Janice Bryant Howroyd

And, you know, so when I came back, she said, oh, I look at her chatting with it.

She also told me everybody who'd been in before me to make a presentation, what their energy was, you know, et cetera, et cetera.

And I didn't ask her for that.

She felt that we were in a community.

She felt we had a culture of shared experiences.

She bothered to read about me.

She knew that I come from humble beginnings as had she.

And she knew that I was an example of who she could become.

But most importantly, she knew she mattered.

she knew she mattered in my life and boy did she prove it because actually we won a contract in large part because of that young lady being so thoughtful and so caring to help us to understand that one of the people we were going to be going in to present to had a particular crisis they were dealing with and we were able to be sensitive to that that showed that company that we were going to be sensitive

to how we demonstrated our expertise and not just go in there and try to, you know, show them stuff.

And that kind of leans into time to understand, you know, time is the most precious commodity, yet it is one that all of us have.

And we share that same amount by day, depending on how we separate our days.

Sometimes I think we work five day weeks and have longer hours than a day when we blur the lines of when we start and finish.

Um,

Time is something that is so important.

We have but amount of it, but a certain amount of it on earth.

And I think how we invest it is so important.

I no longer spend time.

I invest time.