Kaitlin sits down with Emily Montgomery, the founder of HiLU, the first pro-social app for sharing and collecting words of affirmation. Emily shares her inspiring journey from being a lawyer to embarking on a transformative 600-mile walk across Spain, which ultimately led her to create HiLU.

Connect with Emily & HiLU:
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app.teamhilu.com
@teamhilu 

Quotes

"I think a lot of my career changes have been me becoming more myself over the years."

"I really felt this pull to share what I had learned along the way in... my healing journey, right? And the things that I had learned from mentors."

"The journey was about how I was alone, but I was not alone... I had so much support."

"I think those are related. It's an interesting topic of love and light and kindness and where does the rubber actually hit the road, right?"

"Kindness is verbal appreciation expressed repeatedly over time and in a sustained way."

"Kindness is an action... it's so important to get out of our heads and actually get that expression out there."

"I believe we can all be these kind of angels on Earth where we almost metabolize that negativity and we can just speak to the positive in a person."

"All you're really needing is warmth and sincerity."

"The world will be a better place when we learn how to [speak to the positive in others] more often."


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Full transcript: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2247/9287/files/Kindness_Is_Podcast_with_Emily_2024-04-02_09_42_GMT-4_-_Transcript.docx?v=1712426831