“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.

“I try to keep in mind that another’s intentions are not any less pure than my own.”

“Most organizations are still using some form of the old hierarchical structure that they had in the 60s and 70s.”

“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.”

"In order to get to the best solution, people have to challenge you."

“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.”

“Most business leaders are undervaluing the intangibles of their business.”

“True leadership means you’re in the game. People don’t see you as someone that won’t do the same thing that they do.”

“If there is a purpose to this life, I would say it’s to evolve ourselves....”

“The future pulls us out of the past, and pulls toward the dream, and what’s possible.”

“I would encourage people to think about this concept of playgrounds and how they can get up every day and turn a practice into a habit into a system that allows them to have fun in their lives.”