Michelle Weise

Like we talk about lifelong education, and yes, I'm going to be a lifelong learner, but we don't have those systems set up.

And so we have a ton of people falling through the cracks and not able to access precisely what they need in order to make progress in their lives.

And so the main message, especially to younger generations, is that

We have to have a real mindset shift.

And it's not a bad thing.

It's not a bad thing to need to grow, right?

And you have these kind of constraints that are forcing you to grow and seek out new information.

But unfortunately, also, the onus is on us as people to navigate this because we don't have that infrastructure set up.

My whole work in life is trying to kind of begin to set up those regional –

And so in the near term, it's on us.

We actually have to figure out how to surface and articulate our skills and translate them into the language of the job market, right?

And so it's a lot of work.

It's unfortunately a lot on us, but we get to do it.

We get to actually shape our future.

And I think both of us have made multiple pivots in our lives.

And we realize how amazing it is like once you're on the other side of it.

But we also realize how much of it is kind of fortune, luck, you know, your network, all these things kind of coming together in a beautiful way that a lot of people don't have access to.

So how do we make those kinds of changes?

social networks, professional networks more available to people to actually bring them along.

So that's the huge kind of lift for all of us is, unfortunately, it just kind of rests on us more.