Brené Brown

Same.

And so busy, in fact, that Allison and I just celebrated our 20th anniversary and neither of us remembered.

Like, oh, guilty as charged.

Thank you.

Oh, well, thank you.

It was so kind of you to read and support it.

And I was blown away by it, but I'm a little biased.

So your validation means a ton.

I just want the record to show I remembered before she did.

You're not going to make me dad joke, are you?

I think about paradoxes, two opposites coexisting.

And I love the work of Marianne Lewis and Wendy Smith on explaining how those paradoxes are actually often the source of our best ideas, our most important decisions, but they can drive us crazy too.

They make a compelling case that a core leadership skill is being able to do both and as opposed to either or.

And, you know, I always see that and think, yeah, that's also a core parenting skill, friendship skill, marriage skill.

So many of the challenges that...

I can't deny it.

Does that mean I'm spiritual?

That's a realization for me.

Because I've never connected to the concept at all before until you described it that way.

Yeah.