For years, I thought failure was something to avoid; proof that I wasn’t good enough. But looking back, every setback I’ve faced has been the very thing that propelled me forward. From a shy girl in Oroville, California who quit everything that scared her to standing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center watching Space Shuttle Columbia launch, to eventually finding my voice on live tech broadcasts. Each “failure” was a launch pad. Losing my comfort zones forced me to grow.