Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.
— Caroline Ghosn
A smile and good energy. They will take you farther than any material possession.
I begin to cut myself off in a digital shutdown at about 10 P.M. Phone, laptop, and iPad go down. If I'm at home, I'll leave my laptop and iPad in the living room. Those things don't go into my bedroom at all.
My first college internship was at Sony Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles. My second internship was at McKinsey & Company as a consultant - that turned into my first job after graduation.
I wish I had known the value of interning at a startup before starting my own. There is so much I could have learned on somebody else's dime in a much lower-risk environment.
If what you're doing today is moving you closer to your passion, then that's wonderful.
I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.
You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.
Especially in the first 10-15 years, your regular resume is not an authentic representation of you - you don't really have that many notches on your belt, so to speak. In a super-competitive job environment, you need to be able to tell a multi-dimensional story about who you are as a person.
Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself.
The most important thing that I did was to actually take the time to sit down every month and do a review of what I spent and look at it objectively.
Be the best you can be, but acknowledge that you will make mistakes, and then know which errors to let go of. There will be typos in e-mails, meetings you are late for, daily to-do lists that don't get completed. Cut yourself some slack and, more important, reward yourself along the way.
Impostor syndrome, or feeling like a fraud at work, at home, or anywhere else in your life, will probably affect you at some point.
A mentor is someone who is willing to give you advice that isn't in the best interest for them. It takes a real mentor to put you first.
Fashion doesn't boost my confidence - rather, it provides a canvas to express or reflect it and whatever is influencing me in my life at the moment.
Run focus groups. Do whatever you need to do to get 8 to 10 people together in a room and put your product in front of them. Ask them how much they would pay for it and whether they would pay for it. It's really important to get user validation early and often.
Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.
We live by our values at Levo. We began by surrounding ourselves with passionate, values-driven people who had their intentions in the right place, and learned that like attracted like.
Whenever you have to figure out things that aren't explicit, like in salary negotiations, you see differences in how women and people of color succeed.
Being an entrepreneur is not a 9-to-5 job.
I have always been fascinated by entrepreneurship.
Your energy is a barometer for your passion.
I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, 'Where do I want to be?' but 'What do I want to learn from this?' Use that opportunity to be a sponge.
I have a million career weaknesses, and although it's uncomfortable, I believe that authentically acknowledging and working through your vulnerability is more powerful than the delusion of perfection.
As individuals, we professional women need to learn how to raise our hands and ask for more throughout our careers.
The genesis of the Thinking Talent app came from wanting to create a way to scale self-discovery with a framework that we, personally, inside of the company, have used really successfully.
Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.
You're a smart person. You're going to figure out where you can be more effective and more efficient with your own resources, and that's going to put more of an investment and emphasis on your future.
When faced with an obstacle or uncertainty in your abilities, use it as an opportunity to grow your talents.
You need to be really great at your job. You need a strong network of peers, and you need a strong network of mentors.
Education has rules and parameters. Women outperform men when the parameters are clear.
White is hands down my favorite color and the color I wear the most.
Just displaying your resume online, which LinkedIn lets you do, isn't enough.
I've always known I've wanted to build companies that have a social impact.
Believe in yourself. You are enough.
I've started to really nurture a bedtime routine, which, for me, starts with caffeine-free tea, usually rooibos or jasmine tea, something soothing, very fragrant, just a reminder to get back to your senses.
I'm very close to my family.
In high school, I interned at my mother's restaurant and learned the small-business ropes. It was really instructive and taught me to switch contexts quickly, as I contributed to everything from managing the reception desk to building their website.
There's this pressure to perform in your twenties - I think it comes from this whole generational foreshadowing that presumes there will be a whole other layer of things to worry about in your thirties.
You are bigger than your self-doubt. Remind yourself of that each and every day.
A skill is something that you aren't inherently talented at and that isn't an effortless action, the way your thinking talents might be, but is something you can become excellent at nonetheless.
One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'
Productivity doesn't have to be complicated. It can be easily boosted through a manageable combination of the right tools, resources, and habits to make the most of your time.
As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology.
The big experience of feeling like I jumped off into the deep end was that transition from college into the workforce. There were so many unwritten rules I didn't understand.
If you're not certain about something, it might mean you should reach out to a person you trust for advice.
We work more than we do anything else in our lives, but the average person only interacts with four to five colleagues. Outside of that, they don't build that many relationships.
Your style can be an artistic part of your personal leadership journey.
Power is ultimately about the energy you emanate from within.
I'm nicknaming millennials 'the purpose generation' because we're making so many decisions.
