Motivation Episodes

“I never forgot that. That was asked of me in July of 1971. I had just left medical school. I was in Ohio. I was one of 35 doctors, but I was the only black doctor, and I was asked that question. And so how do you how do you forget that?” – Dr. Otto E. Stallworth Jr.

“Get comfortable being a little uncomfortable and raise your hand and say, yes, and you'll be amazed you do those two things of where life can take you.” – Alex Boylan

“Confidence is a skill, and you build it from the inside out.” – Simone Knego

“You deserve to be treated with kindness, and it starts by first being kind to yourself.” – Rosie Aiello

“There's a difference between breathing and living. Everybody will breathe, but not everybody will live. Everybody will exist, but not everybody will live.” – Dr. Kevin Foreman

“Don't make your work your identity.” – Jacob Karnes

“At the same time in which, he kind of like crushed my dream a little bit. He gave me permission to dream a new one, a different one, which in the end, looking back five, six years later, I appreciate.” – Regina Linke

“Even if it doesn't mean anything to you, it means something to the person that you're writing for, and it means something to the person who's reading the story.” – Dr. Rhonda M. Lawson

“It just takes a different mindset and a different approach and a different way of saying yes to yourself…I learned to say yes to myself and say, give it a chance. See what happens.” – Heike Yates

“I also want my kids to see that if you have something inside of you and you want to tell the story, tell the story...I like to write, and if something pops up, I'm going to tell the story because I'm going to do my very best to not die with any story inside of me.” – Dr. Charles Thomas Jr.

“When we don't do the inner work as leaders, then we tend to lead from a place of fear and control and ego, as opposed to a place of compassion and love and shared purpose.” – Jane Marie Chen

“If you have a very empty but very conscious mind…then anything can happen in that mind.” – Stan Lai, PhD.

“When you hit rock bottom, and you really hit rock bottom, you look around and you kind of take account and you go, all right, why am I here? How do I get out of here? When you're down there and you're alone, it leaves an impression. And so, when I got myself out of it, I just decided I never wante…

“If you don't care about that reader, if that's not the main focus, the rest doesn't matter.” – Troy Horne

“We are transformed more through our trials than our triumphs.” – Wendy Gunn

"Keep having conversations that drive people to more and better." – Bridget Hom

“Sometimes our nightmares are other people's dreams.” – Dwayne Morton

“When you really believe in what you're doing, you know how much of a difference that makes.” – Dr. Josh McConkey

“The reason why people want to be so perfect and have perfectionism isn't because they're scared of failure. They're scared of failing in front of other people.” – Roy Redd

“I wanted to be an impact player. And what that meant to me was whatever time I'm given on the field, whenever I step on the field, that my presence will be known, felt, and seen.” – Phebe Trotman

“You want to fail fast, and you want to fail big, because that's how you get ultimately to your objective to accomplish your mission.” – Shaun L. Murphy

"I was told to slow down, and I did. And then the second I could run back to the hustle; I went back to it because that was where my identity was." – Dr. Portia Preston

“If you're not where you want to be, create a space to get to where you want to go.” – Dr. Shanea Clancy

“I faced a choice as a young man. I was either going to continue to pitch my fit and end up divorced, or I’m going to give God a chance. And in my arrogance, I told God I’d give Him a chance, and in His grace and kindness, He gave me a chance.” – Jim Tracy