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

Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.

But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if I would have shown up?

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

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

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.

When we're defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable.