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Kelly, thanks for joining us today. Oh, thank you so much for having me. It's my pleasure. So how would you get a started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do? Yeah, so I'm Kelly Thompson. I'm a women's leadership coach. I'm an author. I'm a speaker. And I'm on a mission to help women advance the rooms where decisions are made. And so I've done that by writing a book.

It's called Closing the Confidence Gap. I work with women one-on-one in private coaching to help them

create careers they love and lead with more confidence. I have some group programs. And on the side,

I go into organizations and do some women's leadership training. And I also dabble around with the

Enneagram a little bit and do some

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