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Welcome to our guests
with Elizabeth emotion.

Thank you.

Siddharth.

Thank you.

I'm very humbled to be here today and
I'm very excited to talk to

all of these incredible students and
a few elders like myself in the room.

Thanks to Terry thanks to dory and
thanks to Al and

for the warm welcome that
I have received here.

I've been an entrepreneur for
more years than I want to talk about.

But I think there's a unifying
theme that goes throughout my

life that I think is important to
look at in terms of the vision.

And the so of an entrepreneur.

Where does it start.

One of the defining moments and

way are the links that take you
to where you are along the way.

They are we don't want to
talk about what year it was.

But this is one of actually five children
the fifth one had not been born yet.

Don't you love the play address.

I really have my mother to thank for that.

But being want to five children
particularly in a family where

all of us grew up to be entrepreneurs and
business owners.

And with two older brothers.

I had to fend for myself.

I had to be able to articulate
what I believed in and

get into the conversation
at the dinner table.

And it was difficult to do because I will
tell you of all five of us we are what

I would describe is supercharged
Triple A personalities and individuals.

So where did it all start
this entrepreneurship.

It started with this man my father
who always encouraged me to go.

For it.

Throughout my life when I was hit with
a challenge and we talked about it.

He always said and my husband
has continued to reinforce this.

I want you to go for it so

that thing has continued throughout
my life where I have been impacted by

positive reinforcement at home in
business and through my friendships.

But somewhere along the way
this entrepreneurship and

I describe it because my father
was a serial entrepreneur.

I describe it as a history
of serial entrepreneurship

at somewhere around seven years of age.

I started my first job.

And my first job to talk
about was selling snow cones.

So my job at seven years
of all of a huge was to

work in my father's store in
the state of South Carolina.

And I think he found this was a way to
keep us busy busy and out of trouble.

But magic.

Would you like blue or
would you like a pink snow cone.

But my job was to make friends and
to sail.

So along the way as you were growing up.

I would describe myself as very
average apathetic and involved.

And just kind of meandering through
life I had things that I did

I was engaged in things but
I was not exactly very highly motivated.

I did enjoy smoking.

That was one of my one of
my enjoyment was smoking.

I'm sad to say.

But it's some Let me go back here.

So in ninth grade my parents
came to me and they said.

You're going to girls' boarding school for
the next three years.

And I thought that's really not what
I want to do but I had no choice.

So all.

I went to a boarding school with ninety
other young women where I studied for

three years.

What I learned in boarding
school was the foundation

of leadership that his actually
led me to where I am today.

It was a frame more for
the joy of learning which is what I

know you have here is a foundation for
learning and for experiencing

things that you will go on to use WAY
beyond your Georgia Tech experience.

How I also learned from this
experience when people told me no.

Af-Am to way to find to guess and
I'll give you a few examples

back to this we were told You can't smoke.

You can't drink.

And you can't have date.

Except with still citable students.

Well I wasn't very keen about guys
with shaved heads at the time.

And I love to smoke.

And I thought well maybe it's pretty
cool to go out and have a drink.

So when ever I was told no
I found a way to do it.

So fast forward and

it's time to go to college I was ready to
bust out I was ready to leave the South.

And I went to my parents I was very
excited and I said OK I've got an idea and

I know where I want to go to college and
I'm so excited about where is it.

Well it's a New York.

And they said to me.

Missy.

You are not going to New York
to school but where am I going.

You're going to the same college
where your mother went and

your your mother graduated and

your grandmother graduate you know by the
way it's only thirty miles down the road

from where your home is when I'm back in
jail again is the way I described it.

So off I went to a women's college two
years very apathetic not doing anything

of any purpose and then something
happens to me in my sophomore year.

I'm majoring in English.

And my French professor calls me in and
says that I met show.

Mademoiselle on my show that
the what are you doing.

Why are you doing so badly in French.

You're making a D. minus the semester and

I said well I'm not going to do any
better because I don't like French.

It's eight o'clock in the morning and
I just don't want to be here.

