“I define empathy as the ability to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes and to understand and connect with what they are feeling - to feel what they’re feeling. You first have to understand the world as they see it through their eyes.”

Good listeners listen to what people say, and great listeners notice what people don’t say. When you know the neuroscience of listening, you realize that people can think up to nine times faster than they can speak. So the first thing they say is probably between ten and fourteen percent of what they are thinking.

“Having an ecosystem of people who actually can talk to you, help you, and support you may be the most important thing, not only for your professional and personal success, but for your life.”

“Gratitude connects people very quickly, easily and authentically.”

“Purpose is a fusion between the pursuance of our curiosities, or our passions, and the living of the exploration of those things at the same time. You really can’t intellectualize purpose. You actually have to feel and behave your way in and through it.”

“As you learn to evaluate a situation from the standpoint of the situation, you begin to discover new capacities in yourself that you previously never realized.”

“I think there’s that authenticity of integrating all dimensions of our life experience and being able to commit to truly being that authentic whole person in all moments.”

"I think the lesson is...that there is always a personal and a human side to business."

"Learning to understand your team members deeply is a game-changer."

“You cannot succeed without failure; that’s a given. Let’s be honest, unless you’ve never tried entrepreneurship then you know that to succeed you have to do a lot of trial and error. And, if you’re an entrepreneur, the bigger and the crazier your goal, and the vision, and the dream is, the more you have to be outside your comfort zone.”

“The emotionally healthy person lives in the now. So, we don’t have to wait until some other time. We don’t have to wait until we’re retired. We don’t have to wait until something else happens. We don’t have to live a life of contingency.”

“You win or you learn and if you’re always winning you’re not really learning.”