Sometimes in life, we grip tight. We try to force the path to be whatever we want it to be and teh path just keeps doing whatever it’s gonna do.

The clay is going to do what the clay is going to do. And the Camino is similar.

The more the creative community built around me, the more it needed a place to gather.

I built a community around me and I did that by helping other creatives to build the business side of their businesses.

I had this fire that I had inside of me that I felt like I had kept having to dim over and over and over again to fit in places.

If something gets hard, I just double down and work harder. And the harder you work, the more you feel like you’re getting ahead.

That map can show you where they went. What it cannot show you is where you will go.

When we were little someone hands us a map. And for some people, that map comes with extra weight.

I’ve spent the majority of my life learning that those things were not detours. Those were the actual journey.

I spent my whole life thinking about sacrifice. About what it means that someone gave everything so that you could be standing here to have to opportunity that you have today.

It was this energy that flowed through me to the people I loved to keep them safe and alive and fed.

We just got to put all the money together. Everything goes into the pot. Everyone’s contributing. No one’s really thinking about it. You just kind of do it.

I thought I came here to play music. Now I know I came here to be played by it.

How do we know where we're going if we don't know where we've been?

العمل هو الوسيلة وليس الغاية

“Innovation doesn’t show up as confidence… it shows as curiosity. It shows up as discomfort. It shows up as someone asking you to step into a room you’re not sure you are ready for.”

Innovation isn’t sort of a solo act. It takes partners; it doesn’t happen alone.

Reimagination is an act of resistance - it is a refusal to accept what exists now is all that is possible.

Hope actually requires uncertainty. If we knew how the story was going to end, would we need hope at all?

Rather than fixating on a single outcome, hope asks uto anchor ourselves in who we want to be. How we want to show up. What we refuse to go of.

Hope lives in that space where the future is unclear - where things could go many different directions - and we choose, again and again, to act in alignment with our values anyway.

Art and imagination create the conditions for hope to survive.

By creating, by making things, by making something, you're filling a void with yourself and you're giving the world something. Everyone here has something to give.

What if you changed your perspective from having something to prove to having something to give?

The fastest way to earn a seat at the table is to host the meal.