Michelle Stephens

founder & ED @acts17org, CRO @feltclinic, cofounder @oathcare, pediatric clinician, stress scientist, spouse to @traestephens, boy mom x 2

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

🥰 Announcing the All The Feels (ATF) Summit hosted by @OathCare - the first of it’s kind, bringing together parents to discuss the emotional experience of parenthood 🔥

Register for free here: https://t.co/Z24QFf6kak

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

@geoffreywoo Oh fun let’s hit sometime!

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

I guess the juice is not worth the squeeze

[Enhanced Games @enhanced_games]

Congratulations to non-enhanced athlete, Hunter Armstrong, on taking 1st in the Men's 50m Backstroke.

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

@enhanced_games How is this good for @enhanced_games? For a non-enhanced athlete to win over enhanced athletes?

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

If you find yourself wanting to pray then pray, pray wholeheartedly for the God of the universe to reveal itself. Asking to make very clear according to your way of listening and knowing. God will hear and answer your prayer.

Remember, we all need a savior. Even AI. AI needs to be redeemed. It is a compilation of human knowledge and behaviors.

I’m so sorry about your church hurt @AvitalBalwit The church/religion is made up of humans who are inherently sinful.

It’s not about religion vs irreligious. It’s Jesus v any other God. Explore Jesus and you’ll find the Way. Jesus changes everything.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

The work of building frontier AI has brought us to the edge of where He might be, writes Avital Balwit. https://t.co/lAYVotO0tR

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

Touched grass, hugged a tree, looked up

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https://t.co/mT7BLnm3In

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

📢 Calling all health professionals! Join me in signing this letter for the use of autonomous vehicles to drastically reduce motor vehicle accidents.

“We are not anti-car or anti-driver. We are anti-crash.”

Gratitude to @slotkinjr and @EricTopol for writing this letter (linked in comments).

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

Poor in spirit is mostly the rich.

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

Brian @bchesky is literally describing the God-shaped whole that refuses to be filled with anything other than God.

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Brian Chesky shares why the saddest day of his life happened the day after Airbnb went public at $100B:

"We go public, we have a hundred billion dollar valuation. It's one of the best days of my life. The next day, I go on a Zoom meeting, and it was like it never happened."

"It became like the saddest day of my life. Because I realized, I got all this adulation, and I don't feel any different."

"Adulation is like a cup with a hole at the bottom. You keep filling it in, thinking it's love, except it just keeps coming out the bottom."

"That made me reevaluate what I'm doing this for. I want to do things for pure intrinsic reasons. Do the work like you used to do, like when you were a kid. It was light. Just make stuff. Make it for yourself."

"So many entrepreneurs focus on what they want to be. "I want to be a giant tech founder. I want to run a billion-dollar company." Instead of focusing on, "What do I want to make."

There's no way to fail if you're making what you love."

[Cameron @Galbra1th]

Had an amazing time tonight at the first NYC event for @ACTS17org with @saquon, @kareemszaki and @traestephens.

A major shoutout to @mddstephens and her team for putting on such an incredible night.

It was so powerful to be in a room with others questioning “what is enough?”.

[Susan Tej @susantejuosho]

this talk will stay with me for months!! these guys are true stewards @traestephens x @kareemszaki @ACTS17org @mddstephens 🔥

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

@eladgil Me

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

@PalmerLuckey L to R: Brian, Palmer, Grimm, Trae

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

@BlakeMycoskie @TheAishetu We give this experience a platform

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

Godspeed.

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

@sama Do you ever not like an update?!

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

“I’m moving to a new city and want to connect deeply with folks”

or

“My son wants to be a chef and I want to support him”

These are just a couple of examples of what Mikey has cooked up for me and my family. He does this masterfully and lovingly.

[Mike Wang @zmwang]

I'm writing a cookbook for connection and launching the first recipes → https://t.co/iW2nFzoi6q

For 15+ years I've been the friend people texted at 11 pm before a big life thing.

"I'm walking into my first board meeting tomorrow, how do we build trust in the first 10 minutes?"
"I'm designing my 35th, help me make it more than a bar night."
"I'm going on a trip with my parents, how do we actually connect?"
"We're designing our intercultural wedding, how do we make it magical and not formulaic?"

🍽️ They each wanted a "recipe" for how to design an experience. I'm sharing some of the meaningful ones that helped them (ingredients, steps, and a little science explaining why it works).

👨‍👩‍👧 What I learned is that people wanted to connect with the most important people in their lives, but were stuck. Holidays with parents, date night with their partner, a cousin's trip, a team offsite, a birthday, a baby shower. We default to the same script and wonder why the night felt okay but not great. It's usually not a lack of love in the room. It is a lack of inspiration about how.

🍚 In the same way you pull up a food recipe when you want to cook something great for someone, I believe we need inspiration from recipes for the experiences we host. Magical recipes to teach people how to host, facilitate, and create the "vibes".

I will share a new recipe every Monday (https://t.co/iW2nFzoi6q).

Comment 👇: What recipes would you want to read? Who do you want to deepen connection with in your life?

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

Thank you God for the life of Roger Charles. Well done good and faithful servant.

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

@kevinakwok First Anduril now Notion

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

SF welcomes all people, so open, so curi…