Nicole

You don't, you know, you're not going to feel fulfilled.

And so I just think for me, for this chapter of my, you know, I'm calling this my legacy chapter, the thing I want my kids and my grandkids one day to be very proud of.

For me, it's going to be as much about the people that I built the firm with as much as what we were doing with the firm.

When you wake up every day and you feel responsible for the people who have taken a risk in their own careers to come join you and the magnitude of that on your shoulders every day when you're thinking, okay, am I going to raise that next dollar?

Am I going to find the next great deal to deploy that capital into?

am I getting the momentum we need?

Are we getting the traction we need?

Are we getting an LP base that believes in us in the way that we believe in ourselves?

I think the weight of thinking about the folks that left great careers to come join because they believed in you, believed in the strategy,

You know, it weighs on me heavier every night than I imagined.

I'm a very, I'm an empathetic person by nature, but I really do think each and every day about the folks who left really awesome jobs to come do Square Nine.

And I really want to make them proud.

I want to make their families proud.

You know, it weighs on you more than you probably imagine before you've launched.

I love that question.

So, look, I think humans by nature want to feel liked and respected.

And, you know, I started this podcast.

Right.

We're people pleasers.

It's hard getting a no, especially when you get a no from people who you're like, wait a minute.