I'm excited to dive into

some of your own kind of personal thoughts as we share our insights, because I think among all my friends, I think you have some of the most robust, supportive network around you that I've seen.

You know, when I interact with friends you introduced me to or how you built your businesses, it's kind of amazing to see that ecosystem that Both for Variable and also for the Nourish community and personally, I think there's a lot of things we can offer folks here.

Before we go into, you know, kind of the juice of the course and our more tangible insights, we wanted to start by properly framing networking.

I think the word networking has some baggage to it.

You know, it's a little bit icky.

Sometimes you think of networking events or a lot of times feels like you're trying to like use people to get ahead in your career or it feels like people are using you and it's just kind of a lot of general meetings that might have no purpose.

This relates to really knowing who you are and what you