In Lacy’s view, to make the impossible possible, to make all our wanting plausible, we must journey deep into our own minds to remove blocks—and then replace those blocks with concrete examples of people who represent our biggest dreams for ourselves. These people serve as our “expanders,” shedding light on a realizable path. It’s a process diametrically opposed to how so many of us have been conditioned to think: It’s her or me, there’s room for only one of us, scarcity, scarcity, scarcity. In Lacy’s world, it’s She has it, and so I can have it too.

