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One Story Changed Everything: Victoria Schneps on Media, Mission & Meaning

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What if one life-changing moment could spark a mission that transforms millions?

In this deeply inspiring episode, Dr. Sujay sits down with Victoria Schneps—media powerhouse, community champion, and founder of Schneps Media—to uncover how purpose, resilience, and relentless passion can turn adversity into extraordinary impact. From navigating the heartbreaking diagnosis of her daughter to launching a media empire from her living room, Victoria shares the raw, real journey behind her success and the power of storytelling to change lives. You’ll discover how faith, persistence, and the courage to keep asking—no matter how many times you hear “no”—can open doors you never imagined. If you’re ready to be inspired, uplifted, and reminded that your story matters, this episode will move your heart and challenge you to think bigger. 

Learn more, explore Soul Care resources, and connect with Dr. Sujay at DrSujayGlobal.com

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SPEAKER_00

Do you ever wonder how faith fits into leadership or how to lead with both power and purpose? If you're looking for wisdom that bridges culture, confidence, and calling, then this podcast is for you. Here's Global Diplomat, Business Strategist, and Women's Empowerment icon, your host, Ambassador Susan Johnson Cook.

SPEAKER_02

Hi, and welcome to Ask Dr. Sujay. I am so delighted that you joined me today. You know, I love soul care and people who talk about the soul of the nation and who capture the soul of the nation. And one of those persons is Victoria Schnepps. She is the publisher of Schnepps Media, the largest media company in the U.S., I believe now, but certainly New York State. They own a number of newspapers and outlets, and they do a number of events for us out in the Hamptons and throughout New York State. And I am excited that Victoria spent some time with me. She is delightful. And I hope that you will get to know her as I got to know her and feel her soul, her heart and her soul for media and making things happen, and also taking care of those who matter, special needs. And so we are delighted to introduce to some and present to others Victoria Schnepps. Ask Dr. Sujay. Hi, I'm Dr. Sujay, and today I am so excited for my new friend, Victoria Schneps of Dance Papers. Welcome.

SPEAKER_01

My pleasure to be here. Congratulations on your show. It's not easy.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you. No, and you know, because you have a story, Schnepps Media, your founder, CEO. You started I'm not the CEO. My son is the CEO. I'm just the president now. That's right, president. Yeah, and I met Josh, who's wonderful. Thank you. And thank you for all the honors that you've done for me and so many. We were just in dance papers last week, actually, uh, for a show that we do at LTV called Celebration of Black Culture. And your coverage was so important. So tell us, you started as a teacher, and there's a daughter, Lara. So tell us kind of how you got into media from teacher to mother of Lara. Tell us the story of your beginnings.

SPEAKER_01

Well, you know, it's life is I call a great adventure. Yes. And for me, um, from the time I was in second grade, I wanted to be a teacher because I love Mrs. Boroff, my second grade teacher. Oh, I love it, I love it. And so I did, in fact, become a teacher and I got my master's degree and I taught. And um, my first child came after five years of marriage.

SPEAKER_03

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

To great excitement and joy. And Lara was born and turned blue in the nursery hours after her birth. Oh my goodness. And they discharged her saying she's fine. But within a few weeks, I noticed her switching of her eyes. Yes. And when I first told the pediatrician, he saw you're just a nervous mother, because it's my first child. Yes. And I said, All right. But when she went for her three-month checkup, the doctor saw the glittering of her eyes. Yes. And he said, Those are seizures. You've got to get her right off to the hospital. Oh my goodness. And from his doctor's office, we went right to the hospital. And so began the journey to see what was causing the seizures. Yes. And that was about a year's journey of the hospitals on Long Island, the hospitals in Manhattan. And you were living at Queens Open. And uh I just, you know, I'm a cockide optimist. I just couldn't believe anything terrible could happen. But finally, one of the pediatric neurologists sat us down after about a year's journey and all kinds of medications and daily nurses with shots, and my poor Lara. But we were hoping for a cure. Yes. And he told us after this meeting, you've got to come to accept that she will always be a three-month-old developmentally. She'll grow, but she will mentally only have the capacity of a three-year-old. Wow. So, you know, you fall off the seat, you cry, and you scream, and you say, Why is this happening to us? But then you pick yourself up. Catch your breath. We had to find out what to do to help her. Yes, yes. And we had a began a search and we found a place on Staten Island called Willowbrook.

