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Pink, Purpose, and Finding Your People with Monet Jenkins

• Christopher Woolett • Season 1 • Episode 6

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In this episode of Beach Peeps, CSULB Vice President of Student Affairs Beth Lesen sits down with Monet Jenkins, a Business Marketing major whose journey to belonging at The Beach is filled with intention, resilience, and a whole lot of pink.

Monet opens up about originally wanting to attend an HBCU and arriving at CSULB unsure if she had made the right choice. After experiencing loneliness during her first weeks on campus, she made a powerful decision: if Long Beach wasn’t going to be her HBCU, she would create the experience she wanted for herself. From joining Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, to serving in the Black Student Union, working with the Black Scholars Program, and building meaningful mentorship connections across campus, Monet truly made The Beach her own.

She shares advice for new students navigating fear and uncertainty, emphasizing the importance of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable and taking small steps, like simply sitting next to someone in class. Monet also reflects on the power of community, mentorship, and school pride (including her love for the Beach Shops bookstore).

Monet’s story is a reminder that belonging matters and home is something you build.

SPEAKER_01

But like I said, my home on where I felt my heart belonged was at a HBCU and at Spellman. Spellman didn't have a business major, so I also wanted to go to Howard. But my mom is a single mom, and realistically that wasn't going to work for us. So I came into Cal State Long Beach. Like I said, I had my pink telfer, my pink everything, and I said, I'm gonna make Cal State Long Beach my own HBCU. And that's the And that is exactly what I did. That I tell all freshmen, first year students, um, transfer students when you get here, make your college experience what you want it to be. And that takes actually sitting down before you go to college and like, what do I want out of my experience?

SPEAKER_03

I'm Beth Lesson, Vice President of Student Affairs and Enrollment at Cal State Long Beach. And this is Beach Peeps, a podcast about students, stories, and the interesting things happening on campus and beyond. Hi Monet. Hi Beth. How are you today? I'm good. Are you a little nervous? I am. Why are you nervous?

SPEAKER_01

I'm nervous because I don't want to say the wrong thing.

SPEAKER_03

There is no wrong thing. And I talk a lot and I don't want to stutter, but I want you to talk a lot, and I don't care if you stutter. I'm excited that you're here and I'm excited that we're doing this. So just take a deep breath and pretend that there's no camera and that we're just having a conversation.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Well not like.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_03

See, you got this. You got this. Moni Jenkins. I'm loving everything. I learned it out. Okay. I'm surprised that you are not wearing pink today. That is your signature color.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I know. That's okay. I do have my pink and green bracelet. You do my pink and green bracelet. I knew it would be somewhere. I wanted to wear my Hello Kitty um Long Beach shirt, but it was a hoodie. I was like, I was like, I don't want to be the only one that like is wearing a hoodie. I know I'm wearing a sweatshirt, but honestly, I'm I really like the embroidering on this. I do too. And if the Hello Kitty doesn't pop as much, like I love bright pink, I love pastel pink, and it's kind of like a dusty pink, so it doesn't represent my pink obsession.

SPEAKER_03

I think for real, this is the first time I have seen you with not wearing pink.

SPEAKER_01

I hope I look just as good.

SPEAKER_03

You look extraordinary. But why do you wear pink all the time? Pink and green.

SPEAKER_01

I don't okay. Well, for starters, I wear pink because my mom's always put me in pink. Oh, is that right? She's had- I thought it was because of Well, actually, okay, well, yes. Okay, yes and no. So I did come to Long Beach wearing all pink, and so everybody. So this was even before. I fit right in. It's always been an obsession. My room is pink.

SPEAKER_03

I did not know that.

SPEAKER_01

Um, let me do that over. Okay, so my calculator is pink. My um pink teller bag is my go-to computer bag for school. This is all when I came in my freshman year, pink notebooks. Um, I obviously wore a pink outfit on my first day of freshman. And most days. And I've just always worn pink. My mom actually thought I was gonna be a boy, so let me not say I came in wearing like all pink when I was born. I actually my mom put me in boy clothes originally because that's what I was given because they thought I was gonna be a boy. And then she started my pink and hello kitty obsession. So I have Hello Kitties from Stuffed Animals from when I was like three still.

SPEAKER_03

So then AKA was a no-brainer for you.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, kind of, not just because of our colors. Our colors are salmon pink and apple green. That's the colors on my slit. But honestly, how um I honestly got involved with being an AK is one of my mentors that um I'm still close with to this day. She's one of my best friends' mom. And I met him in high school, and she she just is like just the best role model. She's very um reserved into herself, but she also like retired early. Her community of like her sisters, and also just like the opportunities that she told me that she received um when she had become an AK after college. It just all just was like in my head like this is going to be me one day. Yeah. And so before you ever got here, that was on your ring. That's where I found out information about my sorority that I'm in today. Which is say it full. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. Okay. Yes. That um for short we say aka. Yes, for sure we say aka, not also known as aka aka. Um, but yes, so um when I got to Cal State Long Beach, I went to the yard show that they had. They had a yard show in 2022. Yep. And that was my first experience with Greek life as a whole, seeing all the different fraternities and sororities, because I actually didn't know that there was others outside of AK. And one of the current members um that actually graduated from my chapter but was there when I was a freshman, she went to my high school. Oh and we So you made friends? I knew her face, but we had never spoken. She was a cheerleader, and that like intimidated. I was like, okay, she's a cheerleader, you know. Like, I don't know how to speak to her, but um, she um was like the sweetest person. Eventually, I just reached out and I was like, hey, like, let me hear your experience being an AK in college. And she just told me that um she loved all the different opportunities, networking other sorority members amongst the other colleges that she met. And just outside of the yard show and seeing Greek life and strolling, just hearing about like the opportunities are endless wherever you go.

SPEAKER_02

And you really love your sorority. I do, you do, I really do. Like you're you are in it. I'm in it.

SPEAKER_01

Tomorrow is our Founders Day. Um 2017, thank you. Um, and so I this is gonna be my third year celebrating. Um, and they like to call me auntie because I've been in the organization for three years, but I'm not auntie. I'm not auntie status. But that's like a little term in Greek life. I'm not auntie. But yes, I'm in it. Why do you love it so much? Okay, so the first thing that I always tell everybody is that I get to travel and I get to travel for such a cheap price. And I get to I've never when I before I came into college, I had I don't really consider Las Vegas as going out of state, even though it is in Nevada. That's the only place I had been to. Um, and I went to Nevada when I was five. So where have you gone from where has aka taken you? I've gone to Chicago, I've gone to Dallas, I've gone to Oakland. Um, this year we are going to um where are we going? We're going to we have our big conference in Las Vegas. And so we are considered the far western region because we're in the west. And then um, so we're also hosting it. And then they also have a our far western um regional um let me see, far western regional founders day celebration is actually going to be in Alaska. I will not be going to that because it's next month and I have like a no, I'm not going to Alaska. Um and um yeah, we have that coming up, but I've been to I've been able to travel to just because yes, just going to conferences and being in the organization. My favorite cons um conference was Chicago because it was my first conference. It was my first time getting to travel with my line sisters. Those are the girls that I came into um the sorority with the my freshman year. So I forgot to mention that I've been in the sorority since my freshman year. Yeah, you right away you went to right away. I knew what I wanted to do. Yeah. Um, and we went to Chicago and got to have some deep dish pizza. Yes. And like it was, and we got to meet these AKAs that go to USC. So it was our region is actually very small. Um, there was about like honestly, I think like 20 undergraduates there. So we were all just kind of very close knit, and we still talk to those same um girls at USC to this day. So it's such like I've I'm an only child for once. So just to be able to network and to be able to have sisters that I've never had before is just an experience that's nice. No, not everybody gets to experience. Yeah, that's nice.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and in addition to travel, it kind of makes your world bigger than just campus because of your connection to the AKAs and other on other campuses. Right. Like there's a whole other network. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01

So we have a graduate chapter in Long Beach. And so with our graduate chapter and our undergrad graduate chapter here at Cal State Long Beach, we kind of have like a little bit of a mentorship alignment. So when you come into the organization, you get paired with somebody in the graduate chapter that has maybe the same career path and passions that you are in. Maybe um, so like my mentor, I'm I'm business marketing major, and my mentor is somebody that does um event planning for Mattel. And I want to go into public relations and event planning. And you got this mentor through AKA.

