I used to think my curiosity was a little excessive.

I know how the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel was built. I know how many times the Centaur upper stage of a rocket has flown. I know that BIPOC women are being sterilized against their will right now, often without informed consent. None of that is exactly small talk. But it's how my mind works, and it took me a while to understand why.

When I decided to start providing parents and caregivers with information about bullying and confidence building, I made a deliberate choice. I would speak to people the way I'd speak to a family member who needed to feel empowered, not the way a pamphlet talks to a stranger. That choice didn't come from a marketing strategy. It came from my own childhood.

As a kid, my mother needed resources that exist today but simply weren't available to her then. And as I grew into adulthood, I kept discovering information I'd never had access to growing up. Every single time, the same question showed up: why had no o...