Today we released our first episode of My Story Is Not Unique . And before I tell you what that means, I want to say this first—clearly, plainly, without softening it: If you were given a dream, no one else has to believe in it but you. Not your friends. Not your family. Not the algorithm. Not the people who love you but don’t understand you. Just you. That’s not loneliness. That’s ownership. So many of us wait for permission to begin. We wait for confirmation, applause, clar

I’m sitting in a space right now where something has become painfully clear to me: The world isn’t always about helping you find your voice. Sometimes, it’s about learning how to shut it down. No — not the  world. People. I keep running into what I’ve started calling the shut-ter-downs . They shut down the conversation. Shut down the learning. Shut down the curiosity. Shut down anything that might stretch us, move us, change us. They make it acceptable to stay stuck. They nor