  I learned to deal with crime and assault.

Being exposed to buddhist practices while in Thailand, especially equipped me to understand the nature of life, death and suffering.




I value life to the highest degree, but also understand death is not to be feared, especially after seeing the history the Killing fields in Cambodia. The genocide that happened in the 70's still effects present day and that is what I witnessed traveling, that the wounds of the past have not been healed.  That people alive today have no limbs from a bomb that went off decades ago. History is present.

This understanding will give me great flexibility with dealing with the strenuous situations of being a paramedic, like sometimes being perceived as the angel of death. Sometimes medical professionals will save lives. Other times they will wittiness death.



Teaching abroad in second languages gave me the skills to communicate with people from a variety of backgrounds. It also helped me to be able to interpret body language and facial expressions accurately.

I am a rather effective communicator no matter where I am in this world giving me the flexibility and adaptability I will need to enter a variety of situations from traffic accidents, to shootings, to suicides, handling rape victims and people just dying from old age in random places.



I have always been drawn to medicine and science, but because of my humble beginnings it did not even register to me that I could become a doctor or do anything with medicine, so I am getting a late start. (That's me sucking my thumb)

Growing up most of the kids around me where struggling and dying from medical problems in my foster home, this makes me highly motivated to pursue a medical profession. My adopted brother is paraplegic whose lung is about to collapse.

Growing up he had multiple seizures so the paramedics where frequent visitors ar out house. He was just one of many children with disabilities in my family.



(My foster family)
(me)



In my early years I went to art school and dabbled in music learning about politics, history, the human anatomy empathy, pain and human motivation through a creative lens.

Now that I am older I want to save lives and slowly climb the ladder of becoming a medical professional because I am empathetic, kind, a wonderful communicator and a natural healer able to give someone a second chance at life or ease their pain and suffering.

I used to heal with words. It's time to do it with my hands. 


Becoming an emergency medical technician (EMT) or paramedic can take anywhere from one to three years, depending on a student’s choice of career and educational path. EMT training focuses on life support techniques in first-response situations, including CPR, tourniquet application, and treatment of wounds. Paramedics deliver more advanced procedures and therefore require more extensive education and training

In general, you can expect your paramedic tuition to cost anywhere between $1,000 to $10,000. Know that this is just an estimate, with some programs exceeding $10,000 in cost for education and training and this does not include textbooks, uniforms or the vaccinations you are required to get from the hospitals, transport or the cost of living.

I would like to get started this January 2020, if I can afford it. Consider it my Christmas present.




For those of you who have been following my journey on bebee, you know I have been living outsider of America. Well, I am back with the bare minimum and I have to start my life over. Give me a second chance to pursue a meaningful career in America as a paramedic. #supportme #fundbrave

"When you can’t run, you crawl. And when you can’t crawl, you find someone to carry you."

— Firefly, “The Message” (e12)

1. “Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” —Norman B. Rice
2. “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”—John Wayne
4. “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”—Albert Pike
5. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”—Thomas Edison
6. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”—Leo Buscaglia
7. “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”—Christopher Reeve
8. “EMTs are privileged to play in life’s great game. Too many unlucky people watch the action thunder by, stuck at a desk, or watching it on television at home.”—Kelly Grayson
9. “There is no higher honor than to be given the responsibility to care for another human being.”—Richard K. Schachern
10. “If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For passion will lead you right into your purpose.”—T.D. Jakes
11. “Police officers, firefighters, EMTs—they are all out there every single day—literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them.”—Doreen Cronin
12. “Next to creating a life, the finest thing a man can do is save one.”—Abraham Lincoln