she talks about advice she received, retiring senator dan killed -- dan kildy. >> we are very alike so we tend not to get ruffled. what dan said to me is be yourself, lead with your heart, stay connected to the community. so that is what i do. i am new to elected partisan politics. i spent my entire career in public policy but never put my name on a sign. i started running for the state senate, and when they asked me to do it, i said noah couple of times. so my state senate district had been redrawn and it was a republican seat and they said we think you can win it. and also, we know that if you win this seat, we will have democratic control of the michigan senate for the first time in 40 years, so a pretty compelling case. we knew there was a danger at the time of roe v. wade being overturned. january 6 had just happened. it was this moment for me of can i stand up here and do something that matters to my state and country? i ran for the state senate. i did not think i was going to win it but it did. we started doing some amazing things. getting to the end of the first year of my firs