Who actually makes decisions. It seems like it's a relatively complex topic. I mean, when you're a kid, it seems to always be your parents.No matter what happens, your parents are there to tell you exactly what to do. Whether it's what time to go to bed, whether or not to brush your teeth, whether or not to eat your vegetables, you kind of have everything set already for you. And then as you get older and older, you start to set your own agenda. You make your own choices.When you hit 12 or 13, suddenly you' ...

When I was a kid, my mom took me to see Black Panther. It was one of the first superhero movies I'd ever seen. I remember melting into that seat in the theater, watching Tchala get into all these crazy fights and do black back flips that my child brain couldn't fully comprehend.But more than anything, I remember the credits. The feeling after the movie finished that I just seen something spectacular. A story about a man learning from the sins of his ancestors to lead his nation of Wakanda into the future.Fr ...

What if confidence isn’t something you’re born with, but something you build? In this talk, Wilder challenges the idea of waiting until you feel ‘ready,’ showing how action itself is what creates confidence. He reframes fear and uncertainty as the starting point, not the barrier, to growth. Wilder Carrigan is a student at Northeastern University with a focus on business, corporate innovation, and digital content creation. He is particularly interested in how individuals build confidence, develop resilience, ...

Most little girls have an affinity for pretty things. Whether it's Barbie dolls or colorful makeup or sparkly dresses, there seems to be no entangling this association between femininity and beauty. And for most of recorded history, it's always been that way. Women have bleached their skin and blackened their teeth and bound their feet and elongated their necks. But when thinking about historical beauty, nothing quite compares to the idea of the corset. And when we hear this word corset, we often imagine Vi ...

Você já imaginou como é complexo se fazer saúde na região amazônica? Você já parou para pensar como é complexo se fazer saúde quando a estrada ela é um rio? Quando a unidade básica de saúde fica 8, 10, 12 ou 14 horas de distância da sua residência e de barco, você já parou para pensar como é complexo se viver debaixo de uma floresta que muitas vezes ela é tão densa que acaba escondendo as desigualdades que o povo aqui vive e enfrenta. Meus amigos, sejam bem-vindos ao estado do Pará, o segundo maior estado d ...

What if the most important competition in life is not with others but with the promise we made to ourselves. I begin with this question because it changed my life long before I knew I would be standing here on this stage. 10 years ago, I made a promise.It was my 30th birthday. I was 5 months into postpartum, sleepdeprived with a baby in one arm and self-doubt in the other. You know when we are in our 20ies and early teens we feel that 30 is too far and before we turn 30 we going to achieve this achieve that ...

There are places in this world where there are no billboards, no one to tell you who you should be or what you should want. I found one of these places in the Canadian Arctic. I was walking home from work one day when I stopped.In front of me was vast frozen white in every direction, quiet and still. Even my breath, visible in the cold air felt too loud. I inhaled gently warming my breath as it moved through my body and with every breath my body fell into the stillness around me.I felt a kind of connection ...

There is no doubt whether we are young or old. Dur we can recall clearly the period which was most unexpected and shocking. We term as pandemic.Many love lost loved ones. Life changed drastically. If we had predicted that all the countries would unanimously agree to ground their planes from the international airspace for two years.We would not believe it. No one flew. Just the word COVID 19 still distress many people and most believe for a modern day this is by far the worst thing that's happened to us.You ...

We're told that money is neutral, transactional. But what if that were true. Why are we so stressed about money.And I'm here to tell you that the problem isn't money. It is our relationship with money. My relationship with money didn't start with me.It began generations ago. My grandparents escaped the great famine of China and arrived in Bangkok, Chinatown with almost nothing. They raised 11 children with grit, discipline, and one constant belief.Money was never enough. That belief kept them alive. So I gr ...

I almost died on 13th August 2025. So I believe the first question on everyone's mind must be why climb K2. Eight years ago I submitted Mount Everest.I had thought that was an achievement of a lifetime. Then I read that K2 is the savage mountain. It's the mountain of mountains.Everest is like a children's playground when compared to K2. It feared me, terrified me to hear of Kier's K2's fearsome reputation. So it took me a good six years to decide to climb K2 as I'm not a person without fear.But I knew that ...