Share any defining moments in your personal and professional journey that influenced your drive to embrace and share your authentic self.
I feel like I always shared authentic parts of myself through my work but I always had a firewall between my personal and professional lives that I held back on sharing. While I still believe in holding some things private, that wall has broken down. When I had started caregiving for my father then had my own health challenges and needed to take time off and explain why, my listeners and viewers showed me how sharing those kinds of things didn’t come at a cost to me (or my career), but actually helped me through those hard times and how what I shared may have even helped them.