So let's see a lot of hard work. I would say, Um, I would say the beginning of where my mindset began was in high school. Worried a lot of marketing classes. I had an amazing teacher, Mrs Campbell, uh, who taught us a lot about marketing, and I learned how to make my resume in that class. And I had always had a desire to work. I probably started out as young as 10 baby sitting. And then, um, you know, as soon as I could have, you know, kind of ah, job in high school. I did. I did everything from being a hostess to I applied for Nordstrom with in my marketing class. Nordstrom's had this blast brass plum board where you were taught to be an entrepreneur, and you you applied and got selected to be part of the breast from board, which I did. And then I also worked at Nordstrom's as well, um, I also worked the later part of high school at Equifax after schools. Uh, you're familiar with Equifax. So, uh, that's your credit. So I made lots of calls and verifying information, invalidating information with Equifax, so I always worked. I remember, I always had summer jobs. At one point during high school, I think I was a bank teller over the summer. One year. Um, you know, I just did a variety of things, like I said, hosting a French restaurant. So I took it, had a variety of jobs. Uh, so I think having that work ethic to begin with matters a lot. I think that in order to figure out what you want to do in life, you need to do a lot of things and figure out what you enjoy. And so I definitely encourage people to have jobs, even if they don't think that they, um you know, our exactly what their crew path is. There's a lot that goes into figuring that out just by doing jobs and having that work ethic. Um, then I Let's see, when often I knew in high school that I wanted Teoh have my own business. I just didn't know what that would look like. Uh, so I went to George Mason University and I worked full time, so I put myself through college, working at a very high end boutique where it's old. A lot of high end linens, including sheet sets that costs as much as $1000 or more. So it's very expensive retail. Uh, it was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot, and I hustled hard, and I put myself through college, working full time and going to school full time. Eso, though, for some of the things that built up my story, Uh, before. Actually I forgot to mention before, even before I went to work that fine linen shop. I actually spent a year working at the C. I. A Texan Marriott and was their cash manager there. And so that was interesting, uh, having grown up in the D C area. So I had that opportunity to do that, and that was interesting. I also, um, you know, did some work at a travel agency before I worked for the fine linen shop. So I've done a lot of different things, and I think that goes by figuring out who and what you want to dio. Um, so for me, college was important. I recommend, you know, at this point I could have changed my idea regarding college. I would recommend going to college. If you are going to study Step if you're not ready, Standby. Recommend taking the money that you would otherwise spend on college and starting a business. And if that doesn't make sense for you, I recommend, um, maybe doing an apprenticeship somewhere where you could learn hands on how to do something. So I have shifted away that I don't think college is necessarily for everyone, but I definitely sink. You know, you got to think through what what you enjoy and part of figuring that out is having jobs. Um, so, lots of interesting experiences, Um, I planned at at the beginning of getting out of college, I plan to open up my own little boutique, and I I applied with the FBI to get S B A loan. At that time, I couldn't get a bank to loan me the money at 21 years old, even though, or I was 22 even though I had a house. And, um, I was married at the time, but they I think that they looked at me as this young woman and they had no desire to lend me of the $100,000 I needed to start my company. And that was very discouraging, but I never gave up on the dream. I just think that was not the right path for me of the time. But I always knew that eventually I was gonna start man Company s O then went to go work for a national construction company. And that was very interesting work to me. We did a lot of work in the federal government space, and that was fascinating work. Uh, and then eventually construction fell apart. So I had to stay nimble. And that's when I got more into tech after construction. Philibert, and so that I've been in have been in a text based for a number of years on, and finally about just under about 3.5 years ago, I felt ready to go off on my own completely. Um, I was kind of building towards that. And after spending a good 16 years in corporate America, I felt I felt confident enough that I would have clients and with about two clients and hands, I left my corporate job at Utah's largest earlier, which is ih c and I had a nice management role and I managed a nice teeth man had the comfort of, um, having a amazing benefits and a six figure salary and a pension even. But I walked away and risked it all in order to start my own company. And that was really important for me because, um, I would say, my spirit, I'm naturally an entrepreneur, and corporate America is one thing. But at the end of the day, I would rather work 15 hours a day for myself, then work eight hours a day in corporate America.

When I launched my company, I had, like I said, I had lined up to plants. So I felt ready and prepared. Teoh start my own company. But all while doing so I was putting together and figuring out what my logo is gonna be A and reaching out and finding the company build my website and registering. You know, his government contractor and finding my way and navigating through all of it and getting insurance. And, um, just everything in your business cards and everything you have to do. There's so much you have to do to start your own business. So those first few weeks were exhausting. And but they were also exhilarating and exciting because once again, I was building my own dreams. So for me, that was what was most exciting, but certainly lots of work and lots of navigating and writing out my business plan and everything else. So, um, but yeah, it was It was definitely tiring, but exciting.

there's There's so much I mean, we have our own. We have an applicant tracking system. We have a CRM. We have, Of course, your outlook sweet. And all the Microsoft office tools. Um, so all of these are necessary? Important? Of course. Lengthen. I was one of the 1st 1 million Lincoln users when I came out. I think I've got about 30,000 connections on lengthen. So that's a regular tool I use regularly all the time. Um, so yes, ofcourse, huge. And And during this time, I've, um I've launched my company. We are a dub shop. We do big data. We do machine learning. Um, you know, we dio cybersecurity work as eso all these types of work. So as part of that, it's a variety of tools that are utilised by our consultants. Um, you know, for a i machine learning machine vision, You know, a lot of python developers and such, um, but a lot of programming, because it's word that software space. Um you know, I I also, um, apart. I'm a partner. Um, ubiquity dot io. So I own a percentage of that company and we are a Blockchain company. Are we do. Blockchain is a service that is our product and our self. Where we record resident residential commercial title to the Blockchain. Um so yeah, lots of tools involves I like I said, Anything in stem Anything in I t those the careers I always encourage people to get involved with and constantly encouraging people to leave dead end career of where they've topped out and either go back to school or go to a boot camp and learn the skills said they need to be successful in this market, please.