Henna Pryor

A lot of us in the last five years got thrown into these hybrid workspaces, virtual workspaces.

We may not see our colleagues anymore.

We tend to have this tendency to magnify or create a story around what it means

to ask someone for help.

We're not talking to them as often.

So the muscle feels underdeveloped.

We are not clear on what they think our capabilities are, what we think their bandwidth is to help us.

So we tell ourself a whole story about what that represents.

And because of all these factors, it's harder than ever to ask for help.

But amongst all of those, the biggest one is we're just not doing it as much and we've gotten out of practice.

Thank you for having me, John.

Excited to be here.

Oh, gosh, work ethic, work ethic.

So I joined in 2003.

And at that time for any accountants or finance folks, that was when Sarbanes-Oxley first came out.

So all public companies had to become Sarbanes-Oxley compliant, which was this whole new set of regulations.

And so all of that to say for about two years straight, I worked a year round busy season.

So in the accounting world, there's an expectation that you work about three months of intense busy season, January through March or April, but then the rest of the year is normal.

I had no normal.

It was two years of busy season because every client had to become SOX compliant.