It's a great opportunity that I'm here on TEDex and I always used to admire people who are speaking here. There's so much to learn. In fact, so many speakers who came before before me also had their own stories, had their own vision, had their own ways of getting into what they feel is successful.But summarizing it into one single thing, what I have learned is there are so many doctors who spoke before me. The doctors face the biggest challenge when it comes to marketing because they feel if they market the ...

[applause] One core memory that I have from when I used to live in Turkey was the importance national holidays held for students. Every year, our classes would put on performances where students read poems, sang songs, perform traditional dances, and more. During our preparation for these performances, there was one position that also got to play behind the scenes, the leader.chosen in a classroom, buzzing with whispered guesses, scraping chairs, and my stomach tightening as I wondered whether if I'd ever b ...

[applause] I wanted to start up here with just a sound. Two gunshots. I remember I was in an alleyway with two of my best friends, Sam and Raw, and we were going down to our favorite restaurant down the street. We were in the heart of Detroit and I remember after hearing those two gunshots, I froze like anybody would.And I remember in those 2 minutes, which to me felt like 12, I really got to analyze my surroundings. Everything was at a standstill. [snorts] After the ringing in my ear stopped, I came to a w ...

[music] We all have heroes and they don't all wear capes. I lost my mom when I was three and she left behind a powerful legacy of courage, sacrifice, and service that to this day continues to inspire me. Nana Jing Jing was a bright, talented, fun-loving teen who liked regular teenager things like reading, singing, and playing the guitar.But she chose to leave this behind to serve at the front lines in the remote Cordeliera Mountains of the Philippines. She learned the local language, wrote songs, taught lit ...

[music] [applause] I still remember the sting of my first real disappointment at work. I was a young woman working in a busy bookstore when my manager suddenly quit. I kept with the day-to-day operations, opening and closing, bank runs, placing textbook orders, and reconciling customer complaints, all during the busiest season of the year, only to find out I wasn't even considered for the managing position.Somehow, I wasn't qualified enough to be promoted. Yet, I was qualified enough to train the new manage ...

[music] [applause] I'm 6 years old and I'm standing in the kitchen. My hands are covered in cake batter. I'm licking the spoon, savoring every last drop. The oven glows warm against my mother's face. And for this one moment every year baking Christmas wine cakes, I feel her fully present. The rest of the year she's like a storm, working, producing, achieving, never stopping, never breathing, never fully here. And yet she is the most successful woman I know. Sharp, driven, outspoken. She could command the at ...

I was standing in my son's closet, frantically sniffing his onesies, looking like an addict in withdrawal. It was 2 weeks after I'd given birth. My baby was happy, healthy, and sleeping while I was balling my eyes out, feeling like a total failure.We all have heard that phrase that it takes a village to raise a child. I had my village, my husband, my parents, my in-laws, a number of people I could reach out to. And yet, day after day, night after night, I felt miserable.I felt like I didn't deserve to live, ...

[applause] Leia is the the is it co-founder or founder. Co-founder of um Sublime. Um but she also uh didn't bike across the United States.She biked across the continent of Africa and uh she has uh built a company that is the model that is the gold standard. Um Leia, can you tell us a little bit about um what what Sublime does and then I want to go back to your life and how you came to start it and and how you got it from where it was at at the Genesis to where it is now. And then I want to talk a little bit ...

[music] [music] [applause] Have you ever looked at your life, your job, your routines, your relationships, and thought, who chose all of this. I had one of those moments 5 years ago, a full body pause, because from the outside, my life looked shiny. I downtown Chicago apartments, a six-f figureure consulting career, and a relationship I thought would lead to a stable life.I checked off every box I was supposed to. So, why was I waking up with panic attacks. Why was my hair falling out and patches.I didn't r ...

Mamma mia, quanti siete. Ok, allora il mio elemento naturale è l'acqua del mare, però quando ero bambina io mi sono innamorata del cielo, avevo un grosso libro pieno di immagini bellissime, colorate di carta patinata, no. eh il sole, la luna, le stelle, i pianeti, ma la mia passione assoluta erano le galassie e non solo per questa straordinaria bellezza innegabile, ma mi affascinava l'idea che tutte questi miliardi di stelle, l'avevo letto sul libro che erano miliardi, tutte diverse, di colori diversi, di f ...