To a Billion with Joy

“We do make our own world.” -Kathy Lemak “To be able to put myself out into the world as who I really am.” -Amy Steindler “You can’t out-think your emotions.” -Tamara Arnold

“Just slowing down and allowing yourself to connect more deeply with the beauty that’s in front of us.” -Helen Young-McLaughlin “I really enjoy helping the people around me also achieve what they’re trying to achieve.” -Pramod Raheja “The dream I have for myself is really the dream I have for everyone – to have the freedom and the courage to be who we are.” -Beth Solomon

“100% of the time those difficult experiences have led them to be exceptional at what they’re doing now.” -Cyndy Porter “You always have to leave the other person in choice.” -Yolande Grill

“I want a business to be the solution to their problems.” -Sarah Yost “What feels like fun? What would be easy? How can we actually use what comes naturally for us?” -Caryn Gillen

“I want to be a facilitator of some more fruitful discussions about some of the real big issues we’re facing in society.” -Chris Degnan “If you can just reach one person, you made a difference. And it’s ok if changing that one person is yourself.” -Matt Mills

“Fear is always of the unknown. I do not fear something that I already know about.” -CK Taneja “Mental hygiene around discrimination is like physical hygiene like washing our hands.” - Meredith Holley “For the world reaching a point where people can do anything they can dream.” - Mathieu Guerville

“My vision for my business is to use it as a tool to promote equity.” -Christine Clapp “One of the most important things for people is to actually feel good about themselves.” -Hunter Moore “What we do for others has everything to do with how we feel about ourselves.” -Charlie Janes

“I think the key to life is connection. If you get connection in business, that’s wonderful… if you don’t have that connection in your personal life you can get lost.” -George O’Shea “When we are all doing something that brings us personal joy, that taps into our unique skills, we will make ourselves happy and have a positive influence on others in the world.” -Beth Ridley “You get one pass at this (life).” -Martin Sullivan

“We need to help each other in achieving our mission on earth, our dreams.” -Anthony Perdrix “Why do you do what you do?” -Chris Yoko “It starts with equity. I dream of a world where there is equity and equal access.” -Glenn Block

“Even though I need to be focused on the writing, I also need the breaks. I’ll do this, and then I come back.” -Kathy Lemak “I made a conscious decision to assume that I belonged where I was.” -Amy Steindler “I had to make friends with resistance. Resistance was actually the guide that I was looking for.” -Tamara Arnold

“What are you most proud of? What do you want to purge? Where do you want to be most productive today? What are you grateful for?” -Helen Young-McLaughlin “The sleep and the rest really do matter for everything.” -Pramod Raheja “Seeing that step as fuel vs. a moral imperative. I do that to support my business and my life. Not because it makes me a good person.”-Sarah Yost

“We do a commute in the morning anyway.” -Mathieu Guerville “Leave your camera on, but turn off the view of yourself.” -Cyndy Porter “Sometimes you have to give permission to end the day.” -Yolande Grill

“You have to find time to start winding down.” -Kevin Roney “What are you committing to fail at to accomplish your goal?” -Caryn Gillen

“For me it’s been music. For me music is healing.” -Chris Degnan “My work is helping the people who crashed from go-go-going so much.” -Leah Chischilly “10 years of change is happening pretty much in 10 months.” -Matt Mills

“If there are brakes in the car, then you can go fast.” -CK Taneja “I really try to be mindful about taking breaks.’” -Josh Henkin “If we’re doing well, we can actually help people.” -Meredith Holley

“You have to do less to do more.” -Christine Clapp “Resilience needs to have victories along the way.” -Hunter Moore “You can do anything, but you can’t do everything.” -Charlie Janes

“I realized that the turnaround was the juice.” -George O’Shea “We live in this culture of productivity and always doing.” -Beth Ridley “It’s not necessarily that I have to turn everything off, but just focus somewhere else.” -Martin Sullivan

