Torrey Schindler

When in doubt, champagne is always the answer ✨ Fins Up 🐬 Swiftie 🫶🏻 Boy Mama 💙 Tampa, FL

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Asking a pregnant lady to arrive to an ultrasound with a full bladder and then making them wait around for the appointment is cruel and unusual punishment...

[holly⸆⸉❤️‍🔥☁️ @itsmeholll]

the whole tl:

[Rajvi @rajvishah30]

today someone in office said that “worrying is the worst way to use your imagination” and that’s easily the best thing Ive heard all week

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

when i was in elementary school i really thought opening TIME CAPSULES would be a much bigger part of my adult life

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

This speech will go down as one of the best written and spoken by Jeff Daniel. These words are as important and as relevant today as when he said them.

[Madonna Lately! @MadonnaLateIy]

Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter performing “Like a Prayer” at #coachella 2026

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This line hits 10x harder when you know the backstory of who said it.

Alysa Liu just won the first American women’s Olympic figure skating gold in 24 years. Two days ago. She’s 20.

She became the youngest U.S. women’s national champion at 13. Won two senior titles by 14. Landed the first quadruple jump by an American woman. By every external metric, she’d already won.

Then at 16, she quit. Her father said she was “traumatized” and “wouldn’t go near the ice rink.” She’d been dropped off at the rink since age 5, told what to do, what to eat, what music to skate to. Eleven years of elite performance without a single year of agency.

A ski trip brought her back. In January 2024, she went skiing for the first time and felt an adrenaline rush she hadn’t felt since leaving skating. She got on the ice that same month, landed a double axel and triple salchow like she’d never left.

The Alysa Liu who returned is a structurally different athlete than the one who left. She picks her own music. She designs her own costumes. She controls her training load. Her coach said before she was “dropped off and told what to do.” Now everything is collaborative. She fired her own father from the operation.

The word doing all the work in that quote is “I.” She chose the struggle this time. The version of her that grinded from age 5 to 16 under someone else’s plan collapsed at the Olympics, finishing sixth. The version that walked away, got her driver’s license, cuddled her cat, attended birthday parties, and then voluntarily returned? Olympic champion in 22 months.

Every burned-out founder, athlete, and overachiever should study this timeline. Agency was the only variable that changed. Same athlete, same coach, same sport. Add ownership, subtract obligation, and a sixth-place finisher becomes a gold medalist.

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

This is awesome: The Florida Senate has passed the Teddy Bridgewater Act, allowing high school coaches to use up to $15k of their own funds to support student-athletes.

The bill allows middle and high school coaches to use up to $15k of their own funds to support student-athletes with food, transportation, and recovery services.

Teddy has changed the world for the better 👏

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: American skier Lindsey Vonn says she has no regrets after her crash, tells her supporters that "life is too short not to take chances on yourself."

"I tried. I dreamt. I jumped."

"I hope if you take away anything from my journey, it's that you all have the courage to dare greatly."

Read her full statement below:

"Yesterday, my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would. It wasn't a story book ending or a fairy tail, it was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it. Because in Downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury can be as small as 5 inches.

I was simply 5 inches too tight on my line when my right arm hooked inside of the gate, twisting me and resulted in my crash. My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever.

Unfortunately, I sustained a complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly.

While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets. Standing in the starting gate yesterday was an incredible feeling that I will never forget. Knowing I stood there having a chance to win was a victory in and of itself. I also knew that racing was a risk.

It always was and always will be an incredibly dangerous sport.

And similar to ski racing, we take risks in life. We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don't achieve the dreams we know we could have. But that is also the beauty of life; we can try.

I tried. I dreamt. I jumped.

I hope if you take away anything from my journey it's that you all have the courage to dare greatly. Life is too short not to take chances on yourself. Because the only failure in life is not trying.

I believe in you, just as you believed in me."

[a16z @a16z]

Northwood Space CEO Bridgit Mendler's advice to founders: "Be more ambitious than you think you should."

"You'd be surprised how quickly things change and how quickly things develop."

"If you're setting out to use your precious time in your life building something, build something big."

"Choose something meaningful. It's going to take up so much time and so much of your life energy to build. Do something you care about."

@bridgitmendler @NorthwoodSpace

[JayJay ᥫ᭡ @Jameca2011]

I’m a mother 24/7, but when I lay my head down at night, I’m just a girl in her 30s trying to figure it all out.

[Sara Schonfeld @SaraSchon]

my workout instructor just said “you do hard shit all the time for other people. for your boss. for your friends. for your family. now’s the time to do hard shit for YOU” best advice I’ve ever gotten while running 11 mph

[Andrea D. Huberwoman, Ph.D. @thegenesisbl0ck]

Newborns are so funny because they’ll be grunting out LOUD in their sleep for like 30 minutes, then make a massive fart and then sleep so peacefully you have to double check if they’re still alive.

[Cooper Mitchell - HomeGymGuy @homegymcoop]

Incredibly overlooked, yet massive ROI investment for parents: building a home gym.

[jack rabbot’s raised eyebrow (aka dibs) @dibs_on_pitt]

I think the Pitt should be like the bachelor and bachelorette. Two seasons a year - one for night shift one for day shift - with overlapping story lines but the other shift only usually shows up for handoff so actors have a break

[New Heights @newheightshow]

Matt Damon gave us some of the most emotional parenting advice we’ve ever got on this show

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

“Can I bring my baby to the interview?”

The message came in at 11 PM:

“Hi, I have an interview with you tomorrow at 2 PM. My childcare fell through. Can I bring my 8-month-old? I understand if you need to reschedule.”

Old me would have rescheduled.
Unprofessional. Distraction. Red flag.

New me replied:
“Absolutely. See you tomorrow.”

She showed up with her baby on her hip.
She apologized three times before even sitting down.

Ten minutes in, the baby started crying.
She tried to soothe him while answering questions.
She apologized again.

I stopped the interview and said:

“Hey. You’re managing a fussy baby, answering complex questions, and staying calm under pressure. That’s literally the job. Handling chaos while staying professional. You’re already proving you can do it.”

Her eyes filled with tears.

We hired her.

She’s been with us for a year now.
The most reliable team member we have.

Why?

Because when you’re used to handling a screaming infant at 3 AM and still showing up to work the next day, workplace stress feels like nothing.

Working parents, especially mothers, are some of the most organized, efficient, and resilient people you’ll ever hire.

Yet we lose them because our hiring processes are built for people with zero caregiving responsibilities.

If your interview process can’t accommodate a parent facing a childcare issue, you’re not filtering for professionalism.

You’re filtering for privilege.

[HBO Max @hbomax]

And so it begins.

Season 2 of the Emmy Award-winning Outstanding Drama Series #ThePitt premieres January 8 on HBO Max.

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

Absolutely love this from Old Man Rivers..

Anybody can do nothing.. DON’T BE SCARED TO GO FOR IT

[USF Football @USFFootball]

It's showtime. 🤘