Careers Episodes

“There's a difference between breathing and living. Everybody will breathe, but not everybody will live. Everybody will exist, but not everybody will live.” – Dr. Kevin Foreman

“The body will not allow you to feel something, even if it's positive, if it doesn't feel safe. It's a pure biological, instinctive response. It’s the body's job to keep you safe, and if something feels like a threat, it's going to divert your behavior, and we're going to do something to sabotage i…

“Everything that's difficult that happens in our lives, especially in relationships, is showing us to ourselves. It's showing us where we have some healing to do or something to work out or fear to overcome.” – Thais Gibson

“Don't make your work your identity.” – Jacob Karnes

“Even if it doesn't mean anything to you, it means something to the person that you're writing for, and it means something to the person who's reading the story.” – Dr. Rhonda M. Lawson

“It just takes a different mindset and a different approach and a different way of saying yes to yourself…I learned to say yes to myself and say, give it a chance. See what happens.” – Heike Yates

“When we don't do the inner work as leaders, then we tend to lead from a place of fear and control and ego, as opposed to a place of compassion and love and shared purpose.” – Jane Marie Chen

“If you have a very empty but very conscious mind…then anything can happen in that mind.” – Stan Lai, PhD.

“One of the really most valuable things you learn is that people are capable of a lot more than they often think they are.” – Commander William C. Spears

“Living is a progressive art.” – Dr. Candy Campbell

“When you hit rock bottom, and you really hit rock bottom, you look around and you kind of take account and you go, all right, why am I here? How do I get out of here? When you're down there and you're alone, it leaves an impression. And so, when I got myself out of it, I just decided I never wante…

"Don't let fear rule your life, let possibility and curiosity drive you." – Kathryn Henry

“Life is short, and I spent 11 years of my life doing something that I found interesting, like software development and project management. And this is all wonderful and interesting, but there is an opportunity cost to that. These are 11 years that I didn't write my books, and I don't want that to …

“I don't know if it's time, but what I do know is I know where the road to nowhere goes, and it goes to nowhere. And I want to take the road to somewhere. Somewhere has road signs like, you can do this, you accomplish this, you're going to feel good about yourself.” – Mike Burkhard

“If you don't care about that reader, if that's not the main focus, the rest doesn't matter.” – Troy Horne

“We are transformed more through our trials than our triumphs.” – Wendy Gunn

"Keep having conversations that drive people to more and better." – Bridget Hom

“You face conflict every single day of your life. There's conflict that you love and conflict that you're not so enamored of, and the conflict that you love, you have no problem with.” – Dana Lynn Bernstein

“When you're in corporate, even if you have a good internal network, cultivate that external network of experts or referral partners, because sometimes you might find yourself on the outside, and that's the worst time to try to find people that you can trust.” – Deborah Coviello

“You don't have to suffer because others are suffering.” – Alison Lea Sher

“Don't be afraid to set yourself up for success.” – Carla D. Bass

“Leadership is about the energy that we bring. Are we bringing a negative, toxic energy? Are we bringing an exhausted, burned out energy, a victim energy? Or are we bringing positivity and courage and empowerment?” – Alison C. Jones

“Sometimes our nightmares are other people's dreams.” – Dwayne Morton

“When you really believe in what you're doing, you know how much of a difference that makes.” – Dr. Josh McConkey