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Because they had just built an infant rehabilitation center after a big scandal in the 60s with Robert Kennedy.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01

And it was a place of hope because they offered physical therapy and occupational therapy. The only one in the region, even we looked out of state, we even looked in Denmark. Someone said there's something great there. Yes. I couldn't part with my job. Of course, those are hard. Yes, yes. And so with a lot of trepidation, but hope, we brought Laura to Willowbrook. And, you know, I had a lot of friends who were lived, I lived in a vertical city of apartment houses. Yes. And um, you know, when I brought Laura there, they came to me and they said, you know, Vicky, there but for the grace of God go I. How can we all help you? Is that when work was for and that's how we started the women's organization for retarded children, which is now a passe word. Yes. But we started in my living room this organization, and I visited Laura every week. So they had volunteers coming, my little organization of power women, and then we went uh raising money for Willowbrook. Oh my goodness. But within a year of Lara's being there, Governor Rockefeller slashed the budget. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02

Now is this preceding when Geraldo Rivera were with them?

SPEAKER_01

Well, I'm coming today. So what happened was is that um Lara needed to be fed, she needed to be diapered, she couldn't sit up, she needed a wheelchair, she needed total care. And when they started slashing the budget, we as WRC, our women's group, yes, began marching and picketing. Okay, okay. Bring back the funds. Yes, was our motto. But nobody listened until a Cub reporter by the name of Geraldo Rivera was snuck into Willowbrook by one of the doctors there. And he did an expose that turned everyone's head. Wow. You know, I could still picture him on the steps of one of the buildings. And he said, I could show you the pictures of the people, I could let you hear the moaning. Yes. But how do I describe the smell?

SPEAKER_02

Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. You know, my daughter. I remember seeing it.

SPEAKER_01

How old was Lara of So Lara was just two years old. She was a baby. And you know, at that point, uh, you know, when things, you know, were going so badly, we took Lara home, but we filed a federal class action lawsuit. My goodness. My husband was a lawyer, Murray Schnepps. Yes. And he felt that this place could never be good. Don't want the return of the funds. We want it closed. Yes, yes. And Geraldo very bravely came back week after week and interviewed me, I don't know how many times. Yes. And my husband, and we appeared with Barbara Walters on TV and all the shows that. Because for them it was a one-time story. For Heraldo, he stayed with the story. He did, and that changed everyone's lives. Well, what really changed everyone's lives was the fact we won the federal class action lawsuit. Oh, okay. And that meant that the state had to close Willowbrook and in its place open group homes all around the region.

SPEAKER_02

In fact, my first church, I was a pastor, Judd House for the Development to the Lead Disabled was the new term. That's one of the group homes. And we had 12. Where was that? It was on Manhattan, Oliver Street, down near Chinatown, Chatham Square. Was as a result of your lawsuit. Thank you. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01

So, you know, that has um changed forever how people with special needs are treated. Yes. And you know, child like Lara that needed 24-7 care. Yes. This was a great alternative to have her in the community near my home. She we had a house. We actually couldn't find a house because she was in a wheelchair. Okay. So we found an apartment. Oh my goodness. This apartment was accessible. Yes. And so we opened up my group of ladies, said we redid our charter, and we said we'll be providing group homes. And we opened the very first group home for children coming out of Willowbrook. But Amiz didn't like it. It was in Littleneck, Queens. Oh my goodness, and they fought against it. Well, not only that, I had death threats. People got so crazy about us coming into the community. I had Schnepp's license plates. Yes. I had to take my license plates off. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02

