I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'

Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant.