Bela Bajaria

And the culture, the community, there's so much I love about it, right?

The group, all of that.

And this kind of American go after what you want, individuality, swagger, all the rest that comes with that.

If I can actually combine them both, I don't have to pick.

And I think for many years it was like, are you this or that?

And that was kind of during that time that I could like go on stage or

After I won, right, I would have to show up in every country and speak on stage and, like, having that.

Building the base.

That definitely builds the base.

Yeah.

So there's a lot of experience.

You know, I got through that.

But I think personally it was really the time where the superpower of being the Indian part and the American part, like, coming together was interesting.

So I didn't have to do that work.

later on or in the workplace.

But I know other people have, like, had to do that work... After.

Later.

I felt like by the time I started working, I had, like, really owned this and was very comfortable with this identity.

And I didn't feel like I had to...

be somebody else in the workplace or put on a different thing.