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And I would say massively in flux.

And I think part of the inspiration for writing the book was really recognizing that over the last five years, we have all gone through

a pretty profound and unprecedented experience on a global scale.

And we are different.

We are not the same.

And there is a way in which I think all of us are trying to really discern what is the relationship I wanna have with my work?

What is the way I wanna work?

And as we are sort of bumping up against all of the converging aspects of our culture with technology, with organizational restructuring, like all of the things that are happening,

Within our corporate institutions, as well as within our mom and pop shops for our entrepreneurs out there, I think this question is front and center.

Like, you know, where am I and where do I want to be when it comes to my work and the way that I work?

So this is the book that I say is written for people who know they are not going back, but they're still kind of trying to figure out how to go forward, right?

And many people are pivoting and transitioning and realigning and restructuring and reorganizing.

And there are some really fundamental shifts that we've gone through that are influencing the way in which we're starting to think about how we now cultivate these new terms and conditions for how we're going to come into the workplace.

I think that's the big fundamental question because joy is now more of a priority than it's ever been.

In other words, if we sort of look at what's different between, I think, even pre-pandemic versus post-pandemic, we are recognizing that money isn't everything.

And this doesn't mean that money isn't important, but I think that there's a way in which our culture is.

has often dictated.

Money has also been the number one driver of dictating the way that we work.

It's not anymore in terms of being the number one.

There are other considerations now that are also in here.

One of them is our health and well-being.

We all know everything from understanding that many of us are still living with long COVID to understanding that there has been a

universal way in which we are starting to talk more squarely about mental health and wellbeing and anxiety.

You know, this conversation of our wellbeing is now more front and center, even if for some of us, that's just getting more exercise.

The other thing that's front and center is our happiness.

Joy, right?

Here we go.

Back to that word.

Our relationship with the quality of our day-to-day is more important and imperative to us now than ever before.

And that's whether you felt like you were able to find your groove during the pandemic because you had the opportunity to shelter in place or whether it is that you didn't.

Like, in other words, the wheels fell off and you had to kind of reel it back in because of burnout or fatigue or, you know, or trauma.

in many cases.

And so happiness matters.

Quality of our day-to-day matters.

Health and wellbeing matter.

Purpose and meaning matter.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, my joke is that I kind of quit before the pandemic in the sense of, you know, my father passed away in late 2016.

And, you know, my sister and I had cared for him for the last 21 years of his life.

So it was a really defining moment for me and for us.

And my response to avoiding the grief of that was to plunge myself into work.

Yeah.

And I just kept piling it on and piling it on and piling it on.

And it got to a point where literally I just could not get off the couch.

And I was forced to really look at what was it that had me believe that I could not stop?

What was it that had me believe that I could not slow down?

What was it that had me believe that my humanity could

was not a priority.

And that was everything from whether I ate or I slept or all of the sort of basic functional things that we need to do in order to even remotely show up powerfully for the things that are commanding and demanding our attention in the day to day.

And as I began, thank God, through the health of a therapist and a coach, as I began to unravel and really start to understand what was driving me, I was kind of floored to discover all of the narratives that I had been carrying unconsciously about why I had to show up and push and prove and

overachieve, and you know, all of the things, at least.

Right, right.

And to reckon where those messages came from and the degree to which I had so deeply ingrained and buried those messages such that I didn't even realize that that's what I was doing.

Yeah, I think for me, success had often been rooted in achievement, how much you could get done, how much you could get accomplished, how much you could amass in terms of praise or accolades or recognition or support.

And there had been a real narrative for me in terms of my father's history and coming through two decades of Jim Crow segregation that

That, you know, as a black man in America, there was a particular narrative about the degree to which people would honor, respect, appreciate or see you for your efforts.

And that was in there.

And I didn't necessarily realize that was in there.

You know, my mother, you know.

Southern Baptist perfectionist, and eyes dotted, T's crossed, speaking the King's English, pleated skirts, all of those things pressed to within an inch of your life.

Wow.

Right?

That was in there.

And so my need to start to reckon with and reconcile with

you know, all of the things that I had inherited about what success meant.

And then certainly being in external professional environments where somebody else is also in an institutional or an organizational culture, setting the standard and in some cases having a standard model to us, right?

In terms of what it looks like, all of those things were in there.