And she said Well I think you're messing
around and I think you're wasting time and

I think you could do much better
than you do and so I'm going to give

you a challenge and that challenge was she
said Have you ever thought about going

to the program in Paris and spend in
a year and I thought Lady are you crazy.

Why would I do that.

Why would I want to go to Paris and
study and majoring in English literature.

And she said because I
think you'll do very well.

In France and I think you will really
really it will make a difference to you.

So between the time I left her office and
walk to close the lawn.

Back to my dorm.

I went from thinking that woman is nuts
to this is Matt ticket out of jail.

And this was my cross in the roads.

This was my defining moment.

Now for all of you that I've
met here this evening and

you are from all around the world.

So this may not seem like such
a big experience for you.

But for me it was a very big
experience and very exciting.

So here we are in Paris where
not having to worry about

the guys with shaved heads where
able to go out and enjoy things and

the joy of learning just continued and
continued and continued.

And so these experiences based
are basing this foundation for later on.

Is an entrepreneur.

I look back on experiences
that I've had over time.

I have worked for.

Companies and
I have launched multiple companies.

And I have conceptualized businesses and

I have built programs all
across the United States.

And one thing I think is an entrepreneur
that has been very consistent.

Is that I always look at.

What is the edge of
that cliff looked like.

For me I have that image
in my head all the time.

I think about that edge of the Clift and
how far can I get to the edge of the cliff

without falling off and I think that
really gets to the soul of an entrepreneur

the ability in the willingness
to take risks.

The other image that is very
visceral to me is this image.

And it's the image of that brick wall.

I continue to have brick
walls that hit me.

And I am trying to figure out
how in the world am I going to

get in scale this brick wall or
knock it down

and so along the way is an entrepreneur
and as a business owner.

And somebody who is responsible for

other people you have got
to figure out the wall.

What this brick wall is to you and
how you can overcome that brick wall.

And you've also got to figure out
this cliff and what that means.

So four years ago.

I was at another cross on the roads.

And when most people my age are retiring.

They are putting on their play Ed
jackets and back to the play out again.

They are taking off to
the Caymans they're playing golf.

They're buying or leasing a boat.

They're traveling to
places that I dream of.

I made a decision to
stay involved in work and

to make a difference and
in doing that I was able and

am able nail to be able
to build on a dream.

That's been building all alone
that has to do with impact

it has to do with being able to positively

impact what happens in our community and
beyond.

Now I'm talking to primarily
a group of millennial us and

you all get this you all understand
positive and societal impact.

So in two thousand and
we formed women ethics and

what we understood was that women
positively impact a bottom one.

When you develop a thing of collaboration.

Creativity innovation and
cognitive diversity.

You have positive results in your
companies and in your organizations.

So women are critical to this equation.

But men are just as critical to
this equation because if men

are not involved in this
messaging in this process.

It is not going to work.

Listen all the stats are there.

I don't have to put the stats and
front of you you you all are smart.

You've read about it but I do want
to point out one particular stat and

that has to do with women who
are in top management roles in

corporations perform thirty four
percent better to the bottom line.

So there is a higher rich.

Turned on equity of thirty four percent
when you have women at the top.

So I'm wonderin why are we
ignoring these facts and

why are not we not creating positive
action to do something about it.

So that's what our goal has been it
women Addicks is to create wins and

positive impact.

And where do we see that women
can have the most impact

we feel that they are three separate areas
where women can have the most impact

is affective leaders in businesses and
organizations

is a key component of
cognitive diverse teams and

is agents of change around global issues
that impact businesses bottom line.

So it's a win for everybody.

It's not just a win for women.

So with all of our program development
our leadership development.

Our training our external advance

our global issues everything
that we do with women ethics.

We also create other visceral programs and

I want to just share one with you
that I think was out of the box.

Totally different and
created a tremendous amount of impact and

people are still talking about it.

Two years later.

I came up with this idea after having

the opportunity to go to
the Porsche Rice track.

In Birmingham Alabama.

I was invited.

There is a v v appy.

And all the guys were in there at
the mayor was there and all kinds of other

people what they are and they were driving
the fast cars and doing all this stuff.

