If we don't stop telling the story that we've been telling ourselves about who we are and how we interact with our planet, then we're not going to save our planet. Our survival actually depends on us telling a new story about how we interact with our environment.

Si pensamos desde la compasión y cómo podemos construir puentes, cómo podemos crear una mejor sociedad, y enfocamos eso hacia los contenidos en el sector creativo, quizá estamos mucho más cerca de la ciudad que todos merecemos.

A través de la compasión podemos tejer puentes para entender otros puntos de vista de personas que quizá nunca nos habíamos dado la oportunidad de entender.

La compasión es un antídoto para la polarización.

La compasión tiene que ser una forma de protesta, una forma de resistencia y una forma de rebeldía absoluta.

I’ll break down “Hustle like an Immigrant” into five different steps. One is about what’s your ‘why’ – why are you doing what you’re doing? Two is your goal – do you have a goal that has been formed by your why? Three, do you have the discipline to see your goals through? Four – perseverance. Hardship is going to come, obstacles are going to come your way, can you get through those? Five, I call it ‘the blank check.’ Are you a risk taker, are you willing, at any given point, to sacrifice who you are for what you can ultimately become?

We need heroes right now. “The greatest threat to the planet is the belief that someone else will save it”. There’s no one else. I think we’re seeing that with our leadership right now. It’s actually up to us. So I hope for my daughter and all her generation and all the generations to come that you find a new powerful story about what your role is in this. Because the Earth is hiring.

The earth is hiring

Death is a hard thing to deal with, especially in our society where people seem to be so sheltered from it. No one really wants to look at it.

I had to end this idea that I had about myself, unlearn habits and those stories I told myself. It had to happen this way, just like everything else in life.

If you are going through something and there is even a small feeling, a tiny inkling that comes over you to change the situation – you have every right to do so by advocating for yourself.

The stories that we tell ourselves and others about how we're making our way in the world are incredibly important.

You are being setup to walk into your destiny.

When you're reading a book you don't cry at the chapter you just finished because you know another chapter is behind it.

While an ending may hurt and you might cry, it is just another part of your journey.

My ending was simply my beginning to propel me to my destiny — to shape this nation.

There was more that was required of me and I made a choice to say yes.

If you were really told what it was going to take for you to be everything that you are destined to be, would you still say yes?

If an ending for you meant that it's going to cost you [...], would you still say yes?

If you were told that an ending for you to walk into your destiny meant that you would have to lose something, but you would gain everything... would you still say yes?

My influence isn't just for me. It is so that I can make this world a little better because I am in it.

My destiny, calling, and the reason I am on this earth is to speak truth to power and to be unapologetic to anything that I write.

Your journey is not just for you. Someone right now is waiting on you to be all that you can be so that they can be all that they are destined to be.

What I thought was an ending was just a beginning for me to step into my destiny.

I had to own how I had allowed myself to be placed on the back-burner. I had to get up.