I don't belong here. I mean, I belong here on this little red spot right now in front of you. At least that's what my daughter and curator Osa says. not feel like I belong here in front of a talented group of people, educated professionals, talented students trying to tell you about what I know and what you should learn. I feel like an impostor. I feel like that frequently in my adult life. I felt like it as a teacher. I felt like it as a coach. And now for this particular evening, I'm going to feel like it ...

Thank you. When I was 7 years old, all I wanted to do was to ride my bike and play with my toys. And I had lots of them because my dad made sure that I got what I wanted for Christmas and for my birthday. may seem like a normal childhood, but growing up in Nigeria, that was not the case. By Nigerian standards, we lived a privileged life. My dad, a top civil servant, made sure we had a beautiful home. We were safe, comfortable, and lacked nothing. Then one day I was riding my bike in the neighborhood when my ...

I walked into the living room and I heard the most awful sound. It was a voice I just couldn't make sense of. Slow, stupid. It was like nails down a blackboard. Imagine the horror when I realized that voice was mine. I was eight or nine years old and I was visiting some male cousins in Dunigal and they loved two things more than anything. The latest gadget and making fun of their English cousin. So, they'd hidden a recorder and they'd captured my voice and now they were playing it back. They thought it was ...

Halo semuanya, apa kabar. Sehat-sehat ya. Perjalanan saya dalam dunia perfilman cukup panjang.Di umur 18, saya pertama kali memenangkan award sebagai sutradara untuk film pendek internasional di festival film KS. Di umur 24 saat saya mulai lelah membuat film pendek, saya enggak sengaja masuk ke ruangan yang isinya adalah Hanung Brahamo, ada Eres Prakasa, Joko Anwar, Timo Cayanto, dan Gari Nugroho. Dan di situ saya nekat pitch film saya.Lalu selama 2 tahun saya menambah koneksi saya di industri film dan perg ...

[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 ...

[Music] Please give a warm welcome to Sua Imran Motin. These nerves, not you guys, me. Well, the reason I bring that up is because this is a very familiar feeling.I remember standing in front of my class as a first year medical student, white coat buttoned, stethoscope around my neck, surrounded by prospective doctors. I recall feeling like I'm included amongst the healthc care of America, the future, right. But the distinct discomfort of being an impostor overcame me inescapably, I thought, how did I get h ...

[Applause] You know, this is weird. After so many years as an opera singer standing on stage, I'm still nervous. Every time I do it, I'm nervous.And if you had seen me on a stage like this a few years ago, you would have seen a different person. You would have seen Zandra Yanka, the accomplished opera singer, confident, polished, upright posture in front of 2,000 people or 100 people, ready for the spotlight. But you wouldn't have seen a woman admitting that she's nervous.And you wouldn't have seen a woman ...