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-: We are at CBA's Women in Business Breakfast.
It's a great opportunity to meet other women
that work in business and to hear
from some great leaders in our field.
-: We're celebrating women in business and sports teams
so I'm excited to hear how we can affiliate
teams and businesses together.
-: I'm in my 32nd year of being a coach
my 25th year of being a head coach
and every year
we work very hard
at developing, reinforcing, energizing our culture.
We have it serve as our foundation and our lighthouse
to be lived on a daily basis.
If you take care of your culture
your culture will take care of you.
Here's the other thing I know
about any organization, any business, any team.
That culture is really defined by its leadership.
It starts at the top and trickles down
to everyone else in a leadership position.
Your mission statement, your own personal mission statement
should be something that's short and simple
and if need be, you could recite it at gunpoint.
It's not to win softball games.
It's to work to have a positive impact
on the people around me.
Who needs you
to be a mentor?
Who needs you
for your insight and your wisdom
and your observation
today?
Who needs you?
You are all amazing.
And I just want to encourage all of you
to keep shining your light
and living, and leading out loud.
Thank you.
(applause)
-: I just have a few questions.
I wanna dig a little deeper, you know
into what we've learned today.
Take our conversation a little bit further.
-: Just to know that I can build on everything
that I was taught as a student athlete
to be a confident female.
To step into, hopefully, a roll where I can
you know be a good, positive influence
and hopefully one day then lead teams like she does
that can bring the best out of people
is just my ultimate goal down the road.
I think it's a testament to just the power and the energy
of so many of the female leaders in here.
That you're paving the way for a lot of the younger ones
coming up, and it's gonna make it a lot easier, I think
for us, because of the work you've put in.
And that'll be my goal one day, too
is to kind of pave the way
for a younger generation after me.
So thank you to all of you for continuing to show up and
to make a difference for so many people in this community
and especially some of the young women
who are aspiring to be like all of you.
-: And I have said this to her since.
You, I think, will be President one day.
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