Dr. Nicole LePera

Just out, right?

And so they just kind of

went along with it.

And I think because it's not that they didn't care.

They saw me succeeding, excelling.

I was very secretive about what I was doing.

I wasn't getting in trouble like my brother was when he was growing up.

So by contrast,

on the surface, it seemed like I was doing well.

And again, we were a family who didn't really talk about our emotions.

We weren't really connected to our emotions.

So I don't think they had any indication.

And I was very good at suppressing my emotions and coping in this way that I don't think they had any indication to know or to think.

And if they did, maybe they didn't have the language to address what it was that they were noticing.

What's coming to mind is the modeling that my father provided, which was very hardworking.

Before I was born, he would work well into the night, long hours to support the family financially.

When I was born, thankfully, he had much more of a contained job, though worked very hard at work during the day, came home,

caught me playing softball, trained with me, worked in the garden, was always doing something, again, with this both direct, right, to exceed in 6L, you need to have the academics.

My mom, when I would come home with a 96, she'd say, why not 100, right?

And so that translated into drive, ambition.