So fast forward though, then you start covering Queens weekly.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I saw Heraldo's Impact. I then went on to have three more children. Oh my god. And you know, having four blessings in my home, I could not be a teacher anymore. Yeah, punch a clock. I couldn't do it. Yeah, yeah. So um I had never forgotten Geraldo's Impact. And in the back of my head, I said, someday I'd love to be in the news business. Oh my goodness. And have the impact like Heraldo did. So it was your first weekly paper, Queen's Core. So I I in my living room I started a paper called The Queen's Courier, which was in Bayside, and we covered Bayside, Whitestone, College Point. Yes. But I had a partner to start. He was a newsman. You know, my degree is in teaching. I never took a journalism course, I never took a business course. So partnership is important. Well, it was. Yeah. But he was a political editor of the Daily News, and I come from community advocacy. So we used to fight every week as to what content would go in the paper. Sure. Because we wrote every article, he and I, and we took every picture. Yes. And his son was the one who distributed it, so we kept it close. Wow. And um we would fight every week. I love it. I got the courage after about I think it was almost two years. Yes. And I said, you know, John, can I buy you out? And we loved each other. He was born on my birthday, March 10th. Okay. So we really had a bond. And I just felt, you know, he had other papers in his story, and he had another one. Uh so he says, Well, if you really want that, I said yes. And I hired another retired daily newsman. I love it, I love it.

SPEAKER_02

So now we know Dan's papers out here, but Schnepp's media is a media force. It's number one in in the New York State and number 100 in the country.

SPEAKER_01

Is that well, we have 101 media outlets now. We start with one in my living room and now we have 101.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my goodness, I love it. And that consists of digital events, print. We have webinars, we have podcasts. And your podcast is now Power Women, isn't that one of them? Yes. Yes. So you have Power Women working with you at Willowbrook to change things, and now Power Women that you interview weekly on your podcast. We have some pictures from uh her exciting career because there's so many events that you've just been monumental. Can we see some of those pictures, Zach? And you can kind of now tell us what that's with Mayor Eric Adams. So tell us what we're seeing here.

SPEAKER_01

So that was my 20th anniversary of our Power Women.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

And Eric invited us to Gracie Mansion. How wonderful. And so it was really our wonderful time to have the women come into the Gracie Mansion and the Mayor gave them this beautiful proclamation. It was a joyous night. And the next friend. Okay. So who's this? Oh, this is last week when I saw we had a press conference about our Chefs of the Hamptons event that we were raising money to the Salvation Army to help the victims in Texas. You know, there was such a terrible tragedy. It really was. And walking down the street in Main Street in Southampton was Robert Kraft. Oh my goodness. Yes. Oh my gosh, okay. At that moment, the photographer caught me. I said, you know, he said, What are you doing here? And I said, Well, we're raising money for the victims of the terrible tragedy in Texas. And would you like to make a donation? And he said, Okay, I'll go make$10,000. And that was the moment he said,$10,000. Oh, I would smile too. What's our next shot, Jack? All right. So this is the two forks? Yes. We do this taste of the two forks. We're going to be a big piece of our business or events. And we do these wonderful taste events through dance papers.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. And that's out in the Hamptons.

SPEAKER_01

That's in the Hamptons. And we're doing one in East Hampton. Every August, we do it at the clubhouse in East Hampton. Oh, I do. And we're going to be doing it at the RG NY Winery. Okay. Up in Baiting Hollow. So that's why we call it the Taste of the Two Forks. Because you know, the North Fork and the South Fork. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

I love it.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, this is one of your Power Yeah, that was one of our Power Women events. In fact, this one is in Southampton. We do it at the uh Father Alex's church. Oh, okay, at the Muse.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Oh, how beautiful. I was so that's you and I at the Palm Beach one. Yes, yes. Wasn't that fun? It was absolutely fun. And look at you always ravishingly beautiful.

SPEAKER_01

Well, that's the fun, you know. Well, that's very kind, but that's the fun of dressing up for all these wonderful occasions, right?

SPEAKER_02

Yes. And what's our next one, Zach? Oh, these are great. I want to come to the one that you're having in East Hampton. So that's your new paper last week that we were in. The next one, Zach, also has the coverage of our LTV event, Celebration of Black Culture. So that's us. So thank you for your coverage.

