MoJo Motivation™ Episode 4: Raising Others Up and Rising Along with Them with Dr. Stacey Watt

Experienced physician Stacey A. Watt MD, MBA, MHPE, FASA, a pediatric anesthesiologist, proud mother of two, academic leader, community volunteer, entrepreneur, two-time NCAA All-American, and President of a multimillion-dollar nonprofit heartfully discusses confidence, empathy, collaboration, engagement, finding the right coaches and mentors, celebrating others, and the importance of raising others up, which allows us to rise in turn.

Notes:

• For more information on Dr. Stacey Watt and Swatt Consulting, visit swattconsulting.com
• For help finding your why, read Simon Sinek’s bestselling book, Start With Why
• For more information on AYM High Consultants, visit aymhigh.com
• For more episodes of MoJo Motivation™, please visit mojomotivation.com
• MoJo Motivation’s four mantra words for 2026: opportunity, generosity, authenticity, and gratitude

Episode Run Time: 34:05

Episode Recorded: January 2026

Episode Released: May 2026

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

There's two most important days of your life. The day you were born and the day you find out why.

SPEAKER_02 0:05

You can have it all. You can do the things, but it's gonna take effort, dedication, sacrifice. It's going to require the best of everything of who you are to make it work.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Welcome to another episode of Mojo Motivation, the official podcast of Aim High Consultants. I'm Fahim Mojiwala. And I'm Marty Johnson. Because everyone needs a little mo. And a little jell. Today we are so excited. Do you love that? I love it too. To welcome Dr. Stacey Watt, a dear, dear friend, colleague, mentor, citizen leader, just an amazing human being to our show, to our podcast. I'm super honored that she was able to free up her time. And we're recording on a Sunday, just so you know like how dedicated she is. On a holiday weekend Sunday. On a holiday weekend Sunday, absolutely. Thank you. So I've condensed her four-page bio, which is still not enough, to a quick intro, and then Marty's gonna finish it off. So the first part Stacy Watt, M D, N B A, M H P E, F-A-S-A, is a pediatric anesthesiologist, executive leader, and consultant based in Western New York. A former top-ranked high school discus thrower and two-time NCAA all-American, her journey from elite athletics to medicine shaped her disciplined servant heart approach to leadership.

SPEAKER_00 1:43

Board certified and deeply committed to advancing healthcare systems, she blends clinical expertise with strategic vision to drive meaningful impact at local, regional, and national events. Beyond her professional work, Stacy is an active community leader, devoted wife, and mother of two, and a proud Buffalo Bills, Sabres and Bandits fan. Welcome. Welcome, Dr. Watt. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

This is a lot of fun. Very happy to be part of it.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Wonderful.

SPEAKER_01 2:12

This is great. This is great. We talk a lot. You know, you and I, you know, you're a client, you know, we're we're mutual mentors of one another. You're definitely a much better mentor than I am, but we we we talk about so many different things, and uh, we talk about empathy and collaboration in the workplace, in the corporate workplace. And a lot of times that seems to be rare. But you still shine your light and have shown it for many, many years. I've seen you through your LinkedIn posts, through conversations with you, through lunches with you. Do you want to share a little bit about that?

SPEAKER_02 2:45

Absolutely. Um, again, thanks for having me. I absolutely wouldn't miss this for the world. And we've we've been friends, we've been colleagues, we've had again these great conversations about how important it is to not only rise yourself, but reach back and bring others with you. And not even just bringing them up, you know, in your area and arena of expertise, but bringing them up into the arena that they want to be in. And that help can be in so many different ways. Um, so again, happy to talk about servant leadership, especially. But when you're really coordinating and connecting with people and you're learning more about them and learning how you can help them and how you relate to them, I mean, it's a total different level of really being engaged.

