#6 - Elisa Miller-Out -- Connecting and coaching for a better ecosystem

So when we were having our conversation getting ready for this, you said that you have a gilded age family is how you described it.

And I want to touch on that.

But generally, I want to start with your kind of your path, because you have a story we've heard a lot, you know, kind of, you were here in the upstate, and then you had your journey took you other places and brought you back here.

So you'll talk to us about that a little bit.

Yeah, absolutely.

So, so first, just a little bit about my background.

So I was born in Ithaca, New York, so I'm a upstate New York native.

However, I grew up in New Orleans, spent time in New York city for college and after college.

And then moved back to upstate New York here in Ithaca when it was time to raise my kids and start a family.

So, you know, like many folks, I think I did this sort of, you know, big city journey back to upstate and very happy to be here and very settled here now for the longterm.

I still have a huge family.

In upstate New York, including, you know, lots of aunts, uncles and cousins and in-laws and all kinds of fun folks here in the region.

So we're very deeply rooted in upstate with our family at this point.

In terms of that little background that I alluded to, yeah, I have a really unusual family background in that.

I was born into one of the most famous families from the Gilded Age, which includes the Tiffany family.

So you may have heard of Charles Tiffany, who founded Tiffany & Company, or Louis Comfort Tiffany, his son, who was the famous stained glass artist and ran the famous interior design studio, which was the studio that obviously built out a lot of the interiors of some of the most magnificent Gilded Age homes that you see today.

Today were designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, many of them, including a lot of the stained glass and lamp elements, as well as a lot of interior design elements were built out by his studio.

So when you look at those famous mansions, you're often seeing my family's work in there, as well as the work of all the folks who worked with him.

He was also an entrepreneur and led a very large, a large company and team.

His father did as well, who ran the jewelry company, which we all know today is very iconic.

That was my great, great, great grandfather and great, great grandfather successfully.

So I do have a lot of really cool gossip from the Gilded Age.

So if anyone ever wants to hit me up over drinks or coffee sometime, happy to gossip about all the really interesting folks that my family members interacted with during that time.

But that said, I grew up.

very differently from that Gilded Age background.