Ranjay Gulati

She said, yes.

I said, that was scary.

Why didn't, didn't you think you could shoot us?

She said, you know what?

I was scared.

But being scared doesn't mean you do nothing.

And it dawned on me that, you know, fear can paralyze us.

We have our own little self, and fear is a primal human emotion hardwired in the primitive brain.

So most of us are paralyzed by fear.

We don't wanna, and we have this self-talk in our head.

I can't do this, this is not me.

And you have to change your self-talk.

And my mother's mind, you know, she had worked incredibly hard, overcoming incredible obstacles to reach where she had.

From being a laid off school teacher to anthropologist, turned businesswoman, fashion designer in France, you know, she wasn't gonna let somebody bully her now.

So how do we change that talk in our head is the starting point in this journey.

It's not the end point.

But there was, I skipped that part.

I skipped the conciliatory conversation to say, I don't want to, this is not gonna happen.

He was adamant, I am taking your signature today.

I will not leave this room without your signing this paper.