SPEAKER_00 3:31

So many people think that to get to a higher place, get to the top, whatever your goal is to reach success, that you have to do that on the backs of other people. And you have to step on them, you have to trample on them, you have to put them down, you have to be better than. Um, but really what you what will really uh bring much more success, much more peace, much more heart, is if you just like you said, you raise the the water level so everybody rises together. And then through that you can find your specialty, you can find what really makes you shine among that. And it seems like that's what you're doing. And that's something that we try to uh try to show and try to teach our clients, but um it's something that's I I don't I don't know if it's against human nature, but it's against some of the culture that we're surrounded with.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

It's a different approach to things, yeah. And you're right. We are taught when you go into school that there can only be a certain number of A's, certain number of B's, certain number of C's, and there'll be a certain number of failures. And that's imprinted on us from an early age, yeah, that there's only a certain set that can succeed and outperform. And I'd love for us to get away from that. That's not to say that educators are wrong in any of that, because they're absolutely people learn in different speeds and excel in different areas. You know, I was great in science, not so great in like the other some of the other areas. I won't, you know, go in what I'm great at. I can relate. You know, it's it's all different. And if we can only get away from that, like only one could make it to that level. And I have been in countless boardrooms, lecture halls, everything where it becomes such a competition of only I can make it. I have to succeed. But the only way I can get there is if I trip you up, if I put you down, if I take you out of the equation, if I have a meeting without you, if I have a connection and I sort of maybe don't celebrate you in the way you should. That's a terrible way to live. Not only that, but it's it's a terrible way to behave. But also you have to look in the mirror at the end of every evening. And if you can't do that and look at yourself and say, man, I did the best I could, but I didn't only do the best I could for me, I did the best I could for everyone around me. And I can tell you, it does pay dividends. It pays greater dividends than anything else you could do. I have had countless people that have helped through the years that I have come, it has come back around. When I'm at a lecture hall or anything, they would come up and they would say something glowing. They would come and they'd put me up for some type of mentorship award or a leadership activity. Those openings happen because of who you are, the connections you make, and the person that you know you strive to be. And it really is it's such a different way of life.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

This resonates so much for me with conversations you and I have privately daily. All the time. I mean, we you know, we're all the time. We get faced with some jealousy, some bad behaviors by some other people just because we are doing our best to try. We won't go into too much detail, but we do face this kind of a negative attitude, like, oh, you're you're doing great, so let's just try to hurt you or or you know, discount what you're saying, or just and it's that's just or find faults in you for being human, which is really pathetic because we talk about authenticity as as being one of our powerful traits. And I don't know about you, but I'm very human. I have plenty of faults, and um, I'm convinced yours are much less, but I'm sure they're new. No, they're just as much, but but we talk about imperfection being the new perfection.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

It is, it is.

SPEAKER_02 7:16

It's being human, it's being human, it's being human. And if you let yourself be a little bit vulnerable, people not only will relate to you on a greater level, they'll also think to themselves, they're not perfect. I can do this too. And that's what I really try to get across to people that I coach or that I even mentor or I sponsor is you don't have to be perfect, but you have to be who you are. Yeah, and that will set you apart. Those things in being really authentic with everything about you, there's things that are spectacular about every single person. And it is using those things that are really amazing about you, and you bring those to the table in their greatest sense, you're gonna succeed, and you're gonna succeed and be happier than if you faked it.

SPEAKER_01 8:01

I want to talk about your new career, uh, right? Like your new uh pin in the hat and a feather in your cap. And I want to talk about SWATConsulting.com. And before that launched, you and I had a conversation. The fact that you wanted to empower young men and women who are uh in athletics, and I want you to talk a little bit about that because first of all, Stacy came on the program because number one, it's rare to find, I wish it was it was not as rare, but it's rare to find someone who is as accomplished as she is and still so approachable, still, you know, humble, hungry, coachable. She herself is like, okay, I'm learning every day, right? You full of integrity, enthusiasm, and intelligence, the six qualities that we look for when we bring people on the show, when we're hiring, when we're bringing them into our lives. So I saw that someone so accomplished, it's rare to have that because we see a lot of people who are like hashtag holier than thou, but they're not nearly as accomplished as you are, and they have these airs about them. So why, how did and why did you get into this consulting thing, you know? Well, first of all, thank you for the compliments.

SPEAKER_02 9:11

That was really sweet. Um, but I can tell you that when I first even thought about doing this, I had received I had had an injury happen. Um, so I had lost a little bit of the use of my shoulder for a while. And I'm not one to sit still. So I use that opportunity as I do with everything. Is what can I do with this time? What can I do to make myself, you know, more whole, you know, fill a gap in myself and do those things because we're always growing, we're always evolving. Um, and this was an opportunity when you think back and you say, what things do I want to accomplish in my life? This was on it. This was on it. I want to start something that could give back in a greater way and have this thing that I can do some good with. So I started taking coaching classes and I thought this is I I do this every day in the operating room. I do this every day when I'm lecturing, I do this every day when I'm out, you know, in even in this, even all out and around around Grand Island. They come up to me and say, hey, I've got a quick question. Can I have a coffee? Can I can talk to you? And all I thought is, absolutely. I'm always sure. Absolutely. Great. Um, no problem. Where do you want to meet? When can you, you know, when can we do this? Um, so when I first started getting into it and I took the classes and everyone was starting their own business, and I thought, well, maybe I can try my hand in that. Now, this is not to take away from me being a physician. I love what I do, I love taking care of people. Um, but this is something that sort of speaks to me as a person beyond the physician component of me. Um, so I wanted to start this, but you'd be amazed at when I told a few people about I wanted to try my hand in this immediately. Why would you do that? You know, what really? Why, why would you want to do those kind of things? You know, is this gonna replace you being a physician? Is this, you know, a lot of not negativity, but doubt was brought forth. A lot of questioning. And all I kept saying to them is this is something that's in me that I'm bringing forward, and that's okay. If if it doesn't take off and it doesn't do great, okay, I'll try something else and do something great with my time, regardless. I am gonna continue to grow as a person and I'm gonna bring as many people with me as I physically and humanly can because that's what I want to do. So this journey has been a super fun experience. I do learn every day. I knew nothing about doing posts or reels. Yeah, I enlisted my kids. And let me tell you, I've gotten such amazing feedback from my kids, but also a little bit harsh. I'm not gonna say which kid of mine, um, but you know, was very quick to point out what you're doing. Um, even on when I was like putting pictures up, um I received a lot of editing advice for my kids. And to be honest, it brought us closer. Um, it gave me some really good insight into what I thought was, you know, I thought was good. You know, they thought was, you know, as one of my my youngest said, I'll get I'll blow her in on this one. She's like, that's old. And I was like, okay, good to know. But you learn and you adapt and you you use everything as an opportunity to grow. So it was, it was truly amazing. And it's been a fun experience and role as I've gone through this. And again, you learn, you grow, you adapt. Yeah, you take those parts that you've learned into you, and you just keep going.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

I love it. You the two of you, I'm sure, connect over parenting quite a bit. I don't have children, but I had a business for many, many years and had a lot of younger employees who I considered my work kids, and we're still very close. They sent me like a beautiful giant box of gifts for Christmas, and you know, it's it's great. But they we developed a closeness where they felt comfortable to be uh critical, but positively critical, you know, and and helped me not only with technology, like honestly, I I reached the age where I realized I helped my parents now with figuring out their phones, and then I don't know how to work mine, so I would give it to my work kids and they'd tell me, you know. But um, but they were positively critical with me, which really helped me grow. And I think that's a wonderful relationship that you can have. It's not um, it's an open line of communication and an honesty. There's an honesty about it. There's something you were saying earlier, and I kept the the word I kept coming back to in my mind was confidence, not ego. And there's a big difference between ego and confidence, right? We coach a lot of our clients when we're trying to get them to add a new service or grow a new service. So let's say um specialty shipping, which is something we talked with a lot of our people about. The way to get that business is to be a specialist in it. It doesn't mean you know everything, but it means you want that business and you're gonna put on that specialist hat. But it doesn't mean that um that you feel like you're better than everyone. It just means you're confident in this one thing that you're doing and you learn along the way. It doesn't mean you know it all. And um I just think there's a lot to be said about confidence, but a danger that it could turn into ego, which would then start putting other people down versus raising them up with you. And I feel like you exemplify confidence over ego, which is beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 14:17