And I'm not into going to
Birmingham Alabama and

all ghost and I never have really
thought I was a fan of the.

Yes racing cars but
I was invited by the C.E.O.

and I thought this means
something I need to go.

I came away with the most incredible
one of the most incredible experiences

that I have ever had.

So I'm back to the defining
moment the cross on the roads.

Here's this person who has not been.

Necessarily inspired in a different
way and a long time but

I came away from that experience
with this is all about leadership.

This is all about pushing yourself in
this is all about taking the risk.

I'm comfortable with risk I've dealt with
risk all my life as an entrepreneur.

But this was a different type of risk.

So we created a program that had
twenty women fly in from all over

the country to Birmingham and
created a high performance leadership

development program for
women and it was incredible.

So we had the program the day before.

And then the day they took off the Jimmy
Choo shoes put on their helmets and

took off on the race track.

So sixty Happer formants cars and

the audio race track driver who's
experienced is coming through the car and

he's telling me a Lizabeth you can
do it you can go faster you can

push yourself and go beyond what you
think you can and I was petrified.

I was absolutely petrified.

So again.

It's across the road.

It is an opportunity for

you to push yourself beyond
where you have been before.

Two and
a half years ago when you got certified

is a big corporation and I'm sure all of
you you have this program next Thursday.

Talk about social impact.

Well this is a very strenuous
certification that we went through we

just got recertified But
what it says is that we can operate in a.

For profit space is a purpose
built social impact company.

This is big.

This is big and the reason it is so
big is because that

role has been traditionally confined
to nonprofits and foundations.

So now what you're able to do in the for
profit space is not only create

a sustainable and societal impact for
the communities that you serve.

You're not just serving your stockholders.

But you're serving your shareholders.

So it's a it's a double
benefit from my standpoint

we are working with the state right male
to help them push legislation through.

But I think the important thing to see
here is that they are only nine hundred

ninety companies worldwide that have been
certified in this slide it's actually

incorrect as of yesterday I found out
I don't have chance to change it.

There are only seven certified in Georgia
and women attics is one of seven.

So we are really exceptionally proud
of that external assessment and

endorsement of what we do and the work and
how we feel like we are making an impact.

You all are and volved in everything and

want to do so many things to do good.

And I love your generation and
I think you're on the right track and

it's very exciting to see the passion
that you have around making an impact.

What I want to encourage you to
think about is as you go forward.

Don't just think about making that
societal impact outside of corporations.

Because if you can make that with in.

For profit companies this world
is really going to change.

So the whole concept that has grown from.

Corporate Social Responsibility
to creating shared value and

societal benefit and
impact is a big movement.

You know it but I'm going to
ask you to think about that and

how you might be able to make
that impact within corporations.

Because if you do that then we
can have an opportunity for

companies to shift the way
they have been structured and

the way that they have been
looking at business today.

Towards a new model for success.

I think my speaking time
is more importantly

I would love to take some
questions from the audience.

So don't embarrass me by
not having any questions.

You questions.

I can stall for one.

And they will look to the students and.

You say that George's was one of the I
guess there's many states that are.

Were be corpse are not illegal.

You know to.

And you say you're also
working with the legislature.

Could you explain that there
was resistance there would be

if the resistance you're trying to work
through to try to create this type of

organization in Georgia and also what
is the legal significance of a peak or

versus a regular corporation.

Well Alan I have not been the one
within our company who has been

workin directly on this issue.

I've had somebody else working on it but
talking with my.

Attorney today because
he's very involved in it.

He is explained to me that when the
legislation comes up next year that it's

not just going to be certification for
a big corp which would qualify in

the category of a benefit corporation
where there is an external.

Measurement or assessment and the core
is sort of be an independent agency.

But they will also be another
part of the bill that will

talk about you could be qualified
as a special purpose Corporation

which does not require the certification
is the way he explained it to me.

So a corporation could say that it's not
exactly producing a great product or

whatever could just.

Well but I'm doing a project for
candy gardens or

helping kids in school or whatever.

So there's not that very
very strained you want.

Strange an assessment that goes
on with the first part of it.

