How TCW's Koch Rebuilt After Losing Home in LA Wildfire

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00:00You moved to Los Angeles, you rent a home, and it burns down in the LA fire.

00:05Did you get anything out of your house?

00:07Just my husband and the kids, and he got his golf clubs.

00:11That was it. Everything else we kind of lost.

00:13A lot of people obviously lost homes, tens of thousands of people.

00:17At TCW, I was one of five people that lost their home or were displaced.

00:23When it first happened, I actually, I'm not proud of this,

00:26but my instinct was I wanted to run away with my kids.

00:30I wanted to protect them because not only did they lose their home,

00:33they lost the community, and it was just such a hard thing for them to have to face.

00:37And my husband is actually, he's a veteran who's been through many wars,

00:42and he had a very different approach, which was the right one, which is, this is life.

00:46Like, bad things happen to good people.

00:48Life is not a chart that goes up and to the right all the time,

00:51and our kids need to face this and work through it.

00:54And so we did stay, and I think it built a lot of resilience for them

01:00to have to work through that situation.

01:02And also, it gave them the greatest gift I think he gave a parent to a child,

01:07which is we didn't sort out the problem for them,

01:09so we gave them the gift of agency.

01:11As I said, a number of people at TCW also lost their homes.

01:14None of us missed a day for our clients.

01:16We had to show up for our clients, show up for our families and communities.