SPEAKER_01

Well, listen, that's what we're about. You know, this is where our niche is. Yes. The community. Yeah. And our theme is. And I started this from day one. Yeah, what's your thing? We're all about you. And we feel it. So we have to have new you in the paper. We have to have what you're doing in the paper. That's I think how we flourish. Yeah. You know, this uh 40 years. It's our 40th anniversary. Wow. 40 years. Of Schnepp's Media. But it's 65th anniversary of Dan's papers. Oh my goodness. So, you know, whoever says print is dead, print is very much alive and well. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02

And you have all the fuel for it. So I ask my guests often A plus B plus C equals your success. What's your A, B, and C? Hard work, hard work, hard work, and passion. Oh, I love it. I love it. And you really are about the you that you talk about. We're all about you. Hard work. What's a typical week like for you? I won't even ask a day.

SPEAKER_01

Because your day is run into laughing because yesterday I had four different events in one day. Oh my goodness. So the morning started with Andrew Cuomo coming to the Hampton Synagogue speaking. Yes. And that was at 10 a.m. Okay. Then at 12, I was off to the Polo uh games uh in Bridgehampton at Friends Ken and Maria Fichelle. Yes. They give their property to the polo for you know raising money for charities for causes. And then from there, uh the parish museum, one of the great institutions of the Hamptons.

SPEAKER_03

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Right there, Montauk Highway and Watermill had their gala. And you did all that in one day. This is just yesterday. Just yesterday. Oh my goodness. Wait a second, I wasn't finished. So from the galler of the uh parish house, I just stayed for the cocktail party. Um I went off to the beautiful designer home that Southampton Hospital was raising money. You come and you look at the house, magnificent. Every room has a different design. And so that was uh, you know, a culmination of the day. And then I came back um, you know, and I picked up my grandson who was joyously with me for the weekend. Okay, and we went to East Hampton to catch a bite and then back to um Quayog, where I'm at.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my goodness. That was so good. So that was just yesterday on Sunday. Oh my goodness. Well, I was honored at your Bronx Power Women, and I also came down to your Palm Beach one. And one of the things is first of all, you make us feel like queens. You are, and and that we are. And it's so much fun. It's delightful. Um, every event that I've been to is always delightful and a lot of fun. So, what gives you your inspiration and then what keeps you going for this hard work, hard work, hard work?

SPEAKER_01

Well, you know, I think it's I said that hard work, but you know, I love what I do and I do what I love.

SPEAKER_02

Mm-hmm. I love what I do and I do what I love. That's a quotable moment. Hashtag.

SPEAKER_01

Well, you know, it really I can't separate my work from my love. Yes, yes. And you know, at this stage in my life, I am a widow, so I don't have kids to run home to. Right, right. Yeah. It gives me the opportunity to do what I want when I want to. And one of the things I love is meeting the wonderful people like you. Yes. Who makes a difference in our communities. And that's what we're about. You know, my theme being we're all about you. Right. It is you who makes a difference every day. Yes. And our mission in our media, all of our media, all 101 outlets have one mission, talking about you and what you do, and enrich our communities that we live in. And I think that's really been our key to success in media.

SPEAKER_02

I think so too. You've been very generous also with your support of people and raising funds for people. That's also very important as well. I tell my kids I love the life I live and I live the life I love. So you can shed a few tears, but say she enjoyed her life. You know, this is one of my happy places. So I go between Harlem and the Hampton, Sand Carver specifically. And we have just a wonderful village where we celebrate ourselves and have some time away from the frenetic part, but also time to refuel so we can help people, which is my passion, to find the unsung sheros, those who don't get the attention in the media and bring shine the light on them and honor them.

SPEAKER_01

Well, you know, we have two things that we love to have people do. One is I started a page called Happy News. Okay. So people who have anniversaries, birthdays, you know, celebratory things happening. They could send them, it's free. They could send us their photo and a caption about what happened because happy news is very important to them. It is. And then the other part is that we do a monthly column called Acts of Kindness. People just give back. Yes. And just do something because they want to give back and be kind to someone else. Yes, yes. And that to me is what our communities are about giving back. And what's Victoria's Secrets? I've seen that column. What is that? Oh, I started that as a lock, like a little girl with a diary. Yes, yes. Because when I was a kid, I had a diary. I did too. And one that had a little lock on it, too. Remember? Yes. Yes, absolutely. Yes. And so um uh about 20 25 years ago, I went to the Democratic Convention. Yes. My daughter lived in LA and it was there. We were invited. It was the year that our Gore was born. I was there too. The argument was, you know, and being Jewish, the fact that a Jewish man could become vice president of the United States was enormous. And I had the opportunity to go to the convention and I wrote about it. Oh, I think. And my editor said, you know, this is good. Keep writing. Yes. I haven't stopped since I don't know what year that was.

