In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.

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

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

I've come to this belief that, if you show me a woman who can sit with a man in real vulnerability, in deep fear, and be with him in it, I will show you a woman who, A, has done her work and, B, does not derive her power from that man. And if you show me a man who can sit with a woman in deep struggle and vulnerability and not try to fix it, but just hear her and be with her and hold space for it, I'll show you a guy who's done his work and a man who doesn't derive his power from controlling and fixing everything.

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.