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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. ⚠️

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.

It is in our best interest to learn how to recognize the game we are in, and what it takes to lead with an Infinite Mindset.

Video from ServiceTitan’s North Star Summit

If a leader wants to be given credit when things go right then they have to be willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

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Tom Nash (@djhookie) loves asking people this one question: If the world ended tomorrow, what would you eat?

The answer is never really about the food. Tom finds that it’s mostly about the moment in your life when you felt most free.

What would your answer be?

🎧 Find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts: “Stop Telling Us Everything Happens for a Reason with Anti-Victim Tom Nash”

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

Losing four limbs at 19 sounds like a tragedy. Speaker, author, and anti-victim Tom Nash (@djhookie) says it’s the best thing that ever happened to him.

Not because he’s relentlessly positive, but because he built a system for turning any situation into gold.

Check out our full conversation on A Bit of Optimism wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧

Traditional competition forces us to take on an attitude of winning. Worthy Rivals inspire us to take on an attitude of improvement.

Video from ServiceTitan’s North Star Summit

Anyone can record their pain and post it for the entire world to see. Artists are the ones who take that pain and alchemize it into beauty for others to connect with. As @mikeposner says, “It comes down to intention.”

🎧 Check out our full conversation wherever you get your podcasts at the link in bio.