Thedrum

As the managing editor at Flipboard, Gabriella Schwarz leads a team of news curators to feature the most important stories to the site’s readers — a role that she takes very seriously. She says her inquisitive nature is what led her to become a journalist in the first place — logging in stops at two dissonant destinations: Fox News, then CNN, where she won an Emmy. That curiosity is a search to find the best of people’s stories, something that inspires the Seattle native daily. Schwarz believes strongly that the most important choice a woman can make in life is to be confident, and is something that her mother instilled in her from an early age, a powerful story on its own, which gave her the fortitude to strive and succeed. She spreads the gospel of confidence, forgiveness and self-awareness, a trait that allows for knowing one’s limits, a critical component for well-being and something that can prevent “doing things that you would later regret.” In five years, Schwarz hopes we are talking about success –