SPEAKER_03

I got it through AKA, but this is As a freshman. And and this mentor is a professional in in at Mattel. Right, yes, mentoring you.

SPEAKER_01

Exactly. And so that's incredible. But connections that you make, like I said, it's endless. It's everywhere that you go. I can go in the airport and I'll wear my pink and green and immediately make a connection off of there. I I like to tell the story. I complimented a um a sister on her bracelet, and she sent me her bracelet just because I complimented her and said that she loved it. And she sent it to me in the mail. I love that. We we look out for each other. We look out each other. And you have some pretty famous members.

SPEAKER_03

We do. We have our Who's your most famous aka Kamala Harris? Yes.

SPEAKER_01

We have Miss Kamala Harris. Yes. Um we got to meet her in Dallas. So I we did her? We I didn't get to meet her face to face, but she was there. She was there at our conference. It was the craziest thing we found out like the day before that she was coming, and just seeing all the Secret Service, like all of the girls, not me, but all of the girls and all um that I saw, they were all fangirling over the Secret Service, taking pictures, what the hell? But um, it was like it was like I'm seeing I'm seeing you on TV and I'm seeing you're in front of me. Yes, you're in front of me. And yes, Dallas was it was a good time, but Chicago holds a special place in my heart. But I loved I love Dallas just as much.

SPEAKER_03

Amazing. And AKA is not the only thing you do on this campus. No. What else do you do on this campus?

SPEAKER_01

So I previously used to be a um the leadership development director for our Black Student Union, and with that I helped coordinate basically when students are coming on campus, making sure that they have know that there are resources available everywhere, whether not only just black resources, professional resources through the like the career development center. You have resources um available through your own majors as well. And you're like an ambassador. Yeah. That's a that's a nice way of putting it. That's a nice way of putting it. I like that word. Um, so yeah, I did a lot of that and just being able to help assist with programming that our students wanted to see. Um, I also used to be the treasurer for Queen to Queens. So that was Queen to Queens. That was an organization um that isn't currently active, but it was an organization for um women on campus to just look at one another and do exactly what we're doing right now, which is just being able to have conversations that we do and don't feel as comfortable with. And we just were able to provide like a space for us to just relax. Just connect. Yes, relax and connect. So one of the events that I helped host while I was a treasurer was um we did a Galantine's and we got gingerbread Valentine's Day houses. And um, it was like a group of like 25 of us. It was our first event, and it was really fun. I don't like gingerbread, but I like to just, you know, do things for the pictures and for the vibes. And of course, uh my gingerbread house is pink. So, and we got to wear pink and take pictures too. So you were happy?

SPEAKER_03

Yes, Valentine's Day is a is a very good holiday for your pink.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, for my pink obsession.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, and also you do something here for us.

SPEAKER_01

I do what do you do here? Work in the student affairs office and department under the Black Scholars Program. Um, and with the Black Scholars program, we provide financial aid, assistance, we do career development, we do financial workshops because a lot of our students aren't fully aware of the different financial um resources that are available in Long Beach in general. We got to, over the summer, we got to go to the farmer's merchant and bank, and we got to go to the one that was the first one that was originated here in Long Beach, and it was like a big mansion. And I remember seeing like this big old like lion or something at the top of the like. I don't know if it's a lion.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know what it was, but it was an animal. Yes, and I don't know what it represented, but it was a cool architect. Yes, it was the coolest thing, and um, I got to close like the vault too. You did? I got to close the vault, and I have a video of it because I'm so extra like that, but it was the funnest thing. We got to interview our they're one of our sponsors, so that's why we went. But just resources like that, they ended up the sponsor of what though? Because you write I write our black scholars newsletter. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03

That's what I was hoping you would talk about.

SPEAKER_01

I'm I'm a co-editor along with one of our recent editors that we just now um brought onto our team. Her name is Toy. And I write about anything that students want to hear of, whether that's writing about interviewing alumni, interviewing our faculty, of course, interviewing our students, um, highlighting community events that we're going to.

SPEAKER_03

Where do you get your ideas from?

