51. [Career Exploration] Chasing Dreams Amidst Challenges: Yvette's Relentless Journey to her Dream Job

Part 2 [Listen to Part 1 of this episode]: Have you ever wrestled with the ambition of following your career path only to face countless rejections and hit endless roadblocks? Meet YY (as her baseball family likes to call her), a woman who walked that path, but pressed on relentlessly toward her dream job with the Seattle Mariners. In our conversation, Yvette continues to unveil her journey of persistence, from continuous applications, internships, to bagging a rewarding opportunity with the Rainiers and the Mariners Taxi Squad during the pandemic.

We shift gears to an emotional milestone in Yvette's life - that nerve-racking three-hour interview with the Mariners, and the joyous news of her appointment that arrived just before her 30th birthday. As Yvette savoured the sweet taste of VICTORY with her incredibly supportive family, life threw a curveball - with an unexpected diagnosis. Hear how this love for the MARINERS not only brought her family closer during this tough time, but also ignited in her a desire to give back to others.

Join us as we explore the power of chasing passions with Yvette. This isn't just another success story, but a TESTAMENT to the importance of creating your own opportunities, nurturing meaningful connections, and the unyielding courage to keep propelling towards your dreams. Tune in to this empowering narrative of RESILIANCE, FAMILY SUPPORT, and the relentless pursuit of DREAMS, and be inspired to chart your own unique journey.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

And even still, you still had as your goal the Seattle Marriors. Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 2: 0:06

I think one of the things that I thought a lot about was that I really wanted to manage people. That was an area that I didn't have as much experience in. I tell people, don't overthink it, you know just. But in my own mind I was like what is the only thing that I'm lacking here? Right, I now have a lot of experience. I've done sales, I've done an execution. What have I not done? And it was management right. The Seattle Mariners never told me that I just wanted to be a well-rounded candidate. I wanted to put myself. I felt like I only had a couple, you know chances to try and present myself in the best way that I could. And how was I going to do that? And so that was something I had like. I was like really dead set on. I wanted to manage people, I wanted to learn. That was the avenue I hadn't done yet. So I had the opportunity to do that in Tacoma.

Speaker 1: 0:55

Which is why you say that's time that you say because it was just continuously growth and development. Professionally development yes.

Speaker 2: 1:03

And in the minor leagues you wear all sorts of hats. I'll be very honest, too, in that I, over the duration of this time, I always consistently applied at the Mariners Right.

Speaker 2: 1:14

I just, I think overall I probably applied six or seven times and I never even got past, you know, the internet portion where it's like submit your resume here. I never even got a email. I didn't know anybody there. The individual I knew from DECA had moved on. I did know, of course, I'd met Mandy Lincoln, but she's a very busy gal. She also was in its separate department, so I just was again. How do I stay connected? Obviously, aaa is very close to the majors. Is there anybody here that knows them Right? So I just continued on and then applied but never, never made any headway at all.

Speaker 1: 1:53

And I love, I love the fact that you kept applying and so, even though you didn't even get a response, you were like I'm just going to continue applying, yeah.

Speaker 2: 2:03

I mean, what else can you do? You know I didn't know anybody. It's, it's just this story of mine, right. Even though I didn't know anybody, I didn't really have help. It wasn't necessarily. That's not something you're giving up on yourself, right, I really did set on. I've got to try everything. One of another thing I heard from a previous supervisor was like there's multiple ways to cut a cake or a pie, like everyone has a different path. Yes, so I was always trying to see what's a different way I can get I can get there when I would hire interns, right, I remember this one gal.

Speaker 2: 2:39

She was an IT major and I remember asking her why do you want to work in baseball if you, if you're working in IT? I mean we have elements of it, but I was. You know she was applying for a Sponsorship position and she was like I love sports, I know that there's elements of IT in sports, I just want to see what it's like. And I commended her because the best way to learn and you learn from making mistakes to do that is to do it in internships. That's really when you figure out what you do and do not like it. You know, when you become a full-time employee now your livelihood depends on this position. It gets a lot harder to make big life decisions when you also have to rely on those funds to, you know, support your livelihood, and so when you're an intern, you don't necessarily have to worry about that. You get to focus on do I enjoy this part of the job? Do I enjoy this industry?

Speaker 1: 3:34

Right.

Speaker 2: 3:35

And those are the moments when you're an intern, that when you're in college, you can change your mind.