“It’s natural for us to sleep, to do nothing, to run, to sweat, to jump.” -Anthony Perdrix “Remembering the importance of doing nothing.” -Chris Yoko “Being intentional is like my mantra these days.” -Glenn Block

“We're always telling the little ones how to feel and what to feel.” -Kathy Lemak “If I'm trying to help, I'm not helping.” -Amy Steindler “When someone's crying or having a moment, that's part of their growth.” -Tamara Arnold

“What's my intention behind helping them? Do I want to solve, tell, or be there for them to help them grow?” -Helen Young-McLaughlin “You will attract all the work that the people who have set boundaries don't want to do.” -Beth Solomon

“You should meet as many people as you can to broaden the surface area of serendipity to happen.” -Mathieu Guerville “You kind of get what you give.” -Pramod Raheja

“You may have to lower your façade to a great degree (to ask for help).” -Kevin Roney “Always have a list of 10 things that you need, so that you’re able to ask for help all the time.” -Caryn Gillen “If everyone who loves to give never receives then we have no one to give to.” -Sarah Yost

“You're probably not going to give them the answer they need right now, but it's still important for them to know that you're there.” -Chris Degnan “We forget that doctors are just ppl and they don't actually know everything.” -Leah Chischilly “Anyone who tells you that this is the way that it has to be done is wrong.” -Matt Mills

“I help ppl to see that the perspectives are different. Nobody is totally right or totally wrong. They are looking from a different perspective.” -CK Taneja “If we give feedback and then ask, ‘what do you think I just said?’” -Josh Henkin “What is actually helping? And what is pretending to be helping to get praise?” -Meredith Holley

“The ppl who come back to us are the best public speakers you know.” -Christine Clapp “I thought community was for other people. OMG, I get to play with other people.” -Hunter Moore “Believing in the person is helpful.” -Charlie Janes

“My favorite client likes to say intellectual honesty. I learned that’s the key to business.” -George O’Shea “A lot of times you don’t appreciate how helpful you are.” -Beth Ridley “The source a lot of times makes a difference. Where is the information coming from?” -Martin Sullivan

“If you want to give more, you have to become more.” -Anthony Perdrix “I try to look for people who are going to disagree with me.” -Chris Yoko “One thing that has been really helpful is having mentors or guides who have really taken the time to understand me.” -Glenn Block

“What you do every day is really what shapes you.” -Anthony Perdrix “You put those beliefs out there and you start to act in alignment with them.” -Chris Yoko “Marketing is guilty of saying that technology will solve everything.” -Glenn Block

“Incredible talent can end up with poor results if they are not working in the same direction.” -George O’Shea “Resilience is a foundational leadership competency.” -Beth Ridley “What bigger resources are being provided that I can use?” -Martin Sullivan

“The best public speakers are the people who are having a 1-1 conversation with everyone in the audience.” -Christine Clapp “My work is getting to that decades old conversation.” -Hunter Moore “When we’re feeling confident, we always do better.” -Charlie Janes

“What worse can happen? Let’s try. Bankruptcy is bankruptcy. When the fear of failure was not there, the opportunities started showing up.” -CK Taneja “Get out of the laboratory.” -Josh Henkin “We don’t see the way we’re buying into our own powerlessness at first.” -Meredith Holley

“What’s worth saving? What needs to change? These are not easy questions.” -Chris Degnan “Your body’s so smart, and it will tell you when something is amiss.” -Leah Chischilly “Running has this power to show you something about yourself that you didn’t know was there.” -Matt Mills

“If you have a tender brain, you need to work with someone who understands a tender brain.” – Sarah Yost

“What is the mission? – first and foremost. Organizational design is actually the last part.” -Kevin Roney “Other people’s dreams don’t make your dreams less important.” -Caryn Gillen

