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Legacy reaches beyond titles or achievements. It’s measured by the value we give to the world.

Video from Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2024 with CRE investor and creator, Lynn King-Tolliver

I tell this story of my friend @mariashriver every chance I get. Asking “Do you have 8 minutes?” when we need help is one of the most powerful practices we’ve learned together.

Video from EZRA Live and Unscripted, November 2024, in conversation with EZRA Coaching CEO Nick Goldberg

If you get an email claiming to be from me or my team asking for money or personal info—it’s a scam. Please report it to your email provider and delete it. ⚠️

Greatness happens when the person with the wild imagination collaborates with the person who knows how to get things done. ✅

Video from ServiceTitan’s North Star Summit

When we ask our friends, "What can I do?" in their time of need, we end up putting more mental strain on them while they're already stretched thin.

Showing up with concrete options permits them to say yes (even if it's simply to sit in the mud with them). 🫂

When we ask our friends, "What can I do?" in their time of need, we end up putting more mental strain on them while they're already stretched thin.

Showing up with concrete options permits them to say yes (even if it's simply to sit in the mud with them). 🫂

When we ask our friends, "What can I do?" in their time of need, we end up putting more mental strain on them while they're already stretched thin.

Showing up with concrete options permits them to say yes (even if it's simply to sit in the mud with them). 🫂

When we ask our friends, "What can I do?" in their time of need, we end up putting more mental strain on them while they're already stretched thin.

Showing up with concrete options permits them to say yes (even if it's simply to sit in the mud with them). 🫂

When we ask our friends, "What can I do?" in their time of need, we end up putting more mental strain on them while they're already stretched thin.

Showing up with concrete options permits them to say yes (even if it's simply to sit in the mud with them). 🫂

When we ask our friends, "What can I do?" in their time of need, we end up putting more mental strain on them while they're already stretched thin.

Showing up with concrete options permits them to say yes (even if it's simply to sit in the mud with them). 🫂

This Memorial Day, I’m reminded of the honor I have had to work with and befriend some truly remarkable men and women in uniform throughout my career.

Thank you to the members of the armed forces and to their families who paid the highest price to serve our country. May we continue to do the work to build a more perfect nation so that their sacrifices were not in vain.

Swipe for more optimism. 💡

Swipe for more optimism. 💡

Swipe for more optimism. 💡

We are not present until others say we are.

When a friend says, "Thank you for listening."
"I feel heard."
"I feel understood."
That's when we know we've been present.

Video from Unforgettable Summer Night 2025 with Los Angeles-based environmental non-profit, TreePeople

For a lot of us, socializing comes with a side of anxiety...and the advice we get often isn’t helpful.

@vvanedwards is a social skills expert who teaches her students a simple starting point: find the moments in conversation where you already feel good, and play into those strengths.

Social confidence is then a byproduct of creating safe conditions to build those muscles.

🎧Check out our full conversation wherever you get your podcasts: “How to Stop Being Socially Awkward (According to Science) with Behavioral Scientist Vanessa Van Edwards”

Comment “collisions” and we’ll DM you the full episode.

We used to accidentally get good at being human. Now? We don’t have to talk to anyone… and it’s showing.

Vanessa Van Edwards (@vvanedwards) is a behavioral researcher, founder of Science of People, bestselling author, and social skills expert. She says the casual collisions that used to organically build our social muscles have quietly disappeared — replaced by apps, AI, and screens that do the hard parts for us.

She believes we are living in the most critical moment in history to start building these skills on purpose. Because if we don’t start now, we never will.

Are you creating casual collisions in your life?

🎧 Listen to the full episode of A Bit of Optimism wherever you get your podcasts.