“I define empathy as the ability to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes and to understand and connect with what they are feeling - to feel what they’re feeling. You first have to understand the world as they see it through their eyes.”

Good listeners listen to what people say, and great listeners notice what people don’t say. When you know the neuroscience of listening, you realize that people can think up to nine times faster than they can speak. So the first thing they say is probably between ten and fourteen percent of what they are thinking.

“Where there is curiosity, the adult in the child and the child in the adult are awaken. This is how innovation happens.”

“Be aware and be intentional. These are the two most important things”

I look at entrepreneurs, particularly founder-inclined people, like modern day superheroes. They are the people that are responsible for taking on the biggest challenges, with the longest, toughest odds, and overcoming incredible obstacles. And if and when they’re successful, they’re likely to change the world.”

“I think there’s that authenticity of integrating all dimensions of our life experience and being able to commit to truly being that authentic whole person in all moments.”

"Development is not in solving all the contradictions of life, but rather in learning to hold and contain the greater contradiction of living."

“When you want to help people change, you’ve got to uncover their motivations, their drivers, then uncover the situation/impact, and figure out if it’s big enough, strong enough that they’re willing to change who they are to change the outcome.”

“If there is a purpose to this life, I would say it’s to evolve ourselves....”

"Where purpose really takes hold is when it's part of a real belief system, a system of values, a real point of view, a world view where there's a real vision for how the world should be."

“I would really hate it if I wasn’t a possibilities thinker.”

"The clearer you are about who your ideal client is, the more focused, the more targeted you can be, and the [greater] likelihood the chances of success."