Growing up, I had an internal struggle with my body because I was really chubby. My sisters were younger, and they were all skinny and all cute. As a teen, I definitely had, like, an extra 30 pounds of weight.

I was a Tina Turner fan growing up.

I'm here to save someone. I really want to help other people, especially the youth.

Women, we're all coming together.

Never make too good of a deal. It sounds a little counterintuitive, but the deals that are too good of a deal for you in the long run will end up hurting you. A lot of people in our business don't realize that. They think their job is to go in a room and negotiate the highest price.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

There's something about taking emotional and career and relationship humiliations, writing them, acting them out again, but then redeeming them in some way.

At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.