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[Anna]: You're listening to the Real Intelligence podcast
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[Anna]: presented by RXA, a leader in business intelligence and data science consulting services.
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[Anna]: We're here to bring attention to the unique stories,
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[Anna]: perspectives,
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[Anna]: challenges and success that individuals in the data industry face at every career stage. Welcome to the show.
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[Anna]: Welcome to the Real Intelligence podcast.
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[Anna]: You're on with Jason Harper, CEO and Founder of RXA and Anna Schultz, Marketing Coordinator at RXA. Our guest today is Kristie Rowley, the Principal Data Scientist and Director of Data Science at Domo.
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[Anna]: Kristie earned her PhD from Vanderbuilt University and has worked as a data scientist an organizational behavior consultant for over twenty five years.
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[Anna]: She has used data science and machine learning to effectively inform the business decisions and strategy of numerous organizations,
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[Anna]: including Fortune 500 companies,
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[Anna]: nonprofit organizations,
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[Anna]: governments and policy institutes.
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[Anna]: Dr. Rowley also specializes in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence education.
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[Anna]: Throughout her career, she has designed and taught graduate level statistics, data science, and machine learning courses at numerous universities.
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[Anna]: She has translated this experience into our current role at Domo by working with organizations
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[Anna]: to effectively
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[Anna]: develop and scale up their production data science processes and practices.
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[Anna]: Her work can be viewed in more than twenty five peer reviewed research articles
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[Anna]: that demonstrate her passion for data science and its many real world applications. Welcome to the show, Kristie.
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[Kristie]: Thank you. So nice to be here. Thanks for having me.
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[Anna]: Yeah, absolutely. So that's an incredibly impressive bio, and I know it only kinda scratches the surface of your accomplishments in your career.
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[Anna]: So we like to kinda start off our podcast by getting to know the real you. So I have a couple questions for you that we might not find the answers to you in your professional bio.
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[Anna]: The first one being, what's the one thing you'd love to be an expert at?
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[Kristie]: Oh, do I have to pick one?
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[Kristie]: You can give us a few.
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[Kristie]: Everything that I want to try, I want to be an expert at! If I had to pick one,
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[Kristie]: oh, I don't know. I think I would be, like, the
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[Kristie]: world's best guitar player. I think that's what it would be.
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[Anna]: That's awesome.
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[Anna]: Do you have any experience with other music and musical instruments or just kind of guitar?
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[Kristie]: Oh I grew up playing the piano. So I still play the piano today.
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[Kristie]: And I was classically trained in piano. But pianos are really hard to take to college and things like that.
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[Kristie]: So I started playing the guitar when I was pretty young.
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[Kristie]: I played a number of other instruments, but those are my two main instruments.
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[Kristie]: And then in terms of music, I like to song write and
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[Kristie]: and sing. So those are my four things in music, I guess.
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[Anna]: That's awesome.
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[Anna]: My second question is you mentioned to us in our previous discussion that you always wanted to be a lawyer and actually turned down a couple opportunities to attend law school. So what kind of changed your mind and drew you to a career in data?
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[Kristie]: That is true. So I am from a very very small town in Idaho.
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[Kristie]: And if you are an intelligent young women, woman, the two things that you can grow up to be is a lawyer and a doctor. Those are the two occupations that you know are professional jobs when you grow up. So I picked a lawyer.
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[Kristie]: Lots of jokes when I was growing up that I would make an excellent lawyer because I argued about things a lot,
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[Kristie]: particularly with my father who argued right back at me. So...
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[Kristie]: So I thought that's where I was headed, to law school. And I had two opportunities to go. That's what I was going to do and just kind of decided it wasn't for me. I
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[Kristie]: did some internships with some law firms and I got to shadow a few lawyers and found out that while I was really fascinated about what they did, and I would love law school, I don't know that I would have enjoyed being a lawyer.
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[Kristie]: So I changed my mind and I went the academic route and
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[Kristie]: started doing research a lot more.
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[Anna]: Cool. That's a really cool story
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[Anna]: to kinda hear what drew to that path rather than, you know, it sounds like you had a lot of options
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[Anna]: that you could have gone down. So
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[Anna]: you know, we do know that you did end up going down this route towards data and have made a really awesome name for yourself in that. So can you start off by telling us a little bit more about yourself and your career journey?
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[Kristie]: Oh,
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[Kristie]: the word I would
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[Kristie]: say to describe my career journey is meandering.
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[Kristie]: I just
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[Kristie]: meandered all over
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[Kristie]: and tried to figure out where I would fit best.
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[Kristie]: I think partially that is
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[Kristie]: a function of being a woman.
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[Kristie]: Partially, I think that
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[Kristie]: we often tend to meander a little bit before we get to where we're going, we often grow up thinking that we'll be in careers that might be gendered
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[Kristie]: in some kind of way. And figure out that we have a lot of talents and
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[Kristie]: haven't exactly received the training or the
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[Kristie]: mentoring along the way to propel us into a different career. And so I came to a place where I realized I can be good at a lot of things.
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[Kristie]: And it's really up to me to decide which one that I want to do, and which one that I'm really passionate about. And when I figured that out, it was really freeing. I wasn't, I didn't pigeon hole myself into anything. I had talents. I had abilities. I could use them in a whole bunch of ways, and I was fortunate enough to have a lot of mentors along the way
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[Kristie]: that whether they know it or not, and sometimes it was really insignificant things, they allowed me to believe that I can do things that I don't, I wouldn't have come to on my own.
