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What is your fly of how you do what you do?

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I do what I do because I want to help

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the next generation of women to stay in tech,

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thrive in tech and achieve whatever they aspire to achieve.

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And that is the thing that gets me going.

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And believe me, I am an employee in heart, right?

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I was raised in a middle-class family

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and all I knew to do is be an employee.

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And getting from being an employee

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to running my own business is hard.

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And although I've done it for the past four years,

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it's still hard because it goes against

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everything I was raised on and everything I knew how to do.

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So obviously when you do something

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that is kind of not in your nature

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and you're not used to, it's difficult.

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And I have challenges and what keeps me going

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despite challenges and setbacks is having a strong why.

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Because I know that what I'm doing is so impactful.

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Every woman who gives me feedback about how small to big,

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how I was able to make an impact

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gives me motivation and energy to keep on going.

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And it doesn't matter if that woman paid me

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or I just mentored her for free

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because I also do a lot of pro bono.

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So it doesn't matter.

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Every single feedback, even I have my own podcast,

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every woman that I bring to the podcast I interview

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and a lot of them like that was the first time

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they ever spoke in a podcast or publicly.

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So it just makes me so energized and motivated.