SPEAKER_01

My head. That's it. You just come up with it. I feel like as a marketing major, like being creative is just in my blood. So the second I may see something maybe on TikTok, Miss Tracy, that is the coordinator of our program, she'll send me something on Instagram, maybe at like 10 o'clock, and just we're just like running through ideas. And I also like to ask students, like, what do you what do you like to see? Like, once I'm just hearing how they talk and I'm like, ooh, that's a good idea.

SPEAKER_03

So do you basically wander through the world looking for content? Not really, or just recognizing content.

SPEAKER_01

I like recognizing content. That would be good content. Yes. So when we had our 20% black student enrollment increase, and that was a big deal, yeah. It was. I was like, this needs to be showcased because why is nobody talking about this? That's right. And so we were like, this would be the the perfect way to showcase this and get our community involved and aware is promoting this as our marketing campaign for the gala that we were having come up in 2025. So the student enrollment increase was we found out announced in 2024, summer 2024, and that's when the Black Excellent experience happened, and I got to be a mentor for that. And just hearing about the different student experiences for why these students were coming to Long Beach, it was like, okay, I need to get some alumni, and we need to connect you guys. We need to be able to connect, we need to be able to promote, we need to be able to continue this going and be able to have good retention rates related to this.

SPEAKER_03

What has you know, there are a lot of students who come here and are not as and actively involved as you are. You're very involved and you're very intentional about what you get involved with. But what does that come from? What moha what motivated you to really throw yourself into this campus and be so connected to so much?

SPEAKER_01

So in high school I ran track and I was in Black Student Union in high school, but there wasn't like to the extent of the organizations we have now, that's it's not as many, obviously. And so I actually did not want to come to Long Beach. Um you didn't? I didn't. Why? Where did you go? Wanted to go to a HBCU. Oh, okay, and that makes sense. Yes, I wanted to go to Spelman with my best friend. We've been best friends since we were one. And she applied to go to Spelman, and then I just started looking financially, and I was like, it's not I can't make it. It wasn't realistic. Yes. So I only applied to Cal State, Long Beach, Fullerton, and Poly Pomona. Um, I got into Fullerton and I got into Long Beach. And I did want to go to Fullerton. But somehow ended up just was like, let me just end up going to Long Beach. And so I went to Long Beach because I my aunt and my uncle, they both went to Long Beach together. They met at Cerritos College and then went through their whole college experience together and are still married to this day. And they had a great experience, and they told me about that. So that's really what made me solidify my dis my decision. But like I said, my home on where I felt my heart belonged was at a HBCU and at Spellman. Spellman didn't have a business major, so I also wanted to go to Howard, but my mom is a single mom, and realistically that wasn't going to work for us. So I came into Cal State Long Beach. Like I said, I had my pink telfer, my pink everything, and I said, I'm gonna make Cal State Long Beach my own HBCU. And that's exactly what you did. That's exactly what I did. That I tell all freshmen, first year students, um, transfer students when you get here, make your college experience what you want it to be. And that takes actually sitting down before you go to college and like, what do I want out of my experience? And so originally, even though I did say I wanted to make this my HBCU experience, I actually came to school, like I knew that Long Beach was a commuter school. I none of my friends, they all went, we all separated. So I came in alone, not knowing a single person. And so I would go to class. You must have been a little scared. I was. I was sad too. I would go to class, I would go to uh my car and take naps. I did not know that we had a black resource center, and so I would go in my car and take naps for a month straight. And then eventually there is a girl in my class, her name is Chloe Thomas. Shout out to Chloe Thomas. We know her as CJ. Love Chloe Thomas. Um, co-editor for the Black Scholars.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, we loved Chloe.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, she was in um one of my classes, we're both business marketing majors, and she was one of the only black girls in my class. And so when I saw her on the first day, I was like, let me just go and sit next to the only black student that I know, and or that looks like me. And here we are today, just still very close best friends. And it literally just took me getting out of my comfort zone and being like, let me just sit next to her. And sitting next to her, we were able to help each other with homework. Eventually, helping each other homework led to her bringing me to her dorm. She dormed in the Black Pants African scholars housing. Nice. I met one of her um friends that lived in the dorms, and she is now my line sister today. She's in my organization. So this is how it works.

SPEAKER_03

It's a full is that also how you met Tyler?

