Unused creativity is not benign.

Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes."

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.