Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself.

Your style can be an artistic part of your personal leadership journey.

I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.

Trust your instinct. And if you can't tell what your instinct is telling you, learn how to peel back the noise in your life that is keeping you from hearing it.

In high school, I interned at my mother's restaurant and learned the small-business ropes. It was really instructive and taught me to switch contexts quickly, as I contributed to everything from managing the reception desk to building their website.

Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.

I've always known I've wanted to build companies that have a social impact.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

You are bigger than your self-doubt. Remind yourself of that each and every day.

You can't value others until you value yourself.

You're a smart person. You're going to figure out where you can be more effective and more efficient with your own resources, and that's going to put more of an investment and emphasis on your future.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

Productivity doesn't have to be complicated. It can be easily boosted through a manageable combination of the right tools, resources, and habits to make the most of your time.

I've started to really nurture a bedtime routine, which, for me, starts with caffeine-free tea, usually rooibos or jasmine tea, something soothing, very fragrant, just a reminder to get back to your senses.

Taking care of myself used to be at the bottom of my list, but I'm all about wellness.

I used to be an awful asker. I was the 14-year-old who didn't correct the family I would babysit for when they gave me less money than we had agreed to, because it felt rude and scary.

Having women who are already successful take the leap of faith to help younger women is critical.

I'm nicknaming millennials 'the purpose generation' because we're making so many decisions.

Just displaying your resume online, which LinkedIn lets you do, isn't enough.

Run focus groups. Do whatever you need to do to get 8 to 10 people together in a room and put your product in front of them. Ask them how much they would pay for it and whether they would pay for it. It's really important to get user validation early and often.

Power is ultimately about the energy you emanate from within.

White is hands down my favorite color and the color I wear the most.

Fashion doesn't boost my confidence - rather, it provides a canvas to express or reflect it and whatever is influencing me in my life at the moment.

Education has rules and parameters. Women outperform men when the parameters are clear.

A mentor is someone who is willing to give you advice that isn't in the best interest for them. It takes a real mentor to put you first.

We work more than we do anything else in our lives, but the average person only interacts with four to five colleagues. Outside of that, they don't build that many relationships.

You need to be really great at your job. You need a strong network of peers, and you need a strong network of mentors.

Impostor syndrome, or feeling like a fraud at work, at home, or anywhere else in your life, will probably affect you at some point.

If you're not certain about something, it might mean you should reach out to a person you trust for advice.

When faced with an obstacle or uncertainty in your abilities, use it as an opportunity to grow your talents.

Be the best you can be, but acknowledge that you will make mistakes, and then know which errors to let go of. There will be typos in e-mails, meetings you are late for, daily to-do lists that don't get completed. Cut yourself some slack and, more important, reward yourself along the way.

The big experience of feeling like I jumped off into the deep end was that transition from college into the workforce. There were so many unwritten rules I didn't understand.

The most important thing that I did was to actually take the time to sit down every month and do a review of what I spent and look at it objectively.

As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology.

The genesis of the Thinking Talent app came from wanting to create a way to scale self-discovery with a framework that we, personally, inside of the company, have used really successfully.

Especially in the first 10-15 years, your regular resume is not an authentic representation of you - you don't really have that many notches on your belt, so to speak. In a super-competitive job environment, you need to be able to tell a multi-dimensional story about who you are as a person.

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'

As individuals, we professional women need to learn how to raise our hands and ask for more throughout our careers.

You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.

A skill is something that you aren't inherently talented at and that isn't an effortless action, the way your thinking talents might be, but is something you can become excellent at nonetheless.

I have a million career weaknesses, and although it's uncomfortable, I believe that authentically acknowledging and working through your vulnerability is more powerful than the delusion of perfection.

I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, 'Where do I want to be?' but 'What do I want to learn from this?' Use that opportunity to be a sponge.

If what you're doing today is moving you closer to your passion, then that's wonderful.

There's this pressure to perform in your twenties - I think it comes from this whole generational foreshadowing that presumes there will be a whole other layer of things to worry about in your thirties.

Your energy is a barometer for your passion.

I wish I had known the value of interning at a startup before starting my own. There is so much I could have learned on somebody else's dime in a much lower-risk environment.

I have always been fascinated by entrepreneurship.

My first college internship was at Sony Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles. My second internship was at McKinsey & Company as a consultant - that turned into my first job after graduation.

I'm very close to my family.