SPEAKER_01

I Oh my gosh, I did meet Tyler from the dorm. See? I met Tyler from the dorms.

SPEAKER_03

Tyler So you met your line sister, you met your best friend.

SPEAKER_01

I'm then my boyfriend of almost three years. Almost three years. I think that that was a good call. It was and it really paid off. I'm like, when I think about it, I'm like, who else can say that they just sat next to somebody and that became like And it changed their lives?

SPEAKER_03

That actually happens, I think, a lot more often than people realize. And it just takes that. Those random, those random connections can really change the trajectory of your whole life, right? It changed yours.

SPEAKER_01

And she she would always invite me to her dorm being like, oh, just come to the dorms after class. And I'd be like, uh I was like a little shy. I was like, I don't want to like invade somebody's space. So it took me into almost two months of knowing her to feel comfortable doing that. But from then, like, I um went to a black student union, the first black student union meeting that we had, and the room was full of like a hundred black students. I didn't even know we had a hundred black students like Kelsey Long Beach at that point. It was the best experience to be just surrounded by other people that look like me and not being just like two people in a in a class. Um that must have filled your heart with so much joy. And they also brought us to the Black Resource Center. We took a tour there. And right during that, after the meeting, they said, anybody that wants to come study in the Black Resource Center, let's go. I was like, Resource Center, Black, let me go. And I saw that there was couches there. I was like, perfect, a couch to take my naps. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

You don't have to nap in your car anymore.

SPEAKER_01

I don't have to nap in my car in the parking structure. Um, I and then it's all it was just it felt like home. Yeah. It really felt like home. So I remember um right after, not too long at before then, I remember calling my mom in the middle of like when I'm before I was about to take a nap and crying on the phone to her because I was like, mom, I'm friendless. I don't know what I'm gonna do here. I want to go to Spelman. I was bawling my eyes on on the phone. She's like, When I just go, go to an event, go to something. And I was like, I don't know anything. thing um and I went and then we went to um they had a bowling event too at the Culture Welcome. The Black Culture Welcome had a bowling event and that's really what I met everybody. I got handed like my first party fly or two and um we all went to the party together and yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So how long would you say it was between the day that you were crying on the phone with your mom and the day that you like had a total social circle that you loved? It was literally two days after.

SPEAKER_01

Two yes days it's like I spoke it into existence.

SPEAKER_03

So for all the the students who might be out there right now feeling alone and lonely and crying and wondering if they made a bad choice and thinking that maybe they shouldn't be here because that was you. It was and then literally two days later everything changed for you. So what would you say to a student who feels lonely and like maybe they made a mistake and they don't belong here and all that. What would you say to some a student in that kind of a situation right now?

SPEAKER_01

You just have to get comfortable with the uncomfortable you have to um I used to be very shy as a kid so just going and sitting next to somebody like how I did with CJ was just out of the ordinary growing up for me. But you have to it's the only way You pushed yourself. I you that's the only way to push yourself a little bit exactly you that's you somebody can't hold your hand and do it. We're in college now and I don't have my mom walking me into school anymore. I don't have my mom calling my teachers to let me know I'm gonna be absent anymore. You have to do it yourself. You have to realize like I'm an adult and I have to do it. And if you don't that's okay. Hopefully somebody can you know come up to you and just be able to do that for you. Um but you get comfortable with the uncomfortable and that takes being able to get out of your comfort zone and just being able to find your people and that can start like with just sit next to someone in class. Yeah. Or just you know um like I said there's the black cultural welcome if you there's week of welcome so start with week of welcome I did not attend week of welcome my first semester because it was hot.

SPEAKER_03

It was scorching hot and now in retrospect you're like maybe I should have gone even though it was hot it wouldn't have taken me two months. It would not have taken me two months go and week of welcome there are all these tables and just find the table that you think you like the best. Right and talk to those people.

SPEAKER_01

Exactly that's the whole point of it it's a resource fair and you have to um you have to you have to grab onto the resources that you have and when they're right in front of you can't complain on why isn't this working for me.

SPEAKER_03

And you're connected with a lot of people on campus not just students like you're connected with Tracy you're connected who are some of the people on campus who are not students who you um value a connection with so when our previous um our previous black resource center um director Paul Carter Paul Carter he was somebody that um amazing yes he was phenomenal um he started the same year I did in 2022 so it's kind of like um he just happened to come in the resources center with snacks of course and we were looking always snacks.