No, I've learned again, I can't save enough about how much I've learned from my kids, but yeah, I think this has also given them confidence to engage with me on a level of I value their input, I value what they have to say. I want them to be part of this team that I'm growing. I want them to give their best to things, I want them to see what I do and to sort of encapsulate all those great characteristics that people embody and take them with them so that they go out into the community and they can do good for themselves, for others, for you know, the Grand Island community overall. And beyond that, um I have one in the university. I'm like, go out and learn about the people you're with, but find ways to engage and to lift others up and be a cheerleader, but also be a supporter and be a great role model and be part of that. When they say about experts, it was a great thing that you said because I have dealt with quite a few um high-powered individuals that are experts in their field. And I can tell you that they have been disinvited to more panels and more discussions than I care to ad, you know, to share because it is one thing you're right to be an expert. You take everything and you learn what you can and you want to be focused on developing that part of your skill set and saying that I want to be a real good specialist in this, like in the world of anesthesia. I'm gonna take everything I learned and I'm gonna be as good as I can be, and I'm gonna learn everything I can, and I'm gonna share that. Yeah, and that's gonna be part of me, and I'm gonna take it into my armamentary and it becomes a tool that I can use to help others. It shouldn't be a tool that I hoard and then I put it underneath the desk and it's only I take it out just to beat people with. And I've seen that so many times and in so many panels that it's been, it's been truly sad to watch because you watch individuals that want, they see this individual as someone they aspire to be. They get invited on either a panel or something else, and they think, wow, I'm gonna learn so much from this individual. And the first thing the individual does that they're looking up to is beat them with the expert rod and start swinging. And it's it's terrible to watch because it's ugly. It's ugly and it's not necessary, but it's also what are you doing? You know, you're supposed to be there to help others and to elevate, not to put down and say, I am the king or queen of anything, and say that you know, I'm the best and you are not. There should never be that dividing line and any type of discussion, especially in anesthesiology in any medical field, really.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

But that is something you you need to share information and you need to to work with your peers. And um, I've mentioned this before, but I'm a I'm a cancer survivor, I'm 13 years now. Um, but I had a very rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. And when I was diagnosed by oncologist, local oncologist, right away said, This is a weird one. Like, you're going to Dana Farber right now, you're going to Boston, we're going to get consultation there. So I went there. And just the collaboration between all the doctors, sharing information to find the best treatment, which was successful. It was, it was hard, but it was successful. Um, during treatment, one uh my my primary said, Did you know that you are the topic of discussion on some top cancer boards right now? And I was like, Excuse me. He's like, There, he's like, I follow them, and your case came up, and all of these experts are talking about it because it was it was a weird one, it was a very aggressive one. And he's like, There's there's these all these conversations trying to find the best course forward, and everybody's working together, and it just I mean, yeah, yes, you know, like I yeah, what like there wasn't a competition, there wasn't a no, I'm gonna take this on. It was they were saving your life and they knew the responsibility, and um because of that, I'm still here, you know. Like I'm in bonus year 13, which is pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

And but umarty always says that, and he's always uh humble about it, and he's very grateful, and we are honored because if it wasn't that we would have never met. So I met him, you know, shortly after. I I didn't even know until a year into right. So we've known each other for 10 plus years, and so but he always says that I want to get into this segue of mentorship and accountability, which is what Aim High Consultance is all about. Had he not taken that treatment and fulfilled that with execution on his part, Stacy, that would have never happened, right? How important is it? You can the doctor can give all the medication and all the treatments and give all the instructions, but if you do not follow it like Marty followed it, it would not have been such a pretty picture as it is now. So it's very true.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

We've see, I see a lot of patients, and everyone thinks, well, in the world of anesthesia, like you, you know, what real touch do you have to people? And I said, I have the absolute best job and also the most challenging, at least that's my opinion. I have under five minutes to gain the trust of either a parent or someone. I have to learn everything about them. I have to assess the situation, I have to come up with a plan, I gotta coordinate with my surgeon, I gotta make sure the OR team's ready. And oftentimes this is in under emergency settings. Um, but to your point, when you talk about the team collaborative and sort of the mentorship and team building model, medicine is a great example of how this can work really well or really badly. Um in medicine, if the patient's not engaged and aren't taking their medications, following the instructions and doing everything, they put their lives at risk and they make everything harder for the team who are trying to save them and help them. Um, so again, it takes everyone to engage. When things turn out right, they are spectacular. Everyone wins. And I don't mean win, but I mean survives and does well and they're healthy.

