We live in a culture of performance, speed, and constant comparison. But what if true innovation begins when we slow down? In “Stop to Live: The Invisible Rhythm of the Marathon,” Isabel Silva shares how long-distance running taught her something unexpected: stopping is not weakness. It is a strategy. Through the discipline of marathon training, she discovered how repetition fuels creativity, how rest becomes performance, and how slowing down reconnects us with our biological rhythm in a hyper-digital world ...

Before we start, take a moment and look around at this room. Look around right now. It's not a joke. It's not a test.Just look around. Look at the walls, the ceiling, the light, the sound. How do you feel right now.focused, relaxed, stressed, or energized. Let me ask you another question. Have you ever noticed that in some rooms you just can't concentrate.Like trying to relax in a doctor's waiting room that feels like a prison cell. You know what I mean, right. But seriously, isn't it strange.We spend 90% o ...

Now for the next two minutes, I would like you to lay back on your seat and listen to my voice. Please close your eyes and focus on your breathing. You inhale from your nose. You exhale from your mouth.You're more focused, relaxed once again. Inhale. Exhale.Feel more energetic. Once more. Inhale.Exhale. And now that you are focused, I want you to think what you did yesterday. See it like a movie in your mind.You got out of bed. You woke up. You had your breakfast.You went to work. You had your lunch. You ha ...

[music] [cheering] Manalamkum. Whenever you talk about happiness, it gives you an impression. It is something luxurious. It is something which we are not supposed to follow and we don't own it.So probably you will have an idea today that yes happiness can be attainable and it is there you are not probably able to see it. So when I started my my journey of medical sciences, I found that there was no happiness in my patients during that journey and the amount of work which I was doing was devoid of happiness. ...

One time I was asked to describe my mom in one word and I said champion. And then I watched my four sisters faces as we realized that all five of us without having talked to each other ahead of time had picked the exact same word cuz my mom Cindy was a champion. But literally, her sports trophies filled an entire room.I swear if you gave that woman a ball or a stick, she would come home a winner. But more than that, my mom championed other people. When I started my own business, I remember her saying, "Oh, ...

[music] [music] [music] Inside this box is something that many of us were never fully taught to understand, let alone celebrate. It was left out of the textbooks, the classrooms and upbringing. The clitoris pure.Yeah. She is purely built for pleasure and it's the most forgotten organ in the female body. And not because it's small, but because society decided it didn't matter.And yet, it's the key to women's well-being, empowerment, and healing. It's a symbol for women's health, for education, and for gender ...

When will life matter. When will life matter far more than profits. When will be the right time we begin to mainstream the health and life of humanity over making gains at the expense of human life.Over 70 years ago in community crude oil was first struck in commercial quantity. This liquid black gold the people of the Niger Delta were made to believe was going to transform their lives, their livelihoods and make the Niger Delta region just like one of the most advanced cities or regions of the world 70 yea ...

[applause] [cheering] [applause] I grew up around chronic illness. Not the kind that comes and goes, but the kind that lingers, defines dinner conversations and quietly shapes family's expectations. It seemed like everyone believed that illness was inevitable and that diagnosis was destiny and we didn't have the power to change it.But at the same time, I was training as an athlete. Every day, I was learning how to fuel, how to recover, how to push my limits and track progress. And I couldn't reconcile how o ...

My love for nature began close to home. In the woods behind my house, gardening with my mom, playing catch with my dad until sunset, making snowmen with my brother, and playing in the creek behind my neighbor's house. But to understand what I'm about to share with you today, I had to travel far from home.This started when I was 11 years old and I went on a three-day canoe trip in northern Wisconsin as a child of a mother who said her idea of camping was being at a hotel with no towels. This was my first tim ...

[music] As I watched my grandparents' health rapidly deteriorate as they approached age 70, I was appalled at how the world and the medical system at large sat by in absolute complacency accepting this as normal. Year after year, more medications, more fatigue, more declining health, all dismissed as just a part of aging. But something inside of me refused to believe that growing old had to mean growing sick.I was young, determined, and deeply motivated by my love and admiration for my grandparents, two of ...