05:13 The beauty of humor and storytelling: Bringing depth and fun together. Not trivializing people's traumas and struggle but subverts the inner critic and the ego and go around the fears to be more open and receptive to actually experience transformation.

 

06:26 The Shift: Without the tools, understanding, language, and model of what it looks like to navigate these heavy and uncomfortable experiences, you will default to sadness and despair. Sometimes we let the world dump into us and forget who we are.

 

10:13 A weight-loss journey: There's no place you'd get where you're done with personal growth. It's a constant work.

 

14:14 If I understand the way the system works, I can use my thoughts more effectively.

 

16:12 You don't have to believe everything you think. You don't have to think about everything you think about. They are literally all they are. Crush your negative thoughts with a snowglobe.

 

20:27 Things you can do real-time as you wait to settle that snowglobe: breathwork, meditation, progressive muscle tension techniques—everything that gets into your body. AND a trigger to remind how the system works. Allow your thoughts and feelings to be without being a nuisance. 

 

24:56 To leave everybody I meet with at least 5% more joy than I found them: It doesn't matter what the noun or title is as long as I can bring the fundamental element of joy activation in what I do.

 

29:39 You're seeing me in my zone of genius—the best version of me—but there are plenty of moments that you'll not see this version of me because the entirety of the human experience is everything. You can't numb the piece that feels negatively because that will numb also the piece that you're seeing now.