[Music] Can you help me? >> Sure. >> People made eye contact. They moved. They said yes. He didn't even know what I was asking for help with. That was so easy to create that moment. So, why don't we do it more often? Why don't we ask for help? I'm not sure that everyone appreciates how hard it is to ask for help, but with four simple words, I made action. I had helpers. You just saw on stage practicing in public people that needed help and a whole bunch of people were here to help including you that were wi ...

It's more important to be able to hear Baba. Egg. [Music] >> You pick me up a little bit on his mic.Maybe close. >> Okay. You get me close.>> We're family. That's our rhythms of the village family band. [Applause] Woo.>> And you and you are lucky. It's only the two of us here today. >> Yeah.>> We're usually up to 10 or 20 people. >> Big band. >> And we have small groups and we have a large group.>> So, just to remind everyone, we live in a world that is violent. If it's not water, it's earthquake. Uh what w ...

[Music] I was feeling a little nervous. So my today's companion actually my companion for always in happiness and in grief. Life is like a montage sequence in a film.A smile here, a heartbreak there, the rush of achievements and the sting of failures. But we don't remember everything in detail. Only fragments joined together like frames of a film.Today I'm going to tell you some of the sequences from my life. Sequence one, short one, take one action. A phone notification buzzes on my table. I check my phone ...

Good afternoon everyone. Thank you for having me here. I'm Mia and today I'm going to talk about how struggles could actually be a good thing.So when I first started middle school, I thought I was prepared. I was ready to make new friends, learn new things, and make great memories. But what I wasn't prepared for was the struggles.I struggled to wake up early and getting on extremely crowded trains and going to school even on Saturdays. It all felt relentless and I missed the uh my old routines and often fel ...

Silence has a sound. It's the kind that sits in your chest when the snow starts falling heavy and the sun disappears for days. Right.You learn that connection isn't optional. It's survival. And in that silence, stories become a lifeline.A good story can melt the distance between people. It can pull neighbors out of isolation and remind us that even in the coldest places, we still belong together. In Alaska, storytelling isn't how we just isn't how we pass the time.It's how we stayed connected, how we felt t ...

[Music] Have you ever set yourself a challenge. Perhaps to get fitter. Perhaps to avoid caffeine after 2 p.m. Maybe to finish that book that's been sitting on the bedside cabinet gathering dust. or maybe to swim or survive a week without chocolate.I over the last few years have tried them all. I can proudly stand here and tell you I can now swim. But [Applause] I haven't been all successful.I just love chocolate. But that's the that's the thing about challenges. They change us no matter how big or how small ...

Home is at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. And we watch as the foothills change with the light and with the seasons. And we look up and we hike in.And the land, it's part of us. The Angelus National Forest and the oaks and the canyons, the owls and the coyotes, they're all home. Unlike many parts of Los Angeles, for us, nature is accessible and present.Deer and bear visit our yards. We hike to trails. And our canyons like Eaton Canyon and Meard Canyon, there are sanctuaries.So when a private develope ...

the land as a way to prepare for the extremes such as fires, droughts, and more. In 2018, my family and I moved to Altadena into a home nestled at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. After learning what it meant to live in a high fire risk zone, I began to imagine what would it look like if fire were to come towards us from those mountains.What kind of landscape might prevent the loss of our home. So, we began to landscape by harvesting water. We built mounds of strategically and thoughtfully layered log ...

I pray they mourn when I leave. Put my face on a tea, they would bury me a G. I'm hip to the max like Perry's on wheat, chicken mingus on croissant. Every day is Junth. This is liberation music. Resilient brilliance. A warning to the snakes who want to rob, steal, and pillage. The road still fully alive so you can kill it with a 100 round drums. meet the rhythms of the village. >> See, we all grieve different, >> so don't rush me. I invite everyone to take a deep breath in. Exhale grief. Inhale creativity. ...

There were two moments in my life when I felt absolutely shattered. July 2010, I had just finished my engineering. 15 companies walked into my college for placements.I had a BTech with honors. I had the grades, the certificates, and yet not a single company selected me. And suddenly I found myself sitting at home jobless for almost a year.The second was exactly 10 years later. July 2020. I had just hung up my uniform after serving for almost a decade in the armed forces.The world outside was under lockdown. ...