Were you aware of the lack of similar support systems early in your own career?

I absolutely was, but the interesting thing was I didn't really know that something like this could even exist for me. All I knew was that I was coming up against obstacles, I worked for a lot of very large corporations. I just made mistakes and sometimes it worked out and sometimes it didn't. I didn't really know that a support structure or mentorship or anything like that even existed or was even an option for me. So I was just kind of blindly doing what I thought was best. And there were so many things with hindsight that I would have done differently that I just didn't know then.


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