And none of it had anything to do with whether or not I felt good about myself.

None of it had anything to do with whether or not I felt some sense of safety or security or grounding.

None of it had anything to do with whether or not I felt any kind of sense of belonging.

And none of it had anything to do with whether or not I felt like I was operating or living or working in alignment with my values.

And then no days off, right?

None of it had anything to do with any days off.

And so all of that had to come back to the studs, right?

And really in wrestling my work ethic to the ground, I had to really kind of go like, what is success for me?

And to what degree do I get to be a part or my happiness or my peace of mind or

My health and well-being, physical, mental, emotional health and well-being, to what degree did those get to be a part of the equation when I consider this new definition?

I think one of the things that often shows up for us is we don't often feel connected to whatever we're achieving.

So even if we achieve it, you know, and I think about this in the context of imposter syndrome and how much we've talked about imposter syndrome.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But in this context of, you know, being connected to ourselves, do we recognize the person who's showing up every day?

And I know that for me, my representative was way alive and kicking.

You know, like, I mean, the fake smile, the fine, fine, fine.

Everything's fine.

You know, when it was all falling apart.

And I think the degree to which I had disconnected from my true feelings or the degree to which I disconnected.

for my authentic expression was one of the blaring indicators in that nothing was sort of getting in, if that makes sense.

It was a sort of numbness, right?

No matter what was going on, whether it was great or whether it was horrible, in some way I had kind of disconnected and checked out.

Another way, and this shows up a lot for people, is exhaustion.

I relate.

Yeah, I think the first thing you got to do is get clear about what it is that you really want.

And as much as it sounds like it's an easy question, at least I know for me, when I was in that period in 2017, I had to ask myself that question for a period of months and like really keep listening for like, wow, what is it that I want?

And I say that because I find even now as I talk with leaders and

often what we want is filtered through what we think is acceptable, what we think is respectable, what we think is affordable, if we think about it from the context of our economic stability.

And so we're often filtering and it takes time and it takes courage and it takes space sometimes to really get to the heart and the truth of what it is that you really want.

But that's the beginning question because once you can ask and begin to

give yourself the permission to answer, you may be shocked at what you find.

What you want may be not as complicated or difficult or as overwhelming or grandiose as what you may be reaching for.

Yeah.

In the phases of what I've seen us navigate through, particularly in the context of our relationship to work, when we're in the beginning stage of negotiation, I like to call it AKA navigation, we're kind of coming to the table on somebody else's terms.

And we're really trying to sort through how we can succeed or figure out how we can advance within the context of someone else's standard.

And how do we do it with the least amount of risk?

Right.

And these are the places where we're doing a lot of trading, you know, and some trades are small and some trades are bigger, you know, whether it's a trading of our time or energy or whether it's a trading of the way we part our hair or the way we pronounce our name.

I mean, you know, we could go on and on and on.

So these trades, we're making them all the time.

And so the negotiation stage is the navigation.

The resignation stage is where we sort of either give up

Like this is the way it is.

Or we say peace out, no more.

And I think that that's the peace out side is sort of the stage of awakening.

And then the renegotiation stage is where we start to really consider what is important to us, what is necessary for us as we start to look at what it is that we really want and what it is that really matters.

And we start to look at the contribution that we really want to make to our families, to ourselves, to our communities, to the organizations and infrastructures that we contribute to on a day-to-day.

Yeah, so in the renegotiation process, there are three stages that I say we move through.

The first is reclamation, right, and reclaiming.

And that has everything to do with the stories.

What are the stories that I've inherited?

What are the stories that I've adopted or created myself?

To what degree do they empower me to show up in the way that I want to show up?

To what degree do they support my happiness, my well-being, my thriving?

And we have the opportunity to really determine which ones we want to continue to carry forward and which ones we might want to upgrade or refresh.

The second aspect of renegotiation is realigning.

And this is a really important one because this is rooted in our authenticity, which is actually a function of our energy.

And so when we find that we are depleted, there's often some way in which we are out of alignment with ourselves.

And out of integrity with ourselves.

And I say this with love and compassion, right?

There are places where we're saying yes, where we know we really need to be saying no.

There are things that we are tolerating in our environment that are really beyond or have become intolerable.

And there are places where we are not in our truth or we're not speaking our truth.

Okay.

And, you know, there can be lots of reasons and justifications for that.

