“You shouldn’t strive to be a computer, you should strive to be your best; the notion that anyone’s best isn’t enough is a shame because that is literally all we can do”
"Here’s what my capacity is, here are all the demands that are going on, help me figure out how we can adjust this; having good healthy conversations around changing the things that aren’t working for you at work is what Red Cape Rescue is about."
As a woman, as you’re trying to work on your emotional intelligence, how do you manage that? How do you check yourself and ask, what is a trigger point, a topic or a person, that’s triggering me to make these emotions come up?
“Whatever is left over is what we leave for ourselves, so it’s shifting that perspective to start investing that time in yourself so that you can discover who you are”
“With Sated Ventures I was able to take the love of the expedition and make food the connection because food will be that one piece that we all have in common, we may not speak the same language or have the same customs, but we all want to be... sated.”
"Digital nomad life, even created in your home town, offers much to explore in the areas in which people live. How can doing new things, in your life and getting out of your comfort zone, actually lead to more internal comfort and learning?"
“It’s very gratifying to see that these books are helping to bridge the literacy gap and that the team is able to get books into the hands of children who don’t have any; they want to read, to experience being a kid, seeing that it’s really theirs, there’s nothing that can replace that.”
"At some point you cannot physically do everything that is on your list, I had to delegate to trustworthy individuals because I couldn’t possibly do every single task myself; there just aren’t enough hours in the day"
"It’s good to take a pause and really think about what is going on for me, how do I want it to be, why is it not going quite how I would want it to be, why am I having these feelings about this job that maybe in the past it was all kind of fine, but now has all these different things going on; star…
"Entertainment is a place where you can make other people feel and enjoy stuff when you’re doing it, you can make people laugh, cry, and make people feel the same emotions while in character, while still having fun"
“Everybody has that filter, ‘I work, you don’t, I have kids you don’t’ whatever it is, it’s important that we allow those moments to let people in; but it’s hard and you have to be vulnerable and put yourself out there but when it works and clicks you think, yes, this is how it’s supposed to be”
“I want to make sure that the people that I place and make matches for are going to be successful and are going to be happy and that it works for all involved”
“I avoid negative comments about age because it just brings you down; you need to be positive when starting your own business, you need mojo and momentum; the negativity stuff, I chose to not play into it and ignore it”
“My goal in any interview or in any conversation is to walk that person along the path with me, I never want to be so far ahead that it causes confusion”
“I never wanted another woman to feel alone, or to feel shame about her body or to go through experiences alone in the way I went through experiences; if I could just touch a few women’s lives, to me it was all worth it, I had to tell my story.”
"The most valuable lesson I’ve learned as a journalist is that everybody is interesting if you ask the right questions. If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you” - Kate Murphy
