If you have spent any time around young men or boys, you've probably heard of the manosphere. People know it as a dark corner of the internet where influencers preach strength without empathy or dominance without compassion. And if you're anything like me, you've probably asked yourself two questions.Number one, what is wrong with these guys. And number two, how did we get here. Over the last decade, I've had conversations with men and boys from the classroom to the boardroom about masculinities.And I want ...

They say that home is where the heart is. But what happens when your heart belongs to more than one space. when your heart has learned to live in multiple places at once.I spent my life moving between countries, cultures, and expectations, questioning my sense of belonging. Over time, I realized maybe I was never meant to identify as a single country, but to connect them. The strongest bridges aren't built from concrete or steel.They're built from people. People that are able to stand between differences an ...

I've always been drawn to things that have nothing to do with me. In the same way that many of us in the audience may lose track of time when binge watching your favorite TV show, I'd be in Nairobi, but I'd be reading about the US midterms or the Cold War or how some small cities in the US somehow decide everyone's political future. But I didn't think of this as learning about another world.I was just curious. So when my school announced an exchange program to the US, I applied not because I wanted to see t ...

I would standing here as content creator with more than six lakh followers. I would have check your medical record for signs of delirium. When we see the successful people, we see the numbers, subscribers, followers, we see the awards, we see the applause, but we don't see the 2 a.m. recording. We don't see here before upload here before pressing upload button. We don't see failure. Don't see the hard work.Don't see the doubts. Today I will be talking about the unseen part. The journey behind behind the eve ...

Dr. . Michelle Maer. That's what my email signature says.And that is what a decade of work, research, and more captain field nights than I'd care to admit say. But when I introduced myself like that to a wellrespected business leader, he flinched. I wouldn't say that if I were you.You're going to intimidate people. Nobody wants to do a business with a know-it-all. I laughed.I thought he was kidding. I mean, come on. Who would be intimidated by a woman who spent her 20s chasing down citations at the library ...

Hi, my name is Jose Ortega and thank you so much for being here today. I'm going to tell you a story, one that's not from a textbook, but from the soils of my own life, of the dirt roads, the sunburnt skies, and a long shadow that was casted of a small West Texas city or town, some might say. My mother, she immigrated from Mexico with nothing but a prayer in her heart and grit in her hands. And she picked melons in Pacus, Texas. She worked the land as if the land owned or something. My father, he was a cons ...

When I was 8 years old, I pushed a little patch boat into the Pacific Island. The sail was old, the wood was also old, and the salt stung my eyes. Within the safety of the reef, I could hear the waves breaking against the hole.Slow, steady, ancient. And in that stillness, I felt something bigger than me. The ocean was endless.I didn't know it then, but I was starting to learn what my ancestors knew. That courage doesn't come from what you own, but from what you remember. We live in a world that tells us suc ...

Hi everyone. When I think about what today's culture calls strength, I think about explosions. I think about um Marvel movies where Chris Evans only cries once in the 10 years he's been involved in them. Um yet um in the movies that have been popular these days in Star Wars in Marvel movies the most highest grossing films of the 2010s it's um sorry um power power means control and the strongest people um tend to hold things together um it amids chaos and I believe that for a long time. I believe that streng ...

So, um, there I was in an old Soviet train h hurtling eastward somewhere in Czechoslovakia. For some reason, there were chickens running around and the thugs in the aisle are having a slap fight. It was 1993.I didn't have my passport and I was on the wrong train. And I just remember thinking, this is going to make such a great story. There's something about stories.What would we be without stories. Um, today I'm going to talk to you guys about the purpose of stories, the power, the absolute necessity of sto ...

Good morning, Mountain View High School. It's a privilege to be here with you today. I actually raised my family in Sunnyville and Mountain View.So, coming back so much fun. You guys are growing, progressing, changing, and it's fun to see. So, as the intro talked about, um I spend my life focusing on creating connections with people, all kinds of people, no matter what, no matter where.And I love it. It is a passion. And so uh today I want to show you some images of connection from my life but then explain ...