Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable.

After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing we have in common is that we're sick of feeling afraid. we want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on "What should we fear" and "Who should we blame?" We all want to be brave.

I think a lot of us are looking for the same thing.

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.