That's kind of become my mantra of let's test and learn. And whatever I learn, let's also share that knowledge. And so those are kind of the things that you kind of learn along the way. But now sharing with everybody else, I would say to all of your listeners, it doesn't matter where you are in your career, you are a step ahead of somebody, find that somebody, and kind of be that kind of guiding light for

them or just say, hey, I'm going to transfer this knowledge to you and hopefully it'll benefit

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It is an absolute honor to have Monica Marquez on the show.

Monica, you are so many things and you've done so much in your career with your schooling.

You're a podcast host, but that's the least of it.

You have an amazing newsletter, I-I-I-A-I.

Yes.

And I think we all need those short bits of content that can really help us hone in on what do we need to know in AI and what can we use and how can we use it quickly.

And you're doing a lot in this field.

But before we get into that, love for you to talk a little bit about your backstory, because going from a first generation college student in Texas, and I used to live in Houston for several years, and I grew up in Kansas, so have the whole, you know, Midwest to South connection. I was born in Wichita, Kansas, ironically. I didn't even know that, but I'm a Lawrence girl myself.

You know, go Jayhawks. But yeah, I'd love to hear a little bit about your backstory and that

journey because to see all of the different things you've accomplished and the fact that you went

from there to here, I'm just flown away. Yeah, well, I thank you so much for having me on the show.

It's an honor for you to be kind of given your platform and kind of give me some time and space

to share my story and really kind of really democratizing access to other people to hear

about these types of stories and journeys and what we did and

what we did wrong and what you should do to kind of maybe move further in your career and faster

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