"For those of us not in immediate danger of losing our livelihoods, our lives, our ability to move through the world, this is the moment we need to step up. Right now, more than anything, we all have to be firestarters. Light the match."
Luvvie Ajayi Jones is an author, speaker, and influencer who tells stories that inspire and dare people to live more boldly. She started her career as a blogger and in 2016, published her first book, I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual, which debuted on the New York Times best-seller list. Her subsequent TED talk, “Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable” has been translated into 23 languages and is in the top 1 percent of TED Talks of all time.
Luvvie and I discuss what spending her formative years in Nigeria taught her about community, how blogging about her passions turned into a career that inspires others to follow their own desires, and why she wrote her new book, Little Troublemaker Defends Her Name, which comes out this spring.
Luvvie is a force of nature who wants all of us to become “professional troublemakers”—people who use their voices to make every room they enter just a little better. She exemplifies courage, summons others’ audacity, and teaches us how to create community. Luvvie is a firestarter.
Preorder Luvvie’s upcoming book: Little Troublemaker Defends Her Name.
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