Authenticity

Think of negativity as noise. Believe in yourself and what you're doing. Remember: if the most unique ideas were obvious to everyone, there wouldn't be entrepreneurs.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Most adults are pretending. Status, intelligence, beauty, wealth, achievement. The older you get, the more you see people pretending in little ways all the time.

It was actually very liberating. All of it helped teach me who I was by teaching me who I wasn't.

On the air I am capable of asking anybody anything. But take away the mic and I can become uncomfortable, self-conscious, and insecure.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

Anyone who tells you they are doing it all perfectly is a liar.

We don't always see the hard truths, and once we see them, we don't always have the courage to speak out. The world was not equal then, and it is not equal now.

The first time I spoke out about what it was like to be a woman in the workforce was less than five years ago. That means that for eighteen years, from where you sit to where I stand, my silence implied that everything was OK. You can do better than I did.

You may be shy. You may be tentative. And even, at times, you may be fragile. But you have to protect your own voice, your creative spirit, no matter what it costs.

You can be as insecure as you want in your life, but just promise me you'll leave that insecurity out of your work. Just know, you're good enough.

When you get a regular job, you start acting like regular people. And if you graduate from Emerson, you are not a regular person.