I also think quite frankly
that it's been slow moving

because they just don't want to change.

I see.

I see a huge opportunity for this.

To be able to pass this legislation and

to create a community a state where

it is positively impacting
new investors and

also people like you that want to work for
companies who are doing good.

I think it's a very positive
way that the state can go.

Legal significance of A because
well the legal significance

is that you write in to your
operating statement in terms

of the company that not every decision is
going to be made for the profitability.

Women and
the come back to Vittie of women but

we are focused on the business of women.

So we have public events ones coming
up on April third that Georgia Tech

is participating in April
thirtieth I'm sorry.

And these are public events but we also
have a program called the academy program

which are directed specifically at
leadership development programs women so

how do they differ from programs
that would be open to me and.

These are programs that
have been developed with

a gender through a gender Lans.

And it's about business.

So it is not a general leadership
development program that would apply

to all we are able to I think say
things and say things that maybe H.R.

companies H.R. people within companies
would maybe not be able to do

but the results that we're looking for
are ways to take high potential women and

give them the business tools
that they need to succeed.

So it all goes back to business
does that help any Terry.

Mark so that one question though you so
you mentioned women top

management positions so that generate
higher turnout thirty four percent.

So just one to see what kind of
companies are working in industries or

include in their calculation
that figure they provided.

Well I will tell you that one of

the companies that I have
the most admiration for

that's really walking the walk and
talk and the talk is are in stone.

And one of the reasons

is that they have spent a lot
of time studying this issue but

they really practice what they preach and
so.

I'm concerned but I'm also encouraged
because I think there's a solution to

this that a lot of companies are going
through the check off of the box.

It's OK we support diversity we
support women in leadership.

They put together women's affinity groups.

And they don't have any direction or
any training or

any in goals with what they're doing.

I work directly with a company right now

that has six hundred women in
their Women's of finity group.

It's in the Midwest.

They've had this group form for a year and

a half the woman who is running the
program doesn't have a clue what to do and

it's it's typically the responsibility
of that women's affinity

group is given to an employee
who has a full time job.

And so I'm not sure how effective
she's going to be able to be

doing her regular job which is stressful
enough and taking care of six hundred

women who are looking for something but
they don't know what they're looking for

so that is of great concern to me
that we're checking off boxes and

the boxes feel good and we were told
that we need to check off the boxes but

what we're going to do
once we check off the box.

And back to my continuation of point about

if man are not involved
in this discussion.

We're not going to be successful and
so it has to start at the top and.

The the.

The majority of the people at the top
right now of man and so the communication

has got to be created in taken to
the top because it's not going to float.

If it didn't because it.

It ends up looking confrontational.

Now right here.

Mining stealing and
I had a question specifically about the.

Race car I guess experience that you
were describing with the twenty women

you shared that even though you
encountered risk many times

where it was a very terrifying experience
and I was just wondering why it was so

different than previous experiences and
how it's helped you

in the future how to help as you
can Conard different situations.

My husband wanted me to bring the video

of that experience because they
had a video in the rice car.

And I refused to do it because
the expletives that were on the video

could not be shown and
called it was I was panicked.

I was really panicked and so
many people have asked me

when somebody asked me last night
half a Asked where you drive it.

I don't have a clue.

I do not have a clue because I was so
frightened to take my eyes

off the way you know and
what I was doing to look at half I asked.

I was going but what it did for
me was very interesting.

What it teaches you is that you
cannot be lookin at the next curve.

You have to look beyond that and
if you're not look and

way to the future and what the road
looks like way down the road.

You're going to crash and burn.

And so what we did was after every we had

I don't know four to five to six exercises
that we did in different race cars.

And after we got out of each exercise
then we talked about how that

particular exercise apply to what we
had talked about the night before so

it's easy to sit in a room and
talk about things but when you get out and

have the experience firsthand of that and

that's that it was it was very frightening
for me but it pushed me into areas

where I didn't know that I was capable
of going and that was really exciting.

I have a question.

To what would you say was your.

