Nicolette

“there are mountains growing
beneath our feet
that cannot be contained
all we've endured
has prepared us for this
bring your hammer and fists
we have a glass ceiling to shatter”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“You can’t separate the way you behave when you’re communicating with your spouse from the way you communicate with your co-workers or boss. It’s important to be the same person all day, every day.”
― James A. Autry, The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance

“Is it my job to build a great company," I asked, " or am I really just some sort of emotional babysitter?"

...."This is not babysitting," she said. "It's called management, and it is your job.”
― Kim Malone Scott, Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

“I remember watching an episode of The West Wing about education in America, which the majority of people rightfully believe is the key to opportunity. In it, the fictional president debates whether he should push school vouchers (giving public money to schoolchildren so that they escape failing public schools) or instead focus exclusively on fixing those same failing schools. That debate is important, of course—for a long time, much of my failing school district qualified for vouchers—but it was striking that in an entire discussion about why poor kids struggled in school, the emphasis rested entirely on public institutions. As a teacher at my old high school told me recently, “They want us to be shepherds to these kids. But no one wants to talk about the fact that many of them are raised by wolves.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis