There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

It’s no longer a question of can I do it. It’s a question of: Do I want to do it?

If we own the story then we can write the ending.

There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.