Monique Rodriguez

We want to leave something in them that they will understand the stewardship around continuing to grow, uh, their parents', uh, assets that supersede their lives as well, right? And so, uh, and that's fishing for a lifetime, okay? Uh, and so for us, we understood that early on by doing what? Asking those questions.

And what I will say is, as I mentioned earlier, Monique and I, we were young, very ambitious kids.

We were 16 years old dreaming, and we'll say, "What is it together that they do that we have not seen? How are they able to do those things?" We were like that at, as, as kids.

And so the point is, is that, um, it instills something in both of us to dream bigger.

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Uh, but you know, um, just to kinda give you guys a, a, um, a brief on our story timeline.

Monique and I have been knowing each other and acquainted since we were children.

Uh, she was 12 years old, I was 13.