So there's a reckoning with you and you that kind of happens in the realignment process.

And it is about coming back to your values.

It is about coming back to your authentic self.

And it is about coming back to what really matters to you.

The third step is reimagination, which is really like once we get clear, you know, once we've kind of cleared the deck, we've realigned with our values, we've understood what's important.

Now we get to ask ourselves, you know, if we had our way, what would it look like?

You know, the who, what, when, where, how and why of how we'd like to be showing up, particularly as we think about the contribution that we most want to be making when it comes to our work and the way that we work.

I would say definitely there are going to be places where you're going to want support.

And whether that is a therapist, whether that is a coach, whether that just even is a community, I find that this work is really powerful because

when you're doing it in partnership and collaboration with others, whether that are close professional friends or colleagues.

There's something very powerful about being witnessed as you share your conversations and feeling the sense of not aloneness.

And I think that's one of the biggest things that I want to underscore for people who might be inclined to pick up the book, given where they are right now in their life and their work, is that you are so not alone.

In the book, I talk to everything from essential workers who were working during the heart of the pandemic to multinational CEOs.

And I can tell you that the understandings, the places that they came to, the ways in which they came to their own renegotiation processes, interestingly, were not that different, even though their contexts would seem worlds apart.

There's something about the humanizing nature of what we experienced that had us all asking ourselves the same kinds of questions and had us all looking at the same kinds of opportunities and challenges as we start to consider these new terms.

So doing it with support is wonderful and certainly the way to go.

Wounded ambition really comes from adopting and aligning with standards and terms and conditions that have nothing to do with what you want and have nothing to do even sometimes with who you are.

And many of us have had experiences in various contexts where we've done things to fit in that we've regretted or where we've done things to fit in that we thought were going to benefit us in the long term.

In other words, we made the short term sacrifice.

hoping for the long-term gain that ultimately never arrived.

And so this internal reckoning becomes really important because when we understand that sometimes the playbooks that we've been handed and what we've been taught about what's necessary in order to succeed, not only in what we want, right, in terms of having that dictated to us, but also how we go about achieving what we want,

We can find that unfortunately, there's a lot of harm that takes place in that process.

Harm we do to ourselves, harm we do to others intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

And part of being able to become intentional and become aware and become true about what's important to us is where we begin to gain our sense of self back, where we begin to gain a sense of agency back, where we begin to gain our sense of power back.

It's also where we begin to expand our capacity to be able to contribute in ways that move the needle on the things that we feel most passionate about.

So what is it to show up in organizations excited, turned on, really ready to get to the work at hand?

passionate about wanting to move the ball forward and bringing what you bring.

And could that be, could we see that as actually the possibility for the status quo instead of what it is that we're experiencing now?

It takes courage.

To confront what we've been given.

And I talk about this a lot in the book because for me, my history would be chattel slavery.

In terms of exactly the way in which my ancestors and elders came to this country.

And so that's a lot of pressure.

And even it's difficult, at least because sometimes that pressure is applied by people who love us.

Often it's applied by people who love us, who want us to succeed and they need us to be tough and they need us to be resilient and they need us to be all these things because of the nature of the world that they've inhabited and had to navigate in order to survive and thrive.

And so getting out of survival and what does it require?

is not only a mental conversation, it is an emotional, it is a physiological conversation.

And so we do have to come to the place of what are the ways in which we're nourishing ourselves in terms of self-love and self-care that enable us to move our nervous systems out of fight, flight, and fawn

And into grounding and peace and centering and clarity.

And that inevitably requires slowing down.

So when I say courage, having the courage to slow down, and dare I say in some cases having the courage to stop,

is one of the first steps in being able to start to unhook.

Because often it isn't until we can slow down and stop that we can actually even see what's operating.

Yeah, I think the first thing is to even begin to let in to whatever degree that you can that it is possible.

Because it's exactly what you're saying.

So much of what we get shown is that it isn't.

And so the conversation of get practical, get pragmatic, right?

Let's get real has to do with the depth of our resignation and our cynicism about what's possible.

Right.

Right.

And so part of it is like the first step is we got to get with us and us.

and like look in the mirror and have a really honest conversation with yourself about like, what do you want to be possible?

And what are you willing to even like 1% believe could be possible?

And how do you begin to start to walk towards what you think could be possible?