The biggest sort of obstacle
that you came across was

sort of a woman that aches and
how did you overcome that and

also what I guess what's a piece
had advice you'd like to give those

that are about to I want to go embark on
the journey of like social entrepreneurs.

OK So what has been my biggest obstacle
that women addicts and then what.

How did you overcome that and
and just a piece of advice.

Well as there's not been one.

There are a million of those brick walls
and I experience some almost every day.

But I will tell you from
a messaging standpoint I think.

I think one of the biggest hurdles
that we have had as a company

is to clearly articulate
that we are a business and

not nonprofit company and
we're about the business of women because

once you put the name women Addicks
on something people assume.

And I like to say this a lot
that it's about a big group hug.

Women addicts is not about a big group.

It's about results.

It's about Bottom line it's about
improving the bottom line and

in the fiscal returns on companies.

So that's been our biggest hurdle and
continues to be a big hurdle that we have

OK My name is Danielle and
my question is What are some

of the reasons that you believe woman
perform thirty four percent better sorry.

Thirty four percent better in top
management roles and what steps can we

take today to prepare for the future if
we're going into those types of roles.

I think those answers are very simple.

I think women have a different
way of doing business.

I think they have a different way of
looking and to be very collaborative and

I am I am not trying to
stereotype people at all.

But women tend not to work in
silos women work this way so they.

Work across.

Verticals.

They're collaborative and
they bring a different viewpoint to things

they also when they get really passionate
about something and they don't stop and

I know with all the women that work for

me because I've got employees and
I have contract people that work for me.

I love this generation.

I absolutely love this generation because
they come in and they get focused and

they get it done.

So I think there's a difference and
I think if you go back and

you look at some of the studies
of catalyst dot org And

you look at some of the research
that McKenzie and Credit Suisse and.

Bain and and G.

and all of the big always have
have developed you will see that

it's when the collaboration starts and
the putting together

a cognitive diverse workforce
that that's when things change.

I think where women are being held back
to a great extent has to do with it.

Whole slide on risk because
women are risk adverse.

And I also think it's because women
are making the decisions is they get to be

twenty A to thirty eight years old
to opt out of the workforce because

they are deciding it's time to have the
children and then they make a decision.

They're not to come back because
they were working sixty or

seventy or eighty hours and they're
not going to put up with it anymore or

they decide to go start
their own companies but

that's when we start to lose all
the women in the corporate arena.

And it's a shame because those slots
are not being filled by women.

So we've got to figure that out.

And I and I really believe
that it's about being capable

being trained having all the qualities
to succeed it's not about.

Slot of X. number of women.

It's about making sure they have
the opportunities to achieve success.

You said before that before boarding
school you felt very apathetic and

an involved and then once you got
to boarding school your joy for

learning and new experiences were rushed.

So my question is What do you think that
school did right and what do you think

schools can do today to inspire our
generation and younger generations.

Well for me that's a great question for
me it was I hate to tell you for

me it was forced learning in
study hall in the afternoon and

in the evening so
it provided me the foundation

of disciplined learning and

execution that I have to do it got
ingrained at a very early age.

The joy of learning.

I mean I had teachers and professors
fabulous professors and teachers and

so I still think about them and I also
wish I could go back and think met I

met who I really didn't like at the time
you know I thought this woman she's nuts.

And I didn't like the language and
I hated the class.

But what she challenged to me
to do was something that I had

never thought about and
so she gave me a go.

What she said was if you
bring that the minus.

Up to an A minus.

We'll consider taking
you on the program and

I did it because I wanted to get out of
jail and it was that was my inspiration.

I wish I could go back and
thank her today.

She has no one had the positive impact
that she made on me and I'm sure.

Matt Allen's making those impact for
you all today as well.

Anybody else.

Hi I'm glad you and my question was you
were kind and serene the last part of it.

I was just going see you say you're
average and you didn't have a guess.

You were just make
an average pseudonym but

then when do you get that challenge like
well with things that are going through

your mind because I know you've seen
she's not like why would I go there.

Why would I even go through this program.

Then why were you.

They keep pushing forward and you wanted
to get a dale those he could to get out of

jail but were any other things
besides just get another job.

That's a that's a great question.

