I want you all to imagine that you're a judge and also that it's your very first day. You're enormously excited. All that sacrifice, years in law school, so many exams, decades even in legal practice.and you put on your robe and you walk out into your courtroom and then you begin to feel it. The weight, not just the weight of your robe, not just the weight of responsibility and expectation, but the weight of the sheer volume and complexity of the work. Hundreds of pages stacked up on every single case.Dozen ...

Can you hear me. Okay. Can you see me.Technicians can make all the difference to events like these. And I was reminded of this last year in Sagal. Can I get the lights on, Fergle.Thank you, Fergle. technicians can make all the difference to events like these. Um, myself a technician and Virgo and normally I teach here in Dublin.I teach lighting for theater, but I spent a month in Sagal last year teaching technical lighting for theater as well. I was invited by Amadu. Amadu was a DJ, which means he has great ...

Imagine you wake up tomorrow morning. It's a beautiful sunny day, unlike today, of course. You put the kettle on, but just then you hear a knock on your door.When you open it, you see that the police are waiting for you. You're confused. What could you have possibly done.It is then that you are falsely accused of brutally murdering your own child. This is the start of an ordeal that will remain etched in the history of the Irish legal system. You don't know it yet, but the law will fail you.Your vindication ...

There I was, one minute going 300 km an hour around the world's fast Formula 1 circuit. The next I was in the back of an ambulance on the way to Milan Hospital. I was 23 years of age.I just caused €200,000 worth of damage. And it was my first ever race in an Aston Martin. And there was one thing playing through my mind.How the hell was I going to recover for this one. And it wasn't because I was injured. It was because the car was injured and quite badly at that.And I couldn't afford to pay for it. My name ...

In September of 2020, I spent two weeks alone on a farmstead in rural North Dakota at a writing retreat. I was 14 miles from the nearest town of 1,200 people. When I say alone, I mean alone. In 14 days, I saw three humans, a farmer, a census worker, and my husband who came to stay for one night. Those two weeks were the single most uninterrupted period of silence I had ever spent. Physically I had my devices. I had the internet. But psychologically, emotionally, spiritually I had stepped away from my demand ...

The average American life is over 40 million minutes. That's 40 million chances to laugh, to love, to make memories, and to make a difference. But somewhere around million minute 39 million society starts checking you for an expiration date like you're a carton of milk past its prime. They start asking questions like should she still be driving? Aging in America is not for the faint of heart. In some cultures getting older earned you reverence. But here, somewhere along the way, we decided that getting olde ...

Foreign Fore. Foreign. Foreign.Hello. wrong. Thank you.Have you ever had one of those moments in life where you just knew what you were meant to do for the rest of your life. I have. I was about 5 years old and I was sitting outside waiting for a friend to come over and play.And while I was sitting there, I was making up songs and singing them out loud like a lot of little kids do. But I have this really distinct memory of that moment thinking, I hope someone walks by and hears me and discovers me. I guess ...

This is a baton. In life, we're handed them and sometimes we drop them. Happens to the best of us.I'm taking you back to 2024 summer Olympics in Paris, France. The US men's 4x100 relay team is on the track ready to finish their last race to determine who are the fastest men in the world. They have prepared their entire lives for this moment.The world is watching them and the expectations to win a gold medal are unmatched. The starting pistol goes bang and they run around the track displaying athleticism at ...

Who are you when everything you've built your life around suddenly disappears. The marriage ends. The job vanishes.Lose a loved one. Loss doesn't just take the things that you love. It takes who you are.It shakes your self-worth. And then it asks if you lose this, who are you now. Today, I'm going to share with you what I've learned about self-worth.And it's not what most of us have been taught. 13 years ago, I stood on the edge of Lake Ko in Italy, handinhand with my husband, exchanging vows. It was my sec ...

The biggest lie wasn't actually Santa Claus. Um, and that is that we live in a meritocracy. Um, that is the idea that if you work hard enough, if you just persevere enough, then you know you'll make it.Turns out that that stuff's not true. Um, and that you'll get to places simply on your talent. I left university with that belief.Um, boy, was I wrong. I know it looks kind of awful. I'm reading myself.Um because here's what nobody tells you that success. Um this is quite awkward. I'm like talking to the othe ...