• She said coming out of pandemic, she felt like she didn’t know the company anymore- energy among the team was missing (min 35:06): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izJOpdRTe-4
• Becoming the youngest CEO to take the company public made her worse. The world was putting titles such as “youngest CEO”, “celebrated woman” which didn’t sit well with her and made her hit her worst moment. She felt empty and needed to recalibrate (min 38:28): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izJOpdRTe-4
• She said she no longer get hurt by such world descriptions i.e. when the stock significantly fell, she didn’t feel hurt.
• She says she now knows how to compartmentalize (min 0:00) “I was stuck in the same gear for a decade. And I came back and now I know how to shift gears. So even in a day, we could have tough things going on. And I know how to shift out of that gear into the next gear, compartmentalize, have focus, have have clarity, have control over my thoughts.”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D197ynKr7Wc
• She says in the past stint, her own circle and that of the company were one, and that might have been hard for the team and she’s now doing her best to make sure the circles are separated (min 2:32): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D197ynKr7Wc
• Mentioned (in August 2025) that she told her husband yesterday that I am feeling a little burn out (min 4:39). "But if you lose sight of it, they can start to to kind of overlap too much or pull apart too much. So, I like to check in with myself. Even yesterday, I said to my husband, I said, "I think I'm feeling a little bit burnt out." And I just left my phone at home for 2 3 hours. I took a walk. I went with the kids and I felt better afterwards. So now it's like really making sure those circles stay in a healthy position.”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D197ynKr7Wc
• “I have come back a much better CEO” (min 5:21): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D197ynKr7Wc
• “Yeah, I’m less stressed now. Thank God” she said (min 7:19): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D197ynKr7Wc
• She said the Bloomberg article which described Bumble as doing feminist marketing sent her into a very dark place. "And I think that was the beginning of the end of me feeling confident in what I was doing," she said (min 10:25): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW6FRiZ1QOM&t=3s