Amina AlTai

And then you also can't access your higher level of thinking because you're just always in the chaos.

So I love how you language that.

so valuable you you were so needed and and i just wanted to say thank you thank you so much for saying that none of it is lost on me and especially the part about like your cousins and sisters all of it like it's just so meaningful to me and it like this is what gets me up every single day is i want to be in service and support of these people and the reason that i do it is that i think just very early on i realized

like a lot of people realize, the starting line is not the same for everybody.

And all of our experiences, particularly in the workplace, are really different.

It's not a meritocracy.

And we experience a lot of harm as a result of it.

And that's something that I really want to shift in my lifetime.

How can we support a lot of these?

So most of my clients are the first, the few, the onlys.

So they are the first woman in leadership, the first person of color, the first queer person, the first man of color.

And they experience so much headwinds as a result of that, right?

They have their very own glass cliff experiences where maybe they make it through the glass ceiling, but then they get pushed off the proverbial cliff and they experience a lot of bias.

And it just requires a very particular lens and level of care to support those folks, right?

Because they are navigating systems that weren't designed for them to thrive.

And I think it's important that we have honest conversations about that.

And, you know, I think that we are making some headway.

Right.

I don't I don't think fast enough.

We're making some headway, though.