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I promise you coming from defense contracting, I have a very thick skin.

So if you think that this doesn't have legs where my baby is

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reasons she wrote a book and built a platform to help people find mentors. Like so many of us,

Janice personally appreciates the power and potential

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Entrepreneurs were stubborn. We are a stubborn lot, and I think also part of me was very ego-driven

of like, let's get that next round. Like, let's go. Like, why why not and everything inside me told me to explore an

alternate route you gotta have incredible talent at every position it's like this huge push there are

fires burning when you're going home can you believe it such an idiot and then you go back to

this is totally going to be amazing there are so many easy ways. I have no idea what to do. Sorry, we made a mistake. But you have to time it right. Oops. Working out of a three-bedroom apartment. Stuff that just seems absolutely nutballs. Ten years later, we're like, well, that's just how you do it. We haven't made it just how you do it.

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