Why don't we just start here? Just kind of give the audience a little bit of background about you, some of your experiences, what you're doing now, and then, you know, we'll just let it unfold from there.

Sounds great.

So just to take you on my journey, I'll start with my career path.

I was a finance major and I had the dream to move to New York City and become a stockbroker.

That was my plan.

However, back in the day when I was in college, the show Friends was a very big hit and Jennifer Aniston was an assistant buyer at Bloomingdale's.

So I was like, that sounds like a lot more fun.

But how do you have that trust, respect, rapport that really you're growing that relationship and building that? As a leader, somebody who has led at different levels, somebody who took over a brand and completely transformed it, what were some of those things that you did to build and grow those relationships that are practical and tactical that leaders you think could take away?