Four women from different backgrounds in conversation beside the words, “The world grew bigger when I stopped assuming my experience was the only one.”

I thought everyone grew up the way I did. Saw the same things.

Learned the same lessons. Carried the same fears.

They didn’t.

The more I listened to other people’s stories, the more I realized how many different ways there are to experience the same world.

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