00:00You have to be so much better than everyone else that they have to give it to you.
00:07Your dad came up a few times in the profile we wrote, and he gave you some really good but tough, your first piece of critical advice, and I was wondering if you could share that.
00:13I was a sophomore in high school, and I was trying to make money for college, and so the different service clubs would have these speech contests.
00:22And Lions Club had one, and I was in the semifinals, and my dad, who, as I said, he painted cars for a living.
00:30He had this little VW bug that made a lot of noise.
00:32He had one suit coat, and he would put his coat on.
00:36He would take me to these contests, and so I went, and I lost, and I lost to the daughter of one of the presidents of one of the Lion Clubs who was in the competition.
00:46And so on my way home that night, I was complaining because she was also kind of cutesy, and I've never been cutesy.
00:51So I was like, oh, she's a cutesy, and she's the daughter of the president.
00:55And my father looks at me, and he says, well, first of all, you are never going to be the daughter of the president of the Lions Club, right?
01:03And he's like, that's not the family you were born into.
01:05He's like, but I totally believe that you can do anything, but you have to be so much better than everyone else that they have to give it to you.
01:16It was hard to hear, and it was really my first piece of constructive feedback, but like, what a gift to me.
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