Sean Feeney

Or she would go to a family meal at Lilia just so we could kind of cross paths before she had to go back home with Biella to West Village.

And Missy told me in the car ride home, like, will you keep coming to the restaurant every night?

And it was after our review of the New York Times and we were certainly going to be very successful.

We could tell.

I said, yeah, I am.

She said, good, because you're really, I haven't seen anybody this good on the floor and you're really leading us.

I said, okay.

And I remember leaving Missy and I had eight stairs up to my apartment and it was like two o'clock in the morning.

I woke Maria up and I told her about this and I apologized because two years before that I said I wasn't going to be this.

And she didn't hesitate and she just said, let's go.

Let's move to Williamsburg.

And we moved.

left this awesome apartment that we dreamed of.

And we moved into this really small apartment that was very temporary and 4.45 in the morning until I would let the pastry chef in 5.30 be at my desk at Anchorage.

Five o'clock, I would take the L train to Bedford and see Maria and Biela and have a quick bite and read a book and

Then work the room and work the floor and build this team and company.

I guess the greatest gift is the courage.

She gave me the courage to risk being my true self.

And yeah, I'll be forever grateful.

And I hope that you find belief in yourself a lot when others believe in you.