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Rebecca, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. Hi, Shreeny. It's my pleasure. Thanks for having me. Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here. So as I was saying before we hit record here, there was one line in your pitch that was kind of the thing that made me immediately say, yes When I read the word, I phrase I'm a cortis on, I was like, holy shit, I need to know more. But before we get into all of that, as you know from being a listener, I like to start with weird questions that have nothing to do with your work. So I'm going to start asking what I think is actually kind of a fitting question given your story.

And that is what social group were you are a part of in high school and what impact did that end up having on the choices that you've made throughout your life and career?

You know, that's a very interesting question because I was one of those kids.

I started high school as a bookworm, pretty unpopular.

And then the next year I did some sports, which I felt really good about.

So I was kind of with the smart athletic kids.

And then the year after that, I fractured my spine.

And so he ended up working after school instead of playing sports. So I had a whole different friend group.

And then the last year.

It was pretty much honors classes and AP classes and stuff like that.

So I feel like every year I had a different friend group.

It made it really easy for me to shift around and get to know different types of people.

And I think how it's affected me is I'm just

curious about people. You know, people come from all different walks of life and they've fled

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