SPEAKER_03 20:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:03

And everyone, you know, has that great feeling of a few four almost after a case.

SPEAKER_03 20:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

But I've also been in the opposite area where all of a sudden the team starts to argue, break apart, the patient's not engaged, they're like screaming at people, and the dynamics of families aren't supportive and patients are left out by themselves. There's countless patients that I deal with that literally have no one there. Yeah, they're there alone. And it's sad because you could see the hope is gone. And when that's gone, the survival rate goes down. And it's so sad. So I totally understand with that. But when it comes to a mentorship model, when I'm in, I see myself as one of the absolute leaders of that operating room. If I can't make sure that that patient is stable and safe for the anesthetic, for the surgeon to do what he needs to do, the team to, you know, fulfill their role of helping the surgeon, you know, coordinate that activity, get everything we need, and safely transition them out of that operating room to a care team model, not only have I not done justice to the patient, but I could put everyone at risk. And it's I have to be at the top of my game. But also, people are watching what I do, how I behave, how I carry myself, what I say, how I say it. Yes. Um and I have individuals that are coming up through medicine, and I want to make sure that they do the right thing by not only the patient, but the team that's involved. I want them to be the best shining example of what it takes to be an anesthesiologist, a physician, a team member to serve individuals. I want them to follow the right path instead of following a path of, you know, hate to say it like this, but being a jerk in the operating room, especially is sometimes celebrated. And I really don't feel that that is what we should be, you know, shining forth as like this is the great thing about medicine. But it also has to do with being, you know, with a consultant or anything that you do that puts you in front of people. People are watching.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

They're watching what you do, what you say, how you say it. I love it. I love it. I just wanted to add one more thing because we have a lot of people, Marty, especially, you know, whether it's in our industry, related industries, or in small business in general, that are gonna be watching and listening. Yeah. And Sima gets this all the time. We we take my wife on consult visits whenever there's women business owners. So we like to ask this for all of our amazing women leaders because it really helps coming from you. How do you manage that work-life balance? How do you take care of that myth? How are you such an excellent leader in the community, an excellent leader in the workplace? And how are you such an amazing mom? I wanna I wanna address that because I that's how I see you behind your back. That's what I say to Sima and to my kids. Like we see that. And thankfully, my wife is that way too. But it's but they'll tell it's it's absolutely like next to impossible. And this is the question that a lot of the women ask her. So I'm asking you on their behalf to assist with that. Happy to do so.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

Because I can tell you that I'm fortunate. I have my husband is a stay-at-home dad, and it takes a lot of pressure off me to know he's at home. He's making sure that they're off to school. It's a little granted, it's a little easier now that they're both driving. God help us all. Um, but it's it's it's a different type of thing. But I can tell you from a personal component, I want to raise, you know, the next generation. I want to raise my children to understand um that you can have it all, you can do the things, but it's gonna take effort, dedication, sacrifice. It's going to require the best of everything of who you are to make it work, to make it happen. And it's not gonna happen if you're sitting in the couch. It's not gonna happen, you know, when you're, you know, wasting your day. Um, it's not gonna happen those ways. It's gonna happen when you're talking to people, when you're engaged, when you're out there in the community, when you're doing things, when you're learning. You know, it's all those things, all those steps, putting yourself out there that you have to do if you really want something in this world and this life. And I hope my kids are listening because, you know, please, you know, be more than what you are, you know, or what you think you're capable of, because you can always do more and be more. And it that's what and people say, Well, I'm not you. No, you shouldn't be me. No, my god, you are you, you be the best you possible. And everyone has things inside of them that are special and unique and talents and things that they can share. People just don't think they're worth it and let me tell you, please, you are you are go out, learn, do those things, be that person that you want to be, because you know, and but you have to take the first step, you have to do the things that you want to do, you have to put a little bit of vulnerability to you have to share yourself, and it's hard. The first, yeah, let me tell you, it's been a learning process for me throughout my whole life. It's been my whole life of learning how to, you know, to talk in front of people, to be that person to lead. You know, it doesn't happen overnight and organically. There's no pill, there's no one crash course, there is no one thing that you do that suddenly sets you apart. It's a constant evolution of yourself that happens day by day, moment by moment, conversation by conversation, you know, event by event. It's a building process of who you are. And it's we're all under construction, if you will. And I'm not gonna be the same person I am five years from now. And I hope I'm not. If I am, I failed. And I failed myself and I failed my kids.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

