Jennifer Moss Quotes

Heart-forward means a few things,' she says. 'I can be a caring person and really support your team and your people without being a pushover. It also means that I always want to leave people better than when I found them.

I went through a period where I was just the boss' daughter for a long time, yet my brother didn't have that stigma of being just the boss' son. And it pissed me off. That's when I became more aware of what and how I was projecting things,

I wanted to chase serial killers like they do on the Criminal Minds television show. I was really into that because I competed in speech in high school, and one of my topics was DNA profiling and criminal profiling,

I'm thinking about the stitches' repetitive structures as being an abstraction of the repetitive structures in nature.

Our parents taught us about hard work and consistency. They showed up. They were driven, even in the hard years, the really good years and the completely average years,” she says. “They showed me that you dive in during the spring, you kick ass, then you get to enjoy your summers and winters. And take the time, get offsite, use your vacation days. I’m still not very good at that part.”

I agreed with them at the time that my brother, who is younger than me, was a better choice to lead the company,” Jennifer says. “He was more level-headed, he was less emotional and he was more consistent. So that was the plan.”

I tackle hard things. And if it's really hard, I just dig my feet in a little bit deeper so that I'm completely anchored. I'm not afraid to do hard things at all,

“I think it was always assumed that you graduate SCAD and move to L.A. or New York or another big city both for work and for the opportunity for community.,

I’m not a religious person but I find something bigger than myself and something inspiriting in nature. I see connections – the same patterns that are on a microscopic scale are on a macroscopic scale, and the way the world has organized itself into these super-efficient and beautiful patterns. I love reading science books about physics and nature and learning amazing little details about the natural world. My first instinct as an artist is to be representational, but if I abstract my work, it pulls the viewer to spend a little more time with it.”

The book really is to help leaders understand that there are these very fundamental important pro-social traits that we need to be adopting within our cultures, to move the needle and to give employees time to heal,

I will never forget the day we lost our largest customer in 2017. It was Feb. 16 at 2 p.m. when he walked in,' she recalls. 'We were doing 30% of our business with this one customer at the time. And they walked in and said, 'We're liquidating the business. I hope we told you soon enough.' And my dad sat there and said, 'I've got 70% of the seed planted. No, you didn't tell us soon enough.' So I hit the ground running. We were in the middle of launching a wholesale houseplant program at the time, so I was already on the road trying to pitch that program,

They said, ‘You always bring me step five and you make me figure out one through four. If you could please include me so that I can be a part of all five steps.’ They were absolutely right. I was giving them directives without the right tools. I've really listened to those moments because if I'm managing one person like that, am I managing all people like that?”

I wasn't projecting what I wanted to project. I wanted to come across calm, put together, direct and driven,' she says. 'So I really worked on changing my responses and my reactions. I was seeing a life coach, Brendon Burchard, who wrote High Performance Habits. It changed my life.

Leaders are sort of looking to move on,” she said. “There's been some great things that have happened – flexibility and remote work and more conversations around mental health in the workplace, destigmatizing burnout … huge investments made in mental health and wellbeing, but we're still feeling like they're not being actualized at work.”

I outperformed the expectation, I launched myself and I earned my spot,