Speaker 2: 3:40

I mean you can change your mind at any point, at any point in life. I feel, and wholeheartedly believe that you can do that at any time. I just to say that in an internship or when you're in college, it's a little bit easier to do it. You don't have as many people relying on you, or maybe you know you're responsible for other people, right? It becomes harder. So I would just say, as an intern, you learn a lot. You're allowed to make mistakes, significant mistakes, right, because you're in a learning period. So I'm just the biggest proponent of internships.

Speaker 2: 4:06

I didn't know somebody who knew somebody you know. I didn't have a parent or aunts and uncles or a cousin or you know so-and-so who worked in this industry who knew somebody, right? Or you have a friend from college who then went on to do this. I didn't have anybody in my life that had that, which is at no fault of theirs, right? It's just not something that I had. So when I was with the Rainiers again, I was reaching out to partnerships Any email I could find hi here but I also couldn't really ask a lot of them, right? There was a gal Her name is Ingrid that I reached out to. I shot to same thing. Hey, here's my resume If you're ever in need of someone. This is my experience. I was very young at the time, didn't have a lot of what they were looking for. All their positions were full. She was very honest to say like, thank you, we're not hiring at the moment. And then, honestly, the pandemic hit.

Speaker 1: 5:01

OK.

Speaker 2: 5:01

And I was lucky enough to continue to work full time. We were hosting the Mariners Taxi Squad and televising those games, and so they needed someone to execute the sponsorships. So I was lucky enough to do that. During that time we had sponsors who both sponsored AAA and the majors, so folks like Boeing, e-bank, those and I'll utilize those examples right, they were sponsors of the Rainiers and the Seattle Mariners and there were moments where they would say, because of the footprint, we'd love to be able to do something together. Right, the two Mariners had a large parking lot that could be socially distant. Is there a way that Mariners players can come down to that area, since that's their taxi squad? Right, is there something we could do? So Ingrid leads the partnership department there.

Speaker 2: 5:54

She and I said, hey, let's have a meeting and see if there's something we can do to combine our partnerships and see if there's like can we do a blood drive together? Can we do this together? Right, so she and I would just meet every few months and do a think tank and say what kind of projects are you guys doing now? You know bouncing ideas off of each other, as obviously because we thought, ok, now it's going to be over in two weeks, and then it was like OK, another month. So, as time would go on, we were brainstorming ideas. Well, because of this time that I got to spend with her, it was 2021. So a couple of years later, there was a position posted and I saw it. I was like, well, I'm in a great position now. Oh, you know, I love leading this team, I love where I am. And then I, just I, just 17 year old me, who was like I don't know how or when, but one day I'm gonna work for the Seattle Maringers.

Speaker 2: 6:46

Yeah and sorry if I get emotional with this I can just hear her saying, you know like, yeah, this is what you want. I am such a loyal person. You know that I. I was like I know I need to stay here. You know like I think need me, and while they did and they're great I was like I need to do this for myself.

Speaker 2: 7:04

Yeah if I don't, I will always say what if I should have, why not? Okay, well, by the time I figured that out, the position was put there. Well then, so I again Was like I can't submit this.

Speaker 2: 7:17

So I emailed Ingrid and said hey, I saw a position was posted. Would you be willing, if I say my resume, to send it to whoever? I mean? I probably missed it for like a day. And and she let me see, let me find out. It's like okay. And I just kept telling myself like if it doesn't work out, yeah, I've obviously applied six other than this.

Speaker 2: 7:40

You know, and yes, it'll be okay, I like and I think I was just convincing myself like I like where I am at, it's fine, you know. Yeah, and at the same time my significant other is he was on the grounds crew the two come rain years. Here's my love for grounds. Again, that's what we bet. He spent, I think, a season or two with the two come rain years and then he accepted a position with the Seattle Seahawks. So he, through the pandemic, had has worked to the Seattle Seahawks on their turf management team and and here's this moment right where I'm like, okay, should I should? I know I had at this point spent that was in my 10th season in minor league baseball.

Speaker 2: 8:26

So Norwich, connecticut, with the Connecticut Tigers spoke and with the spoken Indians, and now the two come rain years, and I had put in so much time and I was like this is what I want. And I eventually was like I felt like it was just so easy for him, like I felt like all of the pieces came together so naturally for him, and so I honestly started to think like am I ever gonna make it? And it was the first time in my entire life where I doubted myself and I Afterwards was really upset that I even for a minute allowed myself to think that way. So I emailed her. I asked her would you be willing?

