So whenever you first originally had this idea, how did you create this idea of creating a global network? Where was the start of it? Where did it come from?
Well, I was a international award winning hotel manager. And I love to meet people I've always worked kind of in a service based industry where you meet a lot of people. I worked at a movie theater and restaurants and at DSW and you know, hotels, you know, I ended up working in hotels and at a hotel, you meet 200 new people every
day. And I loved it. I love meeting new people and talking to new people. And, you know, you know, who are you? Where are you from? What do you do? And how can I help? Right. And then the pandemic happened. I got laid off from my hotel job, my hotel career kind of completely went away. And I became an entrepreneur. But I still needed that I still needed my fix, I still needed to meet new people every day. And so I got online and I started to go to these online networking groups. And I just attended them because honestly, I liked it. And then I started hosting my own groups and suffering from a lot of the similar problems that other entrepreneurs for
suffering with, you know, isolation and having to do everything all alone, having to have all the answers, wanting to collaborate with people. But how do you do that? Because we all have our own businesses, we have to promote our own stuff, we can't promote somebody else at the detriment of ourselves, right. So over the last literally three years, I've not only been building the community, but finding the tools, finding the software, creating the system to go out there and do what you know, I kind of set out to do, which is, you know, everybody, I think, not everybody, but people want to run their
own business, like I said, but there's, and there's a lot of positives of that. There's also a lot of negatives of that.