“The language we had was vastly different than the language of customers. That language disconnect was the first clue.” -Mathieu Guerville “You can be more creative when you let go of some old mindsets.” -Yolande Grill “So many people have so much to offer that they don’t give themselves credit for.” -Cyndy Porter

“It’s not about who’s right. It’s about what’s right.” -Pramod Raheja “If we’re not intentional, it’s very easy to go back into automation.” -Helen Young-McLaughlin “What would it feel like to just be able to speak your truth?” -Beth Solomon

“It’s frustrating when someone comes and squashes your dreams, especially your parents.” -Kathy Lemak “I didn’t realize what a prison having to know was.” -Amy Steindler “Spirit is trying to bring you everything you want right now.” -Tamara Arnold

“Technology is not the solution to everything.” -Glenn Block “Define what you want to accomplish first.” -Chris Yoko “What is it that I can do with my life?”-Anthony Perdrix

“Innovation is an ongoing process of learning from failures.” -Martin Sullivan “Leaders often think they are more in touch with what is going on in the company than they actually are.” -Beth Ridley “Getting comfortable is the thing that hurts companies going to market.” -George O’Shea

“I think magic happens with rapport.” -Hunter Moore “You as the owner can't be doing all the work and making all the decisions.” -Charlie Janes “Every single person can be a great public speaker.” -Christine Clapp

“The most under used path to get a job is networking.” -Josh Henkin “We identify talking about the behavior as more of a problem than the problem itself.” -Meredith Holley “I help them find opportunities in themselves and identify where they can bring value.” -CK Taneja

“The endocrine system has been downplayed for a long time.” -Leah Chischilly “It’s amazing what will happen when you start your day with a run.” -Matt Mills “The best thing you can do is whatever assignment you have, do a great job.” -Chris Degnan

“Where are you keeping yourself comfortable in a way that’s stealing money from your business?” -Caryn Gillen “We don’t have to have all our problems solved to be of service in the world.” -Sarah Yost “Technology is an enabler for the business, not the business itself.” -Kevin Roney

“Ask the best questions of your data so you get the best results.” -Yolande Grill “Other people judge us based on how we look – whether we like it or not.” -Cyndy Porter “It’s healthy to have some amount of turnover and diversity.” -Mathieu Guerville

“Mid-level managers are the key to profitability.” -Helen Young-McLaughlin “People make mistakes all the time in the workplace.” -Beth Solomon “Hey, why can’t we just use a drone?” -Pramod Raheja

“I’m not stuck in my circumstances. I’m stuck in my thinking.” -Amy Steindler “I am so ready universe. Bring me all the things. And yet inside we're blocked.” -Tamara Arnold “Writers can look like they’re daydreaming all the time.” -Kathy Lemak

“Ultimately what we decided to do was work with orgs who have a passion or purpose beyond profit.” -Chris Yoko “Man, maybe I don’t need all this stuff to be happy.” -Anthony Perdrix “There’s a lot of value in understanding the customers and bringing it back to the team.” -Glenn Block

“There are really some basic principles of what helps to bring out the best in others.” -Beth Ridley “I like to find people that are looking to disrupt.” -George O’Shea “What if? What about? What is it you’re not telling me?” -Martin Sullivan

“If you’re running in the right direction, growth is easy.” -Charlie Janes “One of the things that’s important to me is to lift up people who speak differently.” -Christine Clapp “Who you've considered yourself to be may not be who you actually are.” -Hunter Moore

“There are so many issues in the workplace that lead people to leave their career or change jobs to protect themselves.” -Meredith Holley “What gives purpose is loving people and helping them grow.” -CK Taneja “What I realized fairly early on was that these people were totally unprepared to show an employer what they could bring to my organization.” -Josh Henkin

“Running helps people to anchor in their goals.” -Matt Mills “Things don’t stay the same, but what stays the same is promoting understanding of other parts of the world.” -Chris Degnan “Health is so individual; it really is different from person to person.” -Leah Chischilly