In 2016 Lise Brink, her husband and five children were in a car accident in their home country of South Africa. Not only did Lise lose two of her children in the accident, she lost her left leg above the knee, spent 40 days in ICU and endured multiple other operations. 

 

After moving to the US in 2021, Lise founded the non-profit Stepping Into Grace in an effort to give back to the kind South African people who supported her during her time of need.