Jane Chen

I finally connected the dots.

Feeling so powerless through my childhood, that's what had driven me to want to help the most powerless people in the world.

I had not made that connection before.

So my pain had become my purpose.

but it was also my shadow because it led me to working in very unhealthy ways, as I said, to the point of just complete burnout, because I also believe that my worth depended on what I achieved.

So it wasn't just like the passion and the urgency, but there was this whole thing where my worthiness and sense of enoughness was tangled up in achievement.