Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have.

When we spend our lives waiting until we're perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable, we squander our precious time, and we turn our backs on our gifts, those unique contributions that only we can make.

We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.