Abigail Washburn Quotes

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.

Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

My life is an open pamphlet.

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives.

I feel like the more I share, the more relatable I am.

Talking about your work all the time and to open up, you have to do all that. I have begun to find my fun in that as well.

I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.

We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

Just sharing who you are - there's so much value in that.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.

Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.

Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.