Speaker 2: 9:01

She said let me check and see if hindsight right, she tells me now they were at the all-star week in Colorado and so it's so busy. They're at a restaurant. Apparently they were talking about filling this position. They were going through resumes. No one had really stuck out to them, and then she was like we've got to find a new avenue for applicants. And then, boom, right when she said that she opened her email and my resume was there.

Speaker 1: 9:26

Wow.

Speaker 2: 9:29

I Obviously didn't know that, but I knew that all-star week was happening and I was like, okay, you're not gonna hear from them for at least like a week or two. Like don't get your hopes up, it's okay. Uh-huh, no telling myself like it's fine. And then, because the season was happening so fast, we're coming out of COVID, right, things are happening so quickly. She calls, she says, hey, can we have a conversation? I was like, of course, yeah, I Answered the phone. I'm like sweating. She wasn't offering me the job, you know.

Speaker 2: 9:56

I would ask would you let me apply? Because this is what the position is. It's an entry-level position. You're a director, right? It's very different. You'd be taking a pay cut. This is, you know, x, y and Z. She says. I just want to make sure that you want to apply for something like that.

Speaker 1: 10:13

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 10:15

And I said, yeah, absolutely, please. You know I will figure it out, we'll figure it out. So I did say I want to Chat with my team, with the Rainier's. I want to let them know that this is something I'm considering. I obviously know that it's not guaranteed. I just want to let them know I'm applying right. So I I had to go to work, tell them that and then I think it was Monday, wednesday I had a three hour interview, one hour with with a different individual. So I just backed back by the end like I was hoping they can see me. I was sweating, I was so stressed. Honestly, I have done a lot of interviews. I've done a lot of Internships. I was a part of DECA, that where I was trained to interview, and this was the hardest interview I'd ever had in my life. And, wow, I was just at the end of it. I remember taking this deep sigh and thinking I have done everything I could possibly do. Right, I worked so hard.

Speaker 2: 11:16

I spent 10 years in the minors. I tried to well round myself. I just tried to give the best interview I possibly could. I literally had notes all around me that they couldn't see, so if I needed like touch points or talking points, I could. I could remember what I wanted to say, like highlighted things, like remember to say this, you know, and I was like I did everything the best way I could possibly do. If it doesn't work out, I Then at least I did everything. I am, I, yes.

Speaker 1: 11:44

Yes, yeah, I'm sweating right now, right.

Speaker 2: 13:59

Oh my gosh. And then, because they're at Ulcer Week, I had to wait like weeks after interviews. I had to go through it, they have to take a chart, there's like a lot of things, or at least it felt like that. Yes, that it took forever, but in reality I think I applied in the middle of July because they were Ulster, so it would have been the second week of July and then the Friday before my 30th birthday I was offered a full-time position.

Speaker 1: 14:26

Oh my goodness, I mean, how was that?

Speaker 2: 14:30

feeling, even just like reliving it. Right now I get really choked up about it because, honestly so, when they were going through the HR elements right and plugging all of my information in my application and my resume and things, creating a profile, I think, for me, yeah, she emails me and says, hey, we're missing one document. And then she was like so my baseball family's called me YY. She's like YY, have we done this before? She was like created like a profile for you? I was like I don't think so. I've never even gotten close. She's like I have seven resumes in here for you. So they had them on files. She hadn't even realized how many times I had tried to apply there and it's like yeah.

Speaker 1: 15:16

Wow yeah.

Speaker 2: 15:19

And I mean my parents always knew this was a big deal, and this is the part where I might cry. I called them, I wanted to come home and tell them. But with the pandemic my significant other was with the Seahawks and so they were in COVID protocols at all time, getting tested every day. I couldn't risk getting anybody my dad, my parents and went on. So I called them, recorded this but basically told them this is just as much more.

Speaker 2: 15:46

More achievement as it is yours. You know, they were always. They always talked about if they needed to take out a mortgage for me to go to school. We would figure it out. They were also a part of the piece that said don't worry about them, we'll figure out what you want to do. They always they didn't understand what I wanted to do, but they never made me feel like I couldn't do it.

Speaker 1: 16:08

Oh perfect.

Speaker 2: 16:10

And yeah, my dad, I remember him saying to me. He and my mom would say if you want to sit by a heater in the winter and an air conditioning in the summer, you need to go to school and you need to do something that you love, Even now, watching my mom like she still sometimes works over nights at Walmart. She doesn't have to, it's just work ethic, right.

