Hattie Johnson

Like I think you've definitely sort of steadily improved your grant applications and the language around them.

And the grants have come as a result.

Does that track with your experience?

Yeah, well, and that I think brings me to another question, which has to do with your experience of the community, because you use the community a good amount.

It sounds to me that when you saw other people doing things and seeing success, like you

You are more inclined to do that.

Or also, I think, seeing other people, recognizing that also it's not a straight path.

Like sometimes you don't get the grant, but you're not the only one, right?

There's also that.

So how did you start using the community?

And was there a moment where things kind of clicked for you?

Yeah.

So can you tell me a little bit about what that experience looks like for you?

Because I think one thing that would be helpful for people who are not members to understand is that

how you connect with other people, especially because in a membership, there's a lot of different ways that you can connect with people.

And it may not be just sort of natural to think about what those interactions might look like.

I mean, I think one thing that's sort of exciting for me to have you on the podcast, like one of the reasons this is exciting is that I've seen the growth of your applications, right?

From the first time we were talking about the imaging and the sequencing to now a couple of years later, and it's just like,

leagues ahead.

You are so much better at it.