powerfully, with dignity, actually using your body to say no, was actually very foundal. and i spent a lot of years working in other softer environmental organizations, the sierra club, a whole series of different sort of green movement career paths opened up for me. and then i hit a wall. i hit a place where i realized that my background as a woman, my interest in economics, my heritage which includes having indigenous blood were out of step in some ways with aspects of the environmental movement. i felt like there were these missing pieces and i wanted to sort of move off in a new direction. and i found the only way to really do that was as an entrepreneur, and so i started a series of nonprofit organizations and now recently a business. and i think there is something really powerful for me, as a woman being able to define the terms of the work, on my terms and that's really what i think invited me into the entrepreneurial space and while i would be encouraging particularly young women to look at their lives and maybe see their entrepreneurship energy. i think often wom