and I was going, I don't

know if I can do this.

And then you're like, okay, I've got to figure that out whilst I've got a young person.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we returned.

But that's done a lot for me because I do well with extreme accountability.

And, you know, with that, you know, you're talking kind of alluded to areas of growth for you in Daniel exiting, you know, and that financial fluency, like for one is something that, you know, many women don't feel comfortable talking about, like, you know, is that something that you had to take more ownership on within the business or a skill set that evolved for you in really kind of running something fully on your own?

Like, talk to me a bit about how you started actually making sure everyone wasn't going, "Well, how come Emily's not working with me?" Like, "I wanna speak to Emily."

It was a gradual process.

It took time.

It's not like I came back and was like, "Right, I'm off the tools." It probably took me a whole year to come off fully, so over a 12-month period.

And that's why I, I say the timeframe because it-- you've gotta be quite patient with it.

It needs to be done in a strategic way.

My ultimate outcome always was to look after the clients and ensure I protect those relationships because you work so hard to get to a certain point, you wouldn't want anything to go wrong with that.

Mm.