SPEAKER_02

It was somewhere around 8890, because I bought my first St. John when I was in LA because I was on the beach in Sarag Harbor. I was working for Clinton the years prior to that. So I get a call from Al Gore's office. We need you at the convention to talk. They were talking about president's initiative on race. I was on the beach. I said, Well, I don't have any clothes to be on the stage tomorrow. They said, Come. I went down Rodale Drive and saw the St. John shop. It was a maroon outfit and it fit me. It was waiting for me. I walked out on that stage.

SPEAKER_01

I was like, here I am. You know, but yeah, we were at the same convention. Well, you know, it's funny how things like that stick in your mom. The dress that you do. You know, well, I remember that was the moment I began my column, and I just kind of write like a little girl about what I did. And I I hate to say it, but I do it for myself, and but other people seem to enjoy it too. Yeah, yeah. Live my life vicariously. That's that's it.

SPEAKER_02

But storytelling is really kind of how we get everyone's attention. So you tell your story through your secrets. So that's awesome. That's awesome. What's a highlight for you at this season of life? Certainly there are many, but at this season of life, what's a highlight for you? When my grandchildren come together. I was given I didn't even go in there. Yes. How many do you have?

SPEAKER_01

Six.

SPEAKER_02

Wow.

SPEAKER_01

And I was just blessed with them visiting me, and uh I uh bought a kayak. I love kayak. Okay. Um, but I bought one of those inflatable ones, and I figured, you know, I you gotta have reasons for the kids to come. You know, they're teenagers.

SPEAKER_03

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01

And so they launched the kn kayak this weekend, and I got it on video, you know. Um, what's the age range of your grand? So the youngest one is um 10. She's going into fifth grade. Okay. And the oldest is uh is going into his second year at Duke University. Oh, okay. I'm very proud of him.

SPEAKER_02

You should be. You should be.

SPEAKER_01

He's a very hard-working young man and with a big heart. Yes. He volunteers consistently at Life's Work, the organization I started. Really? The name of the organization is Lifesworth. In fact, Geraldo Rivera and Bill O'Reilly are coming to my backyard. Oh my goodness! I do a party every year in my backyard to raise money for Life's work. Okay, well. And that organization I started was um, you know, in my living room, same sofa. Yes, yes, same sofa I started in my newspapers, I started my life's room. Isn't it amazing? So it's moved with you. It has. And in fact, I when I met moved, I had no room, I gave it to my daughter. I think we can't get this sofa away into the story. Exactly. But the fact is, I do the fundraising party because we're starting a program. The organization I started in my living room is now a 70 million dollar agency. Oh my goodness. We operate about 50 group homes and day programs. Really? And have um really impacted the community. In fact, we have one up in Harlem. Really? And we have we have group homes in uh Queens, Nassau, Suffolk, okay, and day programs in Gordon City or our headquarters. Wow. So all throughout New York. All through New York. And that organization I started, now we have these group homes. We're going to start a thing called workforce programs. Yes, yes. Because many of the young people, once they turn 21 or 23, there's no schooling. Right.

SPEAKER_02

They're left at home with nothing to do. And they sit there all day, exactly.

SPEAKER_01

So we're going to start a workforce program. I love it. Where we can bet them to be the most that they can be. So one of our board members will has a cafe in a building. That's a office building. And they can work there folding the napkins. Yes, of course. And they can help clean the tables. So they could be the most that they can be, is our goal. I love that. We got Bill O'Reilly and Heraldo Rivera leading the way to raise money. Okay, because they threw a column in your paper each week. Well, that's right. So what happened was is Bill O'Reilly lives in Manhasset. Yes. And Montauk. Okay. And I knew that. You know, I had Heraldo had introduced because Geraldo and I have been friends now 50 years. Oh gosh, has it been that long? In 70 he came to Willowbrook, I think it was in 71.

