You know, were there early experiences that shaped, um, how you think about business and leadership and what you thought you'd ultimately be doing with your career?

Yeah.

What's not in the bio that you read, before, um, before my Disney days, I, I was actually an electrical engineer for a few years.

I got my degree at North Carolina State University and, and worked for the aerospace and defense industry for a few years before going to business school and getting my MBA.

So my plan had always been to be into business, but the, uh, when I was applying to colleges, uh, I only applied to two 'cause back then people didn't apply to the 20 schools that they apply to today.

Uh, I-- and I got into both North Carolina State and North Carolina, and my choice was whether to study engineering at North Carolina State or to study business at the University of North Carolina.

And the general advice that I got is like, "Well, if you like both, do the engineering first 'cause you can always do business later, but you can't do it the other way around." So that was the, the plan that I, uh, that was es- essentially the, uh, the plan that I went, went off on.

How do you balance that staying authentic to the audience while still scaling your business for growth? How does that play out for you?