The fear of slowing down,

is also prevalent because we're afraid that if we slow down, we have to confront how much we are afraid or how much we are concerned about our survival.

But the truth of the matter is, unfortunately, until we can start to move out of survival, it is hard to believe or open up the idea that more things are possible.

So often I even tell people, just start by walking.

Start by just physiologically moving your body out of a place of fear and terror into a place of calm, right?

We talk about mindfulness.

We talk about meditation, yoga, time in nature, engaging in sports, right?

My husband is crazy about pickleball, right?

So whatever those day-to-day activities are that get you out of your head.

Yeah.

into your body may be the beginnings of supporting this opportunity to start to really calm down and ground.

And then baby steps.

So some of it may be starting with a journal activity where you're just asking yourself in the morning, today, what is one thing I could do to bring more joy to my day?

Maybe it's just 15 minutes with your kids, throwing the ball back and forth in the driveway.

Maybe it's taking a real lunch today, like where you actually get up from your desk.

You know what I mean?

Start with the very, very simple things.

Because the more that you can begin to nourish yourself and nurture yourself, the more space and room you'll begin to have to really imagine new possibilities.

I love that.

The challenge we face, and often what has people, I think, hold on so tight, Elise, is we believe...

that if we do this, work is going to suffer.

We believe that productivity is going to suffer.

Now, we've got a ton of science out there that proves otherwise.

In other words, if you look at all the reports, if you look at the data, if you look at the GDP, in terms of there's been all kinds of studies that people who have a shorter work week

actually achieve more.

Productivity is actually higher if you're not dragging yourself across the finish line.

And so it is about the ingrained thinking and the opportunity to just begin to start to challenge some of those ideas that are rooted in the fact that we have to do it this way or no way at all.

Mm-hmm.

So the first thing I'm going to say is once you have that clarity, you want to be starting to surround yourself with people who share those aspirations, who share those visions.

So definitely looking for opportunities to gain new knowledge, looking for opportunities to be in dialogue and whether that's in an online community or a physical community.

I think the opportunity to start to share becomes really important.

But I also want to say who you share with becomes important.

And I'll say a little bit more about what I mean.

When we have a new idea or we have a dream or we have something that we aspire to, we will often find the most cynical person in our life to go and run it by.

Yeah.

Right.

And I'm just going to say, like, you know, I think about this in the analogy of our baby.

Like, right.

Like, would you let anybody hold your newborn baby?

You know, and we want to consider that, that when we're birthing new ideas or when we're charting new paths, that it is really important that we get water and sunlight.

Right.

And that we surround ourselves with people who are going to encourage us, even if they don't understand exactly what we're doing.

If they're willing to say, I believe in you.

And if you are passionate about it, go for it.

Like that goes a really long way.

Yeah, I think it's the opportunity to let go of this belief that a loss for one is a gain for another.

This is the zero sum mentality that unfortunately we still are in many ways navigating.

And so part of our opportunity is really to start to consider like what are the experiences that we've had in our lives of enough?

You know, one of the things I share in the book is a story about traveling to Africa on a creative project many, many years ago.

And we were working in a township outside of Nairobi, a really, really rough and difficult region and area.

And we were, you know, probably 20 artists and musicians packed into this little like three room apartment complex, right?

Working on this collaborative albums.

And when it came time to eat, there was like just this crock pot.

And every day they would, you know, come in for the market.

We pull our money and put all our money together.

And they would come back with like a few bushels of greens, some cornmeal and a small piece of meat for flavoring.

And the magic.

that Anthony was sort of our resident cook and the magic that Anthony was able to create with that crock pot.

But what was even more profound and moving was the assurance that everybody ate.

Whether we had enough pots or dishes to go, it didn't matter.

People shared plates.

People spooned food into hands to ensure that everybody in the circle had something.

And anytime we've had those experiences where everybody's been seen and everybody's been cared for and catered to in some level, they've been life-changing for us.

So our opportunity is to start to look at, as we come into the spaces that we occupy, as we have the ability to lead and influence in all of the ways that we can lead and influence outside of a title, how are we making room?

How are we creating space where everybody can thrive?

And challenging the narrative that there has to be winners and losers.

That's the biggest thing that I think we're healing and transforming right now.

As I've been traveling the country, in addition to having the privilege to do platforms and stages very much like this one, we've been doing dinners in communities.

