I know there’s a lot going on. Seems like it never ends, doesn’t it?

Here are some of my coolest experiences with and learnings from working with global teams over the last few years.

There are all kinds of reasons someone might want to leave a job. No matter the reason, I think it’s important for individuals to show compassion to their employers when they’re ready to move on.

People often ask me what tools we use as an all-remote team, so I thought it could be helpful to list the ones we love here and explain what they do for us.

Every time I think our team has learned everything we can possibly learn about each other, I’m proven wrong. 

Over time—and the more I failed in my journey as a leader and entrepreneur—I began to get more comfortable with stepping into uncertainty and taking riskier moves.

Sometimes, downsizing a company is necessary. While we hope this never happens, if it does, I believe leaders should ask themselves: How can we do this in a compassionate way?

If it weren’t for those surveys in the early days, we would have never grown into the company we are, and I would have never grown into the leader I am.

What would it look like if we could choose the lives we wanted to live without fearing how it would affect our careers?

We all have a part to play in how empowered we can be.

Most of my job involves being paid to address rooms of people—big rooms, small rooms, Zoom rooms—and I know that the energy I bring into those rooms affects the energy of every single person in them.

We hope this will inspire you to take some time of your own to pause and reflect!

Meetings are the best place to build relationships, collaborate, connect, and communicate. But they’re also the easiest way to waste a lot of time (and money).

Ideas don’t just magically come to people. We have to seek out ways to cultivate our creativity and innovation so that we can always be thinking about what's next.

We all have so many demands on our time and energy, and there’s only so much that we can take on.

Feedback is hard, no matter how often you give it. But I do it because I know that it builds trust, clears up misunderstandings, lets people know where they stand, helps people work more efficiently and effectively, and so much more.

My biggest birthday wish is that we don’t lose hope—that even though there are certainly challenges, we as leaders remember that we can make a difference and that that’s always in our control, no matter what.

I don’t think it has to be like this. In fact, I know it doesn’t because our team left behind the 9-to-5 long ago. I believe there’s a better way—and fortunately, I’m far from the only CEO to think so.