Speaker 1: 16:31

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 16:32

Hard workers. My dad has since retired but now is applying to be a bus driver, like they just can't sit down. But they've taken these odd jobs and I remember them working late at night and things that they would have to do right to put food on the table and to now live the life that I live. I wholeheartedly know it's because of them and yeah, so I called and said that like this is just as much your achievement as it is mine. And they're like, yay, mine.

Speaker 2: 17:02

We got to be where you wanted to be. And they really big marinerous fans. They love it. You know, I told them I was starting August 23rd and they were like great, we'll be there Friday. And I was like oh. But I also was like I don't even know how to get tickets. Like don't come here, I can't go in day one and be like hey, thank you for the job, can I have some tickets? Ingrid was great and she was like oh, my gosh, of course like no big deal my parents were there the first week.

Speaker 2: 17:34

They got to come and see everything. Ingrid took them on the field, her fireworks and you know just it was like a very much like for our family, you know, and I had started in August and so we still had two months of baseball to go. So that you know I am talking about like drinking water out of a firehouse, I mean just absorbing as much information. I really wanted to prove myself. I mean, I also went from an organization that had maybe like 30 to 40 employees to now 300, 300, 50.

Speaker 2: 18:04

It's just the scale of everything is significantly larger, and so I just really was trying to learn as much as I could and absorb what I could, and it's overwhelming that you just do it. So one of the things that the Mariners offer is full-time employees have the opportunity to have a family sweet family, friends, sweet and I was like that doesn't apply to me. I just started here.

Speaker 1: 18:28

And they're like you know it absolutely does Like you should, if there's a date available, you should try it.

Speaker 2: 18:33

And so I was like okay, because now I have, I have seven brothers and sisters, lots of aunts and uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews, and so at one point my dad was like there's 16 of us that want to come. And I was like dad, I can't ask for 16 kids Like you guys are loose. I get it, you're excited, I'm excited, but like I don't know how to do that, I can't. So that I was teasing like in the office. So my dad was kind of like they were like how is your family feeling about this? I was like a little too excited. They asked me this and they take it. And they're like, well, you have a family sweet. And so I was like they're like you should try.

Speaker 2: 19:08

So I did and I was granted a sweet September 11th and I specifically remember because my dad was in the army reserve for 14 years it was like another way to obviously make money and for a family and things like that so big military background and so he was very emotionally connected with all of the September 11th remembrance most of brother, sisters, nieces and nephews and you know he obviously got really emotional. So did my mom about. Like you know look at how beautiful our life is like we went from only ever went to maybe two or three mirror nurse games and I remember it like took everything right to show up to pay for gas.

Speaker 2: 19:53

You know, we barely ate there, we like ate on the way there, you know. And so he was like we went from not being able to afford mirror nurse tickets to now we're all sitting in a suite, you know, and he's like getting pretty emotional and I couldn't handle that. You know, they also tell us like to try and take the day off when your sweet night is happening, so that you can spend time with your family. And I, of course, didn't, because I just started and I was like no, I want to be here, I want to work. So I was like I can't cry right now, like I have to go. Do you think like I'll be back? You know, you know, say hi to some folks they're doing some tabling on the concourse and come back. And it's the seventh inning that they, they had just done the seventh inning stretch, and he asks everyone to come into the suite. Oh my gosh, my dad, I'm like what are you doing?

Speaker 2: 20:36

you know, he's like I wanted to talk to the family together and I wanted to tell you all that I met with a doctor and I've been diagnosed with prostate cancer and I was like oh my gosh. And so, oh, you know, that was a lot. And, yeah, my co-worker was asking me like how's everything going like? Is your family having so much fun? Because I had told them like I'll be right back, I need to go check on the tables. I was like I'll be back, I need to go check on the table, right, I just I kind of needed to get out of the room because I didn't want that. I, I still have my siblings that I try to be strong for, and so I was like yeah right.

Speaker 2: 21:22

So I come out and my co-worker is with me and she's like how's everything going? And I just I'm sorry, I asked like you don't have to tell me, and I was like no, it's funny to laugh now, but you know, I and I was like I'm sorry, like I just my dad was just diagnosed and I didn't really know this guy. She was wonderful and was like I'm really gave me a big hug and she can go back, like I was like no, I want to work. You know, yeah, want to do this.