I knew that I wanted to do big things I
just knew it from the time I was small and

I wanted bigger opportunities than I
was being exposed to where I grew up

and the things that I enjoyed
doing were not the things

that the other girls enjoyed doing for
the most part they were thinking

about getting out of college they were
thinking about getting married and

having children and they were thinking
about doing the Junior League and

not that there's anything wrong with
any of that but I didn't want to do

those things and I wanted to
experience a whole lot more than that.

Because I wanted to learn about other
cultures and I wanted to learn how to

speak another language and I wanted to
meet other people who six periods as were

different than me so part of it was
just not thinking about it at all.

It was literally getting out of jail but
the other part was the opportunity to do

something way beyond what
I had been able to do and

allowed to do that you know you all don't
have those problems today but I'm sure

that there are some things that are
holding your bag higher I'm terrible I'm.

I recently read.

Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean and
I thought it was a fabulous book and

used had used those words even to my
men students before that to lean in and

I was really surprised after thinking it
was such a fabulous book that there was so

much criticism.

About it from both women and
men about that he didn't

adequately address the the an even
playing field the situation.

The whole lack of inclusive it he and
you know in workplaces.

So I'm left here with having
my expert on the stage.

How does what's the woman at a message

related to the two sides of the debate and

how did these get incorporated
into the programs that you used to

either change workplaces or develop
the woman who participate you programs.

That's a big questions terror.

First of all I want to I want to just say
that I think Sheryl did a terrific job

in bringing all of this to the forefront
just like Ann Marie Slaughter did

with her article and The Economist I mean
that was just great that now we've got

national attention being
paid to these topics.

My idea.

And I'm not trying to take anything
away from Sheryl Sandberg because I

couldn't possibly but my idea is instead
of just leaning in let's lay an eye out.

Let's lay it out and we've got to we've
got to create these conversations and

results in business.

We've got to quit talking
about the problem and

be proactive about the solutions and
so that's what are for

are it's focused on is how can
we work on the solutions and

it's got to be hand in hand
with companies who understand

our maybe need to understand that there
needs to be some shift in the way the.

That the fact is that our numbers
of increase so we're starting

to think about ourselves differently
than we did before and by the way.

Alan we didn't incorporate
initially as a big corporation.

We incorporated as an L.L.C.
We have just shifted to a corporation.

But in the process we went and
we applied for the B.

Corp sort of occasion and
then we folded that into our business.

I I There we go.

I and I says many women
are afraid to speak up and

demand equality because people
are quick to label it as aggressive or

thier pushy as warning what advice you
have for women who feel these labels could

affect their career and kind of I didn't
hear the last part I was wondering what

advice you have through when you feel
these labels could affect their career and

kind of cars themselves
to slow themselves down.

I.

My advice is step up when you step up.

You've got to have something important
to add to the conversation instead of

just talking to make noise.

So you've got to participate you've
got to be part of the conversation but

you've got to be part of the solution.

So I'm looking for

women to be a lot more certain if I'm
looking for women to tell you more risk.

And I'm looking for women to feel
really good about who they are and

what they can accomplish and
not be standing off to the side and

expecting other people to do it for
me I'm over here.

So my questions kind of kind
of touched upon it but.

You said women tend to take less
risk they're very risk averse so

in the position that you've reached today.

Do you feel like you really have to
push yourself to take those for.

Risks or were you more for
risk taker for me personally and

also the you have any advice for
students who like for

women who might think that
they are more risk averse.

It's an individual thing.

It really is.

For me.

I've always wanted to go after and
try new things to build new opportunities

build new companies have new
ideas put the plans together.

Some are going to work and
some are definitely not going to work so

I would say I'm really pretty
comfortable with risk.

It's not that I sleep
completely well at night.

But I'm comfortable with the fact that
I take risks but I plan them through.

I think for a lot of women.

The problem is is they
get in they should be

concerned about the fact
what if I do this and.

It's going to negatively impact my
position here I'm dependent upon

the insurance for the company a lot of
women tell me I have an opportunity to

move to the next position in
our company and I can apply for

my boss's job but I don't want it
because I'm comfortable where I am

I know that I can take time
off to see my kids' soccer.