I know. Oh, I just want to clap. Everything you're saying, I'm just like, yes, yes, yes, yes. But you you're hitting the nail on the head with it's our podcast name is mojo motivation. It's all about finding your mojo that and everyone's is different. Every one of our guests is different, every one of our clients is different, yours is very different than mine, than Sima's. And um, it's also the first two letters of each of our last names, Mojo Walla Johnson. So it's kind of a fun play on words, cute, right? But um, but your mojo is that thing inside you, that fire, that uniqueness, that special sauce that makes you you. And that there's no formula, there's no pill, as you said, you know, and it's you have to discover it. Some people are good at discovering it, some people might never really fully embrace it. Um, some people might be embarrassed by it. I feel a quote coming on because you know, I have to have a Fahim has a quote coming on.

SPEAKER_03 26:40

Every context is like I feel a quote coming on. Naturally, I feel a quote coming on.

SPEAKER_00 26:47

Come on, brother Fahim.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

You know, there's there's two most important days of your life: the day you were born and the day you find out why. Ooh. And and that's what it's about. But helping, we wanted to assist people find their why, get to that day faster than they thought. And I want to add, there's gonna be a lot of, dare I say, naysayers listening to this. And we want to help them change their mindset because without mindset, there's no motivation, there's no methodology. Mindset comes first. What about those people who are thinking, but what if I fail doing what I love? What about failure? What about right? All the oh, what do you say to those people? I want to ask both of you.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

Right, but that's great. Look at all the sports reels and especially see the individuals that won the championships when they were first learning. Because I can tell you, no one did it perfect. And if you give up, you'll never know where you could have been. You could have been the next person that was on the top of the podium. You could have done all those things, but you did go through. And that's why I love coaching and that's why I love the consulting work. It's sometimes everything can come within you and it just explodes and you've got it. I wish I had someone at my side when I was doing this because I think I would the time frame would have been a lot shorter of how I'm gonna do it. But that's when we got into coaching. Shortcuts to success.

SPEAKER_03 28:12

Shortcuts to success.

SPEAKER_02 28:14

It's such an amazing, empowering thing when there's someone beside you that's not telling you instructions, but saying, like, hey, have you thought of this? Have you done this? Have you or cheering you on? It's coaching, it's helping you um develop into who you're meant to be in it, but it's all inside you.

SPEAKER_00 28:31

It's not something that somebody's adding in or shoving into your body, it's something bringing helping you bring it out within yourself and developing, and just have the foot spot to start, you know, like we one quote we say a lot is perfection is the enemy of progress and the best friend of procrastination. It's uh the first part of that quote is an actual quote. I think it's in Churchill or something like that. But you've added the second part, and it it's so true though. Like so many people stall and pause. I mean, I'm speaking from major experience, you just don't get started because you are a perfectionist deep inside and you don't want to show your flaws and you don't want to be vulnerable. But just start, be vulnerable, show your flaws, screw up, make a misstep, fall into a pit. You're gonna come out, and especially if you have a coach by your side, you're gonna be having hand pulling you out and saying, Okay, what are the red flags? Let's not do that again. Let's learn from the experience. I I had a uh chat the other night with a friend of mine who I coached privately, and he was um just talking about some of these things, and there was a situation and he really felt like he failed at it. And I said, Okay, well, take a lesson from it. How do you change your process to move forward so that you're better next time? And then take this as a learning experience, not a mark against you. And it it just kind of helped the situation.

SPEAKER_02 29:50

So it's yeah, it's reflect, learn, internalize it a bit, yeah, and grow. Yeah. And and what are you gonna do different next time? But also, you know, put it, tuck it away. You have now an invaluable tool, jewel, you know, whatever you want to see it as. What a great thing to build upon, you know, and what are you up to next? So it's always like, where's your eyes going next? Like where where are you headed?

SPEAKER_00 30:14

Yeah. One thing my my mom always says, like when when you do something, when you do the right thing, or you do something good or selfless or whatever, she'll she would say it's a jewel in your crown. And that was just her phrase, it's a jewel in your crown. But she would she would save that for the good things, but not, you know, but if there was a bad thing, she wouldn't say, Oh, I took a jewel out of your crown. Like that wasn't part of the formula, it was always adding to, always adding to and not focusing on the negative things. And every time, like, I don't know, my sister or something, I'll just be like, it's a jewel and it's a nod to my mom. And um, I just I think of that a lot.

SPEAKER_01 30:47

I love that. I want to build using that. It's building and not taking it. It's encouragement. In the last few minutes that we have left, I want to get your final thoughts and final ideas. What do you want to leave the audience with, right? As an amazing mom, leader, wife, uh, human being, right? What can we do for the next generation? What advice would you like to give them?

SPEAKER_02 31:09

Well, for the next generation, start, start, take the first steps, try things, but go out there, meet people, talk. You know, and it it computers are wonderful, they can connect you, but they can isolate you as well. Make sure you share also what you know and who you are with others. Don't wall yourself off because you're you think you're protecting yourself, you're hurting yourself. Go out there, you know. You're yes, you're you're not allowing yourself to grow and share your gifts. And we all have them. Please find them. They're in there. You just have to uncover them. And sometimes you need someone to help you. Find that person, whoever it is. It could be a friend, colleague, mentor, mom, sister, you know, brother, uncles, cousins, roommate. Doesn't have a lot of people. Brother from another mother. Hey, beating. But whoever it is, you know, even and if it comes from inside you, even better. But listen, you know, go out there, do your best. And also, though, take people with you. Learn together, you know, and and when you have a chance, I want everyone that's listening to this, please, you know, go out and celebrate somebody else. Yes. Put them up for an award, put them up for something. Ask for them to join you with an event, ask them to come and join you on a panel, come to this networking event, come, you know, go see this things. Hey, you know what? We there's a position on a board, let's go, let's go, you know, and and bring them up with you because there's no greater feeling. And it will bring all of us up together.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

Can I just add 75,000 amens to everything you said?

SPEAKER_01 32:47

Yeah. And they'll explain. Yeah, and I wanted to, I wanted to end with this because you mentioned your mom, and I want to mention my late father. My dad used to, I learned this from my father, and Seaman, I operate this way, but he used to say, and for those who are listening, they can't see me, but those who are watching, they can, I always say this to people. My dad used to say, when done correctly, one and one is 11. It's exponentially. Now, this is for the exception, is all those math teachers watching, but it's just when you're done correctly and when you're when you are on a particular path, if you and your partner, your team member, your B fam, your anybody, if you are taking people with you, if you're parallel, you'll do so much more. You won't go one in one as two, you'll go like exponentially to 11. And I just love that. I love that. And I think it's very true. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you for your time, your talent, your energy, your grace, your motivation. Your light. You're light, you're light. So let's soar. Let's soar.

SPEAKER_00 33:45

Mojo Motivation is the official podcast of Aim High Consultants. Your co-hosts are Fahim Mojiwala and Marty Johnson. Special thanks to Sima Mojowala and our producer, Ryan McCarthy. Learn more at mojo motivation.com or aimhigh.com. That's a y m h i g h dot com.