Speaker 2: 21:49

And you know I go back and my family's together and we've always loved the Mariners. It was the one thing. You know we always ate dinner as a family and then we always watched the Mariners together. So I think there was some solace and that we all got to do that together. We got to be with the Mariners, going through something like that with my dad and with each other and at the end of the day, you have your family and that's what life is about family and taking care of one another.

Speaker 2: 22:17

And we obviously had a lot of questions. My sister is now a nurse, so she had a lot of technical questions to ask, right, and yeah, it was a. It was a heavy day. They obviously stayed with, they stayed in the area that weekend and so the next day we had a lot of conversation about you know what we do from here and he was like I'm just so proud that I got to see you succeed in where you wanted to go. Yeah, you know. And I was like why didn't do? I think in his mind he's like he says to me you're gonna be okay, you know, like you've made it, you're independent, you can take care of yourself. Like you don't need me anymore. And I was like I'll always need you and mom.

Speaker 1: 22:55

Yeah, I.

Speaker 2: 22:56

Didn't deal all of this so that you could pass away and I understand what you, what you mean, you know, and so that first year was like very heavy that we, we have a very Emotional connection to the Mariners you know like another element of that, and so we were reflecting on all of those things.

Speaker 2: 23:16

So, of course, now it's been a couple of years, he's on a bid in September of 2021. He's now on medication they eat. Prostate cancer is a very slow moving, so they were saying, as long as it doesn't get outrageous, you, you can monitor this with medication. So that's currently where he is. He's doing okay. He's still as stubborn as ever, wants to eat steak and do whatever he wants to do. He's doing fine right now you know well, you just hope. You hope in God, in the medication and you.

Speaker 2: 23:45

You know, look from there but again just really glad that the Mariners gave us that opportunity to all be together through something like that. So, yeah, I just love them so much and I'm just so grateful to be in the physician that I'm in now. And I think that a lot of people ask what do you want to do now Like this? It's a very overwhelming question for me. The only thing that I know or like is trying to pay it forward right.

Speaker 2: 24:13

Any time someone wants to have a conversation, anytime someone wants to come to the ballpark and ask questions or do an informational meeting, anytime I can have a speaking opportunity or share my story or getting. I just spoke to the DECA Conference that I actually attended when I was. I was not those kiddos who were, I sat in the same exact seat, you know. So I try to give back in those elements and show them not only am I a first-generation college student, but I'm a Hispanic female in a yes tree and so I try to be a big form of representation.

Speaker 2: 24:48

I try to walk the ballpark so that little girls can see me in a professional format right, because you have athletes on the field. I appreciate OO rain and what they do and the women's World Cup and I'm glad that those opportunities are Becoming more and more visible and the way that I feel like I make that impact is trying to present in the ballpark, trying to say hello. We're trying to my colleges it doesn't even have to be my alma mater, like I have spoken to Gonzaga, always willing for WSU and whoever else you know, always happy to To have a conversation, and I try and help interns learn as much as they can. Or, again, anything I can do I'm always willing to.

Speaker 1: 25:28

There were people there for me and I want to be that oh, oh, my goodness, and I thank you for that, because this is what this is about. It's about having proof of what's possible for others, because, unfortunately, and especially first-gen and People who don't have, or students who don't have, parents who went to college or family- members Even or even know people that have gone to college or have a professional career.

Speaker 1: 25:57

You, you don't know what's out there and you have to depend on people like you, me and people that are out there To share the stories, to share what's, the opportunities that are available for them right.

Speaker 2: 26:11

That I completely agree with you, especially, I think, when folks ask me what's the hardest part about being first-generation? That was it. I didn't know what resources were available to me. Yeah, I want to give you an example. So there is one of the baseball players who played on the Pasco High School baseball team that I was friends with and I played softball he and I. He was a wonderful human being. He was always so happy and he also is a Migrant student. Right, he is now a teacher at students middle school who for migrant students right, spanish-speaking only students. He, in and of himself, has brought it upon himself to figure out ways to, to find funding so that these kiddos who excel in mathematics and different areas of their schooling, he's figured out how to fund buses to bust them from middle school to high school so that they can continue on in this, in excel in academics. Yeah, even though you know they don't know what it could do for them, right he?

Speaker 2: 27:08

knows it and they don't know it takes people like that. He looks at me like I'm so proud of you, like I think it's all you do. They came to the ballpark, gave them tickets to our commissioners program. We brought 60 kiddos out. They figured out how to bust them here. We paid for their parking. We everyone helped with meals, like it was kind of like it takes a village right.

