[laughs] How did it come about?

No. No.

I would just say that, I mean, when [sighs] part of, yeah, r- part of reflecting this summer, again, learning about who I am, what, who I am as a, as a person, as a leader, as a coach, what I aspire to continue to grow into as a coach, I've found the people that inspire me the most, the players that I've asked, and I've asked a lot of veteran guys in the league, young guys in the league, guys that are no longer playing the league, who was their best coach and why, what about them.

I've tried to get really granular on my experiences.

I'm sure Tess, like, we could talk about this, too.

We all have- Kind of that different recipe of what makes an incredible coach, and it's always, always comes back to one thing, how they made you feel.

And how they made you feel affected how you, how, how everything, um, how you did everything from there, and whether that's buy-in or role or getting better or wanting to come to the rink, wanting to be part of it, understanding your role, and that's kind of like the clarity piece, the courage piece, like the coaches that are tough, that are honest, that are vulnerable.

Cool.

I wanna [laughs] become the first full-time female coach in NHL history"?

Well, I didn't have a blueprint.

I had no clear path to follow per se of how it's done or how to get to working at the highest level of hockey, but it was never about that for me.

It was always about doing the work and following my passion and just l- loving that process, and I knew that if I was excellent at what I did and that I had a positive impact, that would take me exactly where I was meant to go anyways.

So I worked with players of all ages, youth, boys and girls, and that went up to junior hockey players, college, pro, and then the NHL players started to show up, and they were showing up for my coaching, my business, my approach, my method.

And that's when it started to click for me, like, "Hmm, I'm doing something different," or, "They're showing up for a reason.

What is that?" And as I started to unpack that and just kind of really take in all of the input and build relationships with NHL players, one of the pros, he's now retired, Brent Seabrook, you know, we were doing one-on-one private sessions working on rehabbing his skating, and he said to me, "You're gonna, you're gonna be in the NHL one day.

What would you say are your key strengths as a coach?

I wanna [laughs] become the first full-time female coach in NHL history"?

Well, I didn't have a blueprint.

I had no clear path to follow per se of how it's done or how to get to working at the highest level of hockey, but it was never about that for me.

It was always about doing the work and following my passion and just l- loving that process.

And I knew that if I was excellent at what I did and that I had a positive impact, that would take me exactly where I was meant to go anyways.

So I worked with players of all ages, youth, boys and girls, and that went up to junior hockey players, college pro, and then the NHL players started to show up, and they were showing up for my coaching, my business, my approach, my method.

And that's when it started to click for me.

What would you say are your key strengths as a coach?