Despite being in the field over 15 years, I've never felt so far outside my comfort zone as as palliative care provider as I have felt in the last four months. A worldwide pandemic of a novel virus had me questioning how I communicate prognostic information when uncertainty was one of the few things I was certain about. It also pushed me to have these conversations via telemedicine, something I was previously more than happy to leave as a tool for only outpatient providers. The pandemic and the murder of George Floyd brought to the forefront the systemic racism that permeates our society and my own inadequacies in discussing the trauma that these killings and mistreatment have on black Americans. We grow though when we are pushed outside of our comfort zones. I'm pretty sure Tony Back, the co-founder of VitalTalk, would probably say that I have found my "learning edge". Lucky for me, we have Tony, along with another VitalTalk guru, Wendy Anderson, on today&