And I will tell you, just two weeks ago, we were in Los Angeles with a community, and one of the gentlemen in the circle was turning 80.

And he was pondering the very same question because people were asking him over and over again, what does it feel like to be 80?

And he noticed the automatic sort of temptation to want to go to his aches and pains.

But one of the things that he recognized and said was, you know, I realize that time is a choice that I can make for myself.

And I can decide what these next 10 years are going to be like.

The last 10 years between 70 and 80 were amazing.

And I think this idea that you can have more life and you can have more joy and you can be childlike, even in your second or third act, is another part of where I think we are, at least right now when we're considering.

And so he said it took him a couple of weeks to really come up with a good answer.

But he said, you know, when people now ask him, how does it feel to be 80?

He says, ask me when I'm 90, because then I can tell you all the great things I've done over the last 10 years.

So each moment discovering new things.

So I want to invite your adventure, your sense of adventure now more than ever, because you got a lot of wisdom to share and you still probably have a lot of world to see.

Giving yourself permission to do that.

Yeah, when I had my breakdown in 2017, one of the things that became really clear to me was that I was holding a narrative that said I was responsible for fixing everything that was wrong around me.

And some of us may relate to this, right?

You're known as the responsible one in your family.

You're known as the one in your circle that always comes to the rescue with just the right thing for everything and everybody everywhere.

And what I had to tell the truth about for myself was that it was exhausting.

As much as I cared and as much as I felt like I had to prove I cared, it was creating a life that was unmanageable for me because there was no way that I could be everywhere and be everything to everyone all of the time.

It's just impossible.

And so the new story I had to create for myself was one that acknowledged that

Part of caring for the world is caring for myself too and making sure that I could have what I needed to be healthy and thriving so that I could then make healthy choices about where I would show up and what was mine while honoring and respecting what wasn't mine.

So that was about setting boundaries.

That was about really caring for me.

And that new mantra, that new way of articulating that new narrative is what gave me the permission to start to do that.

So the mantra that I would lovingly offer to you is one that invites you to believe that you can do what you love and that you can take care of yourself, like be well taken care of in what you love.

That doesn't mean that you have to sacrifice, that you can do work that you love, you can pursue the field that you love, and you can be well taken care of.

The beauty is that you're in an environment, an educational environment where you're learning.

So one of the opportunities might be is to sit with other people who have done it, who have walked that path.

And who have created a career or a field of endeavor around that and become curious about other people's paths and journeys who are in your field.

But again, it starts with starting to work with that new narrative and that new conversation.

Like I can do what's passionate and moves my heart.

I can work in the field that I want to work in.

And I can take care of myself.

And I can be well supported and cared for as I do it.

Yeah.

So the mantra that you can walk with and start to work with is that I lead from inspiration and am fully supported by those around me.

I lead with compassion and accountability.

that I can stand in excellence and be lovingly, joyfully met by those I collaborate with.

And so again, the context in being able to utilize this mantra and story then also invites you to be in transparent communication and explicit communication with the people that you're collaborating with, sharing your fears, but also sharing your visions.

the way you'd like to work, the way you'd like it to be, the places where you'd like to have them partner with you.

Hear their visions.

What are their hopes around the way that they'd want to work?

And in what way could they partner with you?

And creating a shared vision and a shared commitment and a shared set of agreements that enables you to release more and allow more

Wow.

Mantra, I stand in my value and I allow amazing opportunities to flow to me.

I stand in my value.

and allow amazing opportunities to flow to me.

The invitation here is to begin to recognize and even start to give voice to what it is that you uniquely bring.

And this is an exercise to anyone who feels shy or insecure or nervous, right?

Many of us have been taught culturally not to toot our own horns.

Anybody hear what I'm saying?

And yet when it comes to wanting to attract the kinds of opportunities that we want or the kinds of opportunities that will make a difference to us, it's important that we be able to share what we bring, be able to recognize, be able to humbly honor what we bring.

And so the assignment is to actually write out, here's what I bring.

Here's what I want to bring, my passion, my skills, my talents, and then stand in when I stand in my values.

I allow amazing opportunities to float.

This is a practice.

And I'm going to say to you all, like, you know, when we're looking at bridging between the old reality and the new reality, there are four things that I think are crucial.

