Sean Feeney

And I started thinking about people who I looked up to and understanding that what you do is not who you are.

Who you are is understanding your greatest strengths, understanding what you're not so great at and feeling okay about that.

For 15 years in finance, I...

knew what made me different than others.

I knew what gave me an edge.

That thing, making relationships genuinely, building on trust, it got me through all of my days, the hard days, the good days.

I knew what made me different in finance.

But the job that I did in finance as a trader

It didn't make me extraordinary at it.

It didn't ever make me feel in complete control of my destiny, my future.

I always had a feeling in finance that if the music stopped, they would take my seat.

I lived in that fear.

I felt like it was a job.

I also always attributed success and measured success in that finance job as an end of year bonus, promotion, or somebody who was looking at me to bid me away from where I was currently working.

When I joined finance, that's how I was going to measure success, wins and losses.

But when I felt this other thing, when Lilia opened, I realized that what success was, it was doing something every single day for the rest of your life, happy to do it.

That to me was success.

And I couldn't feel that unless I was totally happy with who I was and honest with who I was.

And I believe that every single human is a genius.

And there is one inside of them.