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[Kristie]: So, so I've done a lot of things.
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[Kristie]: Right? I've taught English as a profession,
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[Kristie]: I was a professor.
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[Kristie]: I came to Domo, Domo made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Came to Domo about five years ago, which was a huge change
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[Kristie]: from academia. When you're in academia, you kind of believe that academia is the best home you could ever find.
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[Kristie]: And so leaving academia was really hard, and that was the most scary transition I've ever made in my whole entire life.
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[Kristie]: And I made it and it's so much fun. It's so much fun to be in tech.
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[Kristie]: I love it so much. So I don't know. I meander. I'm meander a lot, and I don't regret it. It's not very streamlined, but I've learned so much at every step along the way. And I don't know. If there are people out there who feel like they're meandering, I wouldn't necessarily discourage it. At some point, you do have to get a real job. And at some point, you do have to commit to something so you can propel yourself and be who you wanna be.
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[Kristie]: But it's okay to figure it out first.
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[Jason]: Well, I love that. And thank you, Kristie, for being part of our show today. Like, we are really honored to have you here with us and talk about your meandering. I think that's really good
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[Jason]: counsel too, to allow yourselves as
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[Jason]: people as you're exploring careers, and learning who you are and what really interests you, to allow that sort of meandering. That's a great, it's a great way of looking at it.
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[Jason]: And you've done a
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[Jason]: very effective job meandering
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[Jason]: through some really
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[Jason]: impressive jobs that anyone would love to land on. So that's good for you to continue like, to look until you found something,
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[Jason]: you know, at Domo.
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[Jason]: One of the things you said too that I found
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[Jason]: interesting. So your background,
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[Jason]: kinda hacks for finding who's a real data scientist is are they musically inclined? Because if they're not,
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[Jason]: then I start to question things because those parts of your brain from what I understand are like, so, so interconnected. So I wonder,
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[Jason]: I wonder if you had any thoughts on that, maybe tell us a little bit about how perhaps you feel music actually contributed to your career choice.
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[Kristie]: I could only speak for myself,
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[Kristie]: but for myself, I feel myself using the same part of my brain to write music as I do to come up with really creative mathematical solutions.
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[Kristie]: I don't know if that makes sense. Most of us don't feel ourselves think.
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[Kristie]: Maybe I think about it a little too much, but I feel myself using that same center
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[Kristie]: that we come up with here at Domo. That's what we do, we do custom data science solutions.
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[Kristie]: So I feel myself using all of those same neural pathways
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[Kristie]: being musical make you a great data scientist? I don't know. It makes me a way better one.
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[Kristie]: It makes me a way better data scientist.
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[Kristie]: Because I can see how things piece together, not just in code blocks but how they piece together in bigger
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[Kristie]: And so it, it's absolutely made a difference in my career.
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[Kristie]: exercises a part of your brain that is nice to keep open and not necessarily pigeon hole yourself if you're in a technical career. Data science is really weird. It's not programming.
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[Kristie]: one or two or handful of neural pathways to get your your work done. And that's usually very effective for a lot of people. I feel like when you're
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[Kristie]: you can't do that. You either have to hire people that fit each of those tasks or you have to be able to do it yourself. And I
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[Kristie]: am a do-it-yourself-er to a fault. I... This is not... I'm not bragging.
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[Kristie]: But I do, I do. And part of that, I think does have to do with being able to piece things together, and just piece different aspects of your life together in a story.
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[Jason]: Well, I think what one of the things I say
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[Jason]: probably too often is that the dirty little secret of data science is that it's more of an art that a science. And I think that creative...
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[Jason]: What you're describing, that creative process and that methodology that you're developing and writing music, that
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[Jason]: probably does actually help train and think creatively to solve these, you know, these custom
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[Jason]: data science solutions that you're putting together for your customers. I think, I think it probably does directly help. I agree with everything you're saying there. And I think
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[Jason]: one of the other questions I have too is, I mean you kinda touched on it.
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[Jason]: Being very hands on
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[Jason]: through your career, you know, at least over the history that I've gotten to know you, you have an extremely technical role, but also a very strategic role. And you're sort of straddling that back and forth between having to get in and be very strategic,
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[Jason]: and then implement and do things super technical. And so I'm wondering if you could maybe just talk about some of the, some of the methods or skills you use to sort of, like, bridge that gap to kinda level up and level down sort of as rapidly as you have to, probably oftentimes within the same day or even hour.
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[Kristie]: You are right. I don't think about that very often. So I'm glad you pointed it out.
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[Kristie]: Interestingly,
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[Kristie]: we just took the Clifton strengths assessment as a team
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[Kristie]: and strategic was my number one. It was my number one thing, and I love strategy, and I've always known that. I love it. If I didn't have it my life, I'd probably wither and die. So I would not enjoy the data science role, and getting down in the weeds and doing all of the technical things that being a data scientist requires, if I couldn't be strategic. So
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[Kristie]: I kind of do those
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[Kristie]: technical down in the weeds things because I can. And I'm proud of the fact that I can do them.
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[Kristie]: But what I really enjoy is the strategy. I don't know that I ever get away from the strategy. It's always on my mind.
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[Kristie]: My mind is always playing Tetris. Like, I'm always seeing the pieces fall and I... you know,
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[Kristie]: ten or eleven pieces that you haven't seen yet. I know where they're going to land, and how that's going to work out. And if I don't get the piece I want, I can shift things around and make it work. So I always have backup plans, and backup plans to those backup plans, because I'm always thinking about strategