Michelle 'Mace' Curran

platform and this position and this timing to be able to not just feel fulfilled myself because I get to control my schedule and I'm my own boss and I have creative control of the narrative, but just to see this legacy being left when I talk to a 20 year old woman who wants to be a pilot or I talk to a 65 year old man who's retiring and feels like he's lost his identity.

And so I feel like that's

Still sort of my why, but I like that you took it a little bit deeper because being an entrepreneur is hard and uncertain.

And it just keeps me running towards the target without hesitation, maybe naively sometimes.

But I absolutely love it.

That means a lot.

And Robert has just done such an incredible job of using the platform he's been given to give back to the veteran community.

He's, you know, just a handful of people are doing it at that level and he's one of them.

So I love that connection.

Yeah, growing up in Wisconsin was a great place to grow up.

But my dad would be very sad if I didn't tell you when I was growing up, we didn't live anywhere close to Beloit, but we would drive past the exit for it.

And we were going on a road trip and he would say, you know how they named that town?

It's the sound a quarter makes if you accidentally drop it in the toilet.

The most obscure thing that I remember from my childhood.

I don't even think I've ever been to Beloit.

So I apologize for people from there that are listening.

But that is what my dad would say.

That's the most dad story I've ever heard.

Yeah, lots of hidden gems like that in the Midwest in general, I think.

But yeah, so I didn't grow up in an aviation family or military family.