SPEAKER_01

We were looking for always bring snacks we might we might like you now and so he came in with snacks and that's the perfect way to grab my heart is with food. And so he came in and I just um one day I when I was applying for my organization I needed a um letter recommendation and I had only had that one talk with him because he had food but I was like he seems friendly I messaged him like hey um can I can we like do a one-on-one so we can get to know one another and from just that alone just me going out and emailing him we sat down talked about all my passions all my interests on what I wanted to do and from that day forward um I would just go to Paul's office um whenever I take my breaks during work I just walk over and bother them in the office of belonging and including he loved you Paul and and you have Tracy here's Tracy I have this daria um outside of them I have people that don't even attend Cal State Long Beach as well I also have Miss Susan Jacobs she works in the communications department um and she's our campus advisor but she makes like when I do my newsletters I go straight to her because she also used to write newsletters too.

SPEAKER_03

Right. And so And these are all people who are so excited to work with you like they want to do so much. They'll do anything that they can to try and figure out how to support you.

SPEAKER_01

I think we don't realize is that the faculty love us. They you guys love talking to us. And why that's why we're I love that you just said that. I and it's like because I've never felt comfortable one thing I wish I would have taken advantage of was office hours. And I wish I would have taken more advantage because you guys actually love to talk to us and I've I often felt like we're like I don't want to what is the word imposed yes I didn't want to feel like that.

SPEAKER_03

You're the whole reason that we're here and like the best part of my day there's so many other things that we have to do that we don't love but the students are always what we do love. Right.

SPEAKER_01

And we just I think we just don't realize it because we just everybody's always running around in meetings and it's like dang like we don't want to feel like we're imposing you guys like we I don't know. But now you don't feel like you're imposing.

SPEAKER_03

Now you know that people really care.

SPEAKER_01

I will just I feel comfortable just walking in and feeling just going into an office and being able to just be like hey I'm here.

SPEAKER_03

So even though you wanted to go to Spelman and you did not want to come here initially and when you first got here you were super lonely and sad. Are you glad you're here?

SPEAKER_01

I am I do you love it here now? I do. That's why I'm wearing my Long Beach shirt not just not just for the podcast. Um a lot of my money goes to the bookstore. The book we have one of the best bookstores and our books we are very fortunate. And they have Hello Kitty. Yes and they have they they have Hello Kitty they have pink and green um pajamas and so my whole chapter went crazy on the pajamas last semester.

SPEAKER_03

We have everything that you need and if we don't have it we will get it for you if you just dance.

SPEAKER_01

But yes I'll I mean so now you're happy. I am and not just because of the clothes but just like of course not I can't a happily ever after situation. I can be being graduate and be an alumni and want to come back. And like I love my high school ish but I can't just like want to do that unless like I feel like I'm getting something but I could come back to Long Beach any day anytime give advice to anybody without feeling like I have to do something it's because I want to you're proud to be here I have to like I need to just give back and another reason why I feel like that is um I lived in Long Beach. I lived in North Long Beach so this side of Long Beach before coming here I was not very familiar with um my mom had me go to school in Cerritos. So I've gone to so many different community events and being able to just get so like talk to community members that I in areas that I grew up in um Dr. Joni Rick, the council member for um Northside Long Beach um just being able to get back I got to do the parade with her last year and it just it was like a full circle moment. Like I yes I lived there but I wasn't connected with the community there because I went to school in Cerritos and it's a huge difference.

SPEAKER_03

So we love having you represent us. Yes out in the community.

SPEAKER_01

You're a wonderful representative of all that this institution has to offer and the only way for you to feel like you belong here is honestly getting out and joining the community meeting somebody that has those same passions as you and that's what I've had to do Miss Tracy's made me feel more comfortable with just getting up and doing that and just being able to talk. You I like I said you guys like to hear us talk. We do talk about our experience it's my favorite thing to do. And I could talk all day but um I I just love the the feedback just the support that I get in every little thing that I do and I without a doubt I would have regretted going anywhere else.

SPEAKER_03

Thank you for doing this with me today. Thank you