Well, you know, I bring it up because literally verbatim , you know, very similar story. She had to sort of exist with the undocumented status mm-hmm. and the parents. And so she had to rise above all that. And I really feel that because of that and because of your adversity, do you, and I'll just see if it relates to what she says. Do you think that drove you to be hyper successful even more so because you almost out of necessity had to do that? Stephanie Shojaee (23:30): Absolutely. 100%. You know, when you grow in a household where you're seeing your parents work extra hard, where you know that you have to be better than the person next to you, you have to be more prepared. You have to just really race harder and stronger. It, it teaches you that since at a very young age, I still remember my parents taking the test to become residents of, of the United States. And I was very, very young having to teach my parents English because the test obviously was in English. And like having to see that struggle, um, it made me at a, at a very young age want to be, you know, a step ahead. Corey Andrew Powell (24:06): Right? Yeah. She mentions that exact same thing. In fact, her book is called The Other, and it's about women of color. Mm-hmm. , how they have to sort of exist in these worlds where they are, uh, in some ways made to feel invisible because of stigma and stereotype. And then what happens is if you can hone who you are and live in your authenticity, you empower yourself and you show up as your full Latina Colombian woman self and own the situation. So I know your heritage is a, a big part of why you say also you've been successful. So explain more about that. Stephanie Shojaee (24:38): So it's one of the things that I actually pride myself in, especially now in the role that I have, is to have an all woman Latina team, um, working here at Shoma, especially predominantly in the marketing department. And one of the things I like to teach them is to make sure that they're always authentic to who they are. Because if you walk into a meeting and you are really who you are, you are not worrying about pretending to be someone else, knowing the subject and, and following everything that's in being discussed in the meeting. So for me, it's super important that you own exactly who you are, you dress, how you identify, how you feel. So for me, that's one of the main things I try to, to teach girls. But I think the Hispanic heritage, uh, for sure, you know, I think is one of my, my my superpowers. Stephanie Shojaee (25:23): I think that it's made me such a hard worker having to, like you said, I have to identify with who I am and like work harder so that I don't get shadowed in the back, which I did get always put back in the back. Even in, in kindergarten, there's so many things that you think a teacher doesn't realize that a little kid will always take with them. I remember them saying to take out a red crayon, and I was very young, but I didn't know what red was or what color. I knew crayon. Um, but I was like picking up all the colors and the teacher kind of just like didn't make me the line leader because obviously I wasn't gonna lead. So she put me all the way in the back versus like maybe teaching me this was the red and like, you know, helping me at a very young age, I knew like I was gonna be placed in the back. Stephanie Shojaee (26:06): I was a Hispanic girl, you know, my parents probably didn't even, no, not probably didn't understand what the teacher was saying. Um, nowadays I feel like the world slowly adjusted to being a little bit