You know do whatever I don't
want to go to the next level.

So those will next levels
are getting void and

that's our part of our big concern
is we need to provide a way

that they're not pain just because
they're looking after family and they're

putting family first because that's really
important that is really important.

Thank you.

This is going back to
what you mentioned about

the France troop I was just wondering
can you speak up a little bit.

Yes So this is going back to what
you mentioned about the France trip.

I just wanted to know what specifically
impacted you about your year long.

And you mentioned that you didn't want
the same things that other women your

age then did so did you notice.

For me I've always wanted to go at
there and try new things to build new

opportunities build new companies have
new ideas put the plans together.

Some are going to work and
some are definitely not going to work.

So I would say I'm really
pretty comfortable with risk.

It's not that I sleep
completely well at night.

But I'm comfortable with the fact that
I take risks but I plan them through.

I think for a lot of women.

The problem is is they get in they should
be concerned about the fact what if I do

this and it's going to negatively
impact my position here I'm dependent

upon the insurance for the company a lot
of women tell me I have an opportunity

to move to the next position on our
company and I can apply for my boss's job.

But I don't want it because
I'm comfortable where I am

I know that I can take time
off to see my kids' soccer.

You know do whatever I don't
want to go to the next level.

So those will next levels
are getting void and

that's our part of our big concern
is we need to provide a way

that they're not paying a lot because
they're looking after family and they're

putting family first because that's really
important that is really important.

Thank you.

This is going back to what you
mentioned about the France trip.

I was just wondering can you
speak up a little bit yes.

So this is going back to what you
mentioned about the France trip.

I just wanted to know what specifically
impacted you about your yearlong

experience and you mentioned
that you didn't want the same

things that other women your age then
did so did you notice a difference in.

Mentality between European women and

American women and more specifically
What skills did you learn

during your experience that you
implemented in your business.

Well that's a mouthful.

Well I would say the first
thing that happened was that

I got late into the program.

There were already twelve other women
that had been accepted that had made

better grades than I had.

So they were also you know so
they had roommates they

knew where they were staying and
they were all together as a group.

I was left by myself.

And so
on the boat going over we land at love and

we take a long train into Paris and

I arrive in Paris in the middle of the
night and there I am by myself looking for

the family that's going to take me
with them for the rest of the year.

Now a lot of you have
already done this but

that was a pretty scary thing is to think
well I mean I could hardly speak French.

Let's just be frank.

So I had to go through the process
of learning a new language.

I was living with a family
that had four children and

unbeknown to me some of them really spoke
English but they acted like they didn't so

I had to learn to converse
with the family and

all the other girls women were together
and they were all remain together and

had all the little things
that they did together and so

that was an incredible experience
of being by myself and having to

do everything by myself and choosing
when I wanted to spend time with them.

For the learning part of it.

It was incredible.

It was just absolutely
an incredible experience.

And so I had the opportunity at
the Sorbonne where I studied

we went to the best of two to
Professor to false AI which is offer

all of us foreign students and so there
were people from every type of culture in

our language classes and
that was extremely exciting for me.

And again has formed a foundation for
learning about other.

Cultures and that experience so

it just continues to build
on what we're doing today.

And I think back to the so of who I am and
what I have done all along.

Because there's of course we're a last
question but you can get around for

a few minutes.

Roy just can't support a one question.

OK OK So what should I.

I mean it's about and I was wondering.

So you said there are these
boys spots up in the corp and

I can assure you I'm sorry can speak up.

Can you hear me now.

Yeah OK So my question is do you think

women who want to be
entrepreneurs should do you

think they would be more beneficial
making social impact as entrepreneurs or.

Building up these white
spots in the corporations.

I think you need them in both places and
I don't think women as

entrepreneurs necessarily have to
choose to be a benefit corporation.

I think they ought to be able to
do whatever they want to do for

us it's been a nice journey and it's able.

It's an opportunity for us to
externally articulate what we consider

to be a positive impact where
Mike thanks for the Georgia Tech.

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