What's your why for getting into it?
Is it just your son or is there more to that?
There is a little more to it.
I was a facilitator at the time that I had him and everything.
And like I said, he wasn't diagnosed until around the age of three or four.
And I think my why was really more of an introspective moment
because ultimately what I started to realize in the company was
we would have people in training, they would struggle,
they would leave, they would do all of these things.
And at some point it became a, well, they just can't cut it kind of thing.
And so we never really looked outside of that into a place of,
you know, maybe it's something we're doing.
And for me, it really became a moment when I had him and all the things were happening
and he was not meeting milestones and we had some suspicions of autism that,
no, the problem is us.
And in a lot of ways, the problem is me.
And that was a very hard thing to really sit with.
Like that is a difficult thing for anybody to sit with.
Now, the problem is me because I'm looking at it through a very neurotypical lens.
I'm looking at it through almost a selfish lens in some ways.
And for me, the why really became or really was stemming from that moment of,
no, the problem is us and we should be better and we can do better.
And in life, I was raised, if you know better, you do better.
I'm from an army family.
So essentially, it's if you know that there's something that needs to be done,
if you know you can do better, go do better.
And I mean, just all of that together really became my life.
Absolutely. It's a crazy jump to take.
And I feel like everybody has that problem whenever it comes to seeing if what is the issue,
if the problem is within yourself or if the problem is outside something you can work with or try and work around.
But if the problem is within yourself, a lot of times people will hit that mental wall.
They're like, no, how am I the problem? I'm never the problem.
I'm perfect in my own eyes. And people a lot of times hit that.
So congratulations on hitting that wall and saying, OK, we need to figure out a way to work around this because I am the problem here.
I congratulate you on that.
Yeah, it's a hard moment.
But I think in business and in life, we've got to get past that if we can,
because it really does hinder a lot of progress for ourselves and for others, really.