A collage with three polaroid-style images hanging on a clothesline under the phrase “Hiding is having a moment!” Left: TIME100 Health Dinner panel (May 2025). Center: NYTimes Advertiser Perspective article titled The Moment…I Stopped Hiding and Began to Lead (July 2025). Right: Mel Robbins Podcast with text “You’re not defined by your worst moment” (July 2025).

Hiding Is Having a Moment.

Lately, I’ve been noticing hiding everywhere, at a dinner with TIME, splashed across a full-page ad in The New York Times, and in a candid conversation on Mel Robbins’ podcast. You’ve been spotting it too, sending me articles, podcasts, and movie scenes (keep them coming). Hiding—and unhiding—are everywhere. Once you start noticing it, you can’t…