SPEAKER_02

I remember it so vividly on the news because I was going into junior high school then, but it was, you know, it was the story that changed lives.

SPEAKER_01

Well, that's what impacted me to want to be in the news business when he showed us the power of the press to really kind of uh there was a groundswell of support for us. And even though it was the lawsuit that ultimately changed everything, Geraldo's reporting got everybody going together and working towards a cause and helping us. And because we could see it. We could see it. It was remarkable. It was. So, you know, that friendship with Bill, I knew he lived in Manhasset. Oh, right. And when I bought the papers in Manhasset, I called him and I said, you know, I need a good columnist to write about, you know, maybe uh I want a Democrat and a Republican. Yeah, yeah. Because I'm very much, we're not a political paper. We're down the middle. That's how we've done all of our uh 101 media. And Bill said, Well, listen, Vicky, I'm not a Republican. I'm an independent. Okay. But I do write a column every week, and I'll be glad to give it to you if you make a donation to Life's work. And why don't you call Geraldo and have him do the other side? So I called Geraldo, so they do point, counterpoint.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, I see it, and it's really well written and really well done.

SPEAKER_01

So that's how things evolve. You know, I'm not afraid to ask. Yes, yes, yes. So I think that's an important part of life to never be afraid to ask. Because if you don't ask, you don't get that's right with Bob Kraft. Exactly. I asked him, would you like to make a donation?

SPEAKER_02

I know, and that's how you get your yes. I said there can be seven no's, but there's always one yes. And so that's the.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I believe that no is never forever. Oh, I like that. So that just because they said no, you don't stop. Right, right. That's when you begin.

SPEAKER_02

That's exactly. Well, I say this. Sometimes no is a, you may think it's a rejection, but often it's a redirection. Thank you. Going somewhere else for it. Maybe it wasn't with you, but I'm gonna keep asking, like you said, but never forever. Tell me what the NO stands for me.

SPEAKER_01

No is never forever. Never forever. I love it. So my my staff has called me, I have my Vickyisms. Okay, yes. So, you know, no is never forever. And I believe that persistence pays. Yes, yes. There are things that uh sometimes we just need a little thought in our heads that keeps reminding us because I believe repetition gets results.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yes, it does.

SPEAKER_01

And I'm a teacher at heart. I've never thought of being a teacher.

SPEAKER_02

My mother was a school teacher. She taught every grade that I was in in elementary school, and then she went to become a counselor. So she knew all the math I had to study for, so I had to perform well. How'd you become a doctor? So I'm a doctor of ministry, actually. My eldest son is a doctor of medicine, but I'm a I was a pastor of a congregation, and then I now mentor women who want to go into ministry all throughout the United States. And so that's how I got my doctor of ministry actually mentoring.

SPEAKER_01

Isn't that wonderful? Yes, yes. Well, I mean, I think you know, life takes us in a direction. I mean, I never I thought I was going to be a teacher for the rest of my life. Exactly. Who knew I'd be in the media business?

SPEAKER_02

And I started in media actually before I went to seminary. I worked for WJLA TV, Washington, D.C., was an ABC affiliate, and back then they hired you over the phone. And they had a summer program, career opportunity program, and then they kept me on. And that was my first introduction to media as a producer.

SPEAKER_01

You see how life takes us, and we're kind of what does it call this full circle?

SPEAKER_02

And tonight we have a 40-year relationship. Seven of us who worked at the same station have become friends for this whole lifetime. And we meet by Zoom quarterly just to see how it was. One was an anchor, one was a director. We were all like the first black women in these areas. I was the producer, and so one was the ground crew, and we are still friends to this day. That's spectacular. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I think that that's why I love to recognize women.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Because I believe that there are so many women who have done such a tremendous job balancing all the balls in the air. Yes. And they uh do it seamlessly.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And so that's how my power women began. Yeah, you did it. In fact, we're gonna nominate you. We have Dan's papers power women in September. Okay, well, I'll be September.

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