Speaker 2: 27:28

Yeah and I was like I look at you, like I maybe get to see these 60 kiddos. You get to see hundreds throughout the year that they come through. I was like I, I'm, I'm a slipper of this. You get to affect lives daily. Like I just the same thing with you. Right, you're using your platform to reach hundreds of kiddos. And like, yeah, I just it takes so many people and I didn't realize when I was young that there were so many people who wanted you to succeed. You just didn't know how to tap it resources, you didn't know what was available. So just trying to find as much information because, exactly to your point, right, people had done so much to provide resources. But it's your responsibility, my responsibility, to find those, to seek those out.

Speaker 1: 28:15

Absolutely, and here's the thing, even me. I've been in education for basically all my career life. As I'm interviewing people, I'm here about opportunities that I wouldn't even know about, and this is my field of study, this is my career.

Speaker 2: 28:31

There's just so many now. And there's a community right, yes, that wants to see the youth succeed, and I completely agree with you. It's just like you don't know what you don't know. And how can we help? How can I help?

Speaker 1: 28:45

Yes, absolutely. And then through your story and I want listeners to really get inspired by this because, unfortunately, with social media especially, we only know the end story. We only know Yvette is working for the mirror until today, and I'm sure you've shared your story on other platforms but for us, until today, we know the story and the history that went behind it, and it wasn't an overnight what people call overnight success. It was 10 years of putting in the effort, putting yourself out there and meeting people and not being discouraged when you had multiple noses or no responses.

Speaker 2: 29:29

Yeah, I get a lot is that's a long time to want something so badly? How do you not give up, and honestly, even now in your careers? I've been in my career for a long time and you work long hours. You work holidays, right? Sports is entertainment, so you have to be available to people when they're off. I don't often get to go home in the summer months, right, like my nieces are in softball now and I would love to watch them play, but sometimes I just can't because I have a game.

Speaker 2: 30:01

It's just things like that and I hold on to why.

Speaker 1: 30:05

I'm doing this.

Speaker 2: 30:06

Where you know. I think everyone needs to find their why and hold on to that, because that is what fuels my passion. Right and as long as you're passionate, this, it'll always be fun, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 30:20

Absolutely, and I read this recently in this book that I'm reading and I really love the way it says that, instead of reaching for the goal, enjoy the process that's getting you to the goal. And I think, throughout your story, when you shared your career journey, you've enjoyed the process. Yeah, there was an ultimate goal, but you know you've enjoyed the opportunities, the things that have come across your way, and I think that's when it's all worth it.

Speaker 2: 30:49

Yeah, and I am still someone who needs to take my own advice on those elements right Is to enjoy the moment. Yeah, yeah, here in the majors they do a really good job of saying make sure you take a break, you look around. This is going to be a very special day. You know, in a few weeks we're going to induct Felix Fernandez into the Hall of Fame, and that's a big deal. I mean, we all watch him play his, his no-no that he threw Like it's. These are moments in history where people honestly say like I was there or we're you know, and so we try to remind each other Like remember to take this in. What do you see, what do you feel, what do you smell. But it does. That is an intentional act. I hope that everybody gets to find something that they truly love and give themselves the opportunity and the confidence to know that you can also do it too.

Speaker 1: 31:45

I love it and we are going to wrap it up with that. That was beautiful. Thank you so much, yvette. Your story has been very inspirational and hopefully this for parents and students to know that you can create your own opportunities. You can create your own network, your own community of people that you can reach out to by honesty. We have it easier than ever right now to be quite honest, and it just takes a phone call and email or a personal interaction that can really change your life.

Speaker 2: 32:21

Yeah, especially in a virtual era that we're living in, right, there's more opportunities for conversations coast to coast like this, right. Who are willing to do that?

Speaker 1: 32:30

Yes, yes. So everyone, go put yourself out there, go get yourself in the room. Yes, I love it. Thank you, yvette, for spending your time with us. Thank you for your story and hopefully we get to stay in touch and hear more about your career journey.

Speaker 2: 32:49

Oh, thank you so much. This was so fun. Yes, more than happy to help. Please reach out and let's definitely stay connected. Thank you for all you do.

Speaker 1: 32:56

Thank you. And even still, you still had as your goal the Seattle Mariers.

Speaker 2: 33:03

Oh, absolutely.