“Astronaut Abby” she set a goal at a very young age to be the first person to set foot on Mars. Her path has led her to becoming a major advocate for STEM and particularly STEM education for girls.
“I really hate inefficiency, and housing is probably the most inefficient part of society right now. So there have been a couple of different studies that have said, if you relax zoning restrictions in San Francisco, San Jose, and New York City, U.S. GDP would be four percent higher.”
Rebecca Eyre has an incredible story that led to her becoming the CEO of Project HEAL, an organization dedicated to providing eating disorder treatment to groups of people historically denied access.
“For better and for worse, intentions are kind of meaningless, right? What actually matters is the lived experience of the people who work for you—the lived experience of your consumers.”
“I went straight towards, ‘Hey, what if we manipulate brain waves?’ What if we change them? Does that affect mental state? And that alone would have been very controversial. What I was doing… was trying to do it with sound. So 20 years later… I am very happy to say that it is supported by wide empirical evidence.”
46:19 – “I definitely know the fulfillment came once I stepped away and built my own brand and stopped selling other people’s ideas—when I had my own that were worthy enough to be sold.”
“I tried [a 9-5] for four years at a medical company in Minnesota. And the first year or two was fun, exciting and new, and the money was decent and all was well. But after the third and fourth year, I just felt like I was in jail.”
“I started looking at the stats on plastic waste just from laundry detergent, and there’s about a billion jugs purchased in North America every year. And the absolute best end of the stats that I can find is about 30% are recycled in any capacity, so 10% are actually physically repurposed into new stuff.”
“I started looking at the stats on plastic waste just from laundry detergent, and there’s about a billion jugs purchased in North America every year. And the absolute best end of the stats that I can find is about 30% are recycled in any capacity, so 10% are actually physically repurposed into new stuff.”
“I started looking at the stats on plastic waste just from laundry detergent, and there’s about a billion jugs purchased in North America every year. And the absolute best end of the stats that I can find is about 30% are recycled in any capacity, so 10% are actually physically repurposed into new stuff.”