And I don't want to sugarcoat them.

The first is courage.

Being willing to step outside of our comfort zone in contribution and in honor of the places where we want to grow.

The second is patience.

It may not happen overnight.

Some things are going to move quicker than other things, right?

Some things are going to be a little bit more stubborn.

But even if we can take baby steps in the directions of the changes we want to make, we're still moving, right?

Any progress is still progress.

The third is permission.

Where are the places we're telling ourselves that we can't?

And we've got lots of justifications and lots of experiences that reinforce that we can't.

But again, where is one place where we can give ourselves permission to step outside of

Whatever narrative that's been keeping us boxed into a particular reality.

Having integrity, operating in your values, Manoj, is the way in which we get to really show up more authentically as ourselves.

It gives us more capacity to lead.

And we can do that in a way that's not antagonistic.

The fourth and final thing is practice.

So every day, what can I practice today?

That brings me more joy, more peace, more freedom, more clarity, more fulfillment.

One thing every day, what can I practice?

Hmm.

So the first one in terms of trends is the opportunity to really ground in what is most meaningful to you.

Sometimes there are aspects of trends that can be very inspiring.

And sometimes there are aspects of trends which we know can be very alienating.

And so part of it is really looking at when I think about my own creativity and I think about my own imagination, are there things that I want to co-create with, but I want to find how to do them my way, which is often what I hear at least, right?

Like I'm not mad at AI necessarily, right?

Well, some of us might be, but I want to figure out how to do it my way, you know, right?

And what is my way?

So there's something about giving yourself permission, right?

to really approach whatever may be new or hot or interesting in a way that really invites your authenticity to the table and your clarity to the table.

The second part is, and I think that this is going to become more and more the case, coming back to being in community, being in circle.

We respect and appreciate that social has a role to play.

There are ways in which we get access to things we wouldn't.

in an online world.

But there also is something about sitting in the grass, right?

With your local community walk neighborhood group, right?

There's something about being with people in shared space that also is an important aspect to your life and not underestimating the value of being seen and the value of having that human to human in-person connection.

Yeah.

Pay attention to your energy.

This is the alignment conversation.

There's nothing wrong with purposeful effort.

There's nothing wrong with inspirational pursuit.

But if it gets to a point where you find you're dragging yourself or you find you're beating up on yourself or you find you're putting undue pressure on yourself and it's producing anxiety or it's producing fear or it's producing doubt, I'm going to say you're a little over your edge.

And this is a beautiful distinction that comes from the work of Gail Straub and David Gershon called The Growing Edge, which is we find that place where

where we're ripe and ready for the change.

In other words, we're not forcing anything, which takes us into terror and constriction.

But we're also not hanging out in our comfort zone.

So where is that place that's just enough of a stretch, right, where you're leaning in, it's uncomfortable, it's new, you're figuring things out, there's excitement, there's a sense of adventure, there's curiosity, there's awe, there's wonder.

And then noticing when it tips for you, either direction, that you have the opportunity to start to recalibrate.

Yeah.

Do the things that ground you, that center you, that bring you peace.

whether that is knitting or walking or just looking out the window or staring at the water or walking by the beach, those small, simple things that give you a sense of perspective, that ground and center your energy, that regulate your nervous system, that invite you to really get to a place of quietude where you can really listen,

and hear your own wisdom and clarity and the guidance that often comes from the ability to step back and regroup.

Regrouping is imperative.

I can't say that enough, right?

At least regrouping is imperative.

So my daily practice, journaling, prayer, meditation, my evening practice, time in nature,

I walk along the water.

I look at the trees.

I look at the flowers.

I look at the sun.

And it gives me the opportunity to reflect and decompress from the whirlwind of the day-to-day.

The more that we can be grounded and centered, the more that we get the guidance we need to be able to make the choices and decisions we need to make in a day-to-day.

I have post-its.

You all can't see this, but on my wall, I have mantras.

At different post-its that I look at.

And one of my favorite, particularly because this was a tough week for me, joy is always my destination.

So like, no matter where I'm at, no matter where I'm feeling, I give myself permission to feel it.

But I ultimately know that joy is my destination, that this is where I'm going.

And that allows me to let the experience move through and keep on moving.

Beautiful, beautiful.

It's been my pleasure.

Thank you so much, TED family.

Really been a joy to be with you today.