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Where did your vision come from?

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Where did that start?

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What was the originate?

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Honestly, it started for me becoming a mom.

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I have a seven-year-old, almost eight-year-old son at this point, and he's actually autistic.

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He's on the spectrum.

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He is verbal.

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He does struggle in social situations.

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So there are a lot of the more common traits and characteristics that people are aware

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of with autism that he does deal with.

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For me, however, I was already working in L&D, learning and development, when I was

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pregnant with him and when I had him.

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And as he got older and things started to change, and he was diagnosed at around the

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age of four, we started to see that it was hard for him to get services.

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It was hard for him to be supported.

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It was hard for him to really get the things that he needed to get from school and other

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kind of settings.

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And so what we wanted to do was try to create a world, a program through my business where

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people who are adults who are experiencing these same things actually are supported and

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don't have to struggle.

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We had to call school districts and really, really rally to get him support.

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And that's not something that we want people to have to experience in their workplaces,

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where they go to make money and they go to be successful and they go to take care of

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their families.

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It's already stressful enough sometimes at work.

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And so if you're not able to learn, if you're not able to get what you need, it's almost

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an uphill battle that you can't really win.

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Right.

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And to me, it sounds like you are playing a key role in making sure that everybody's

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on the same starting platform at least or getting there.

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Yeah, that is absolutely the goal is to try to make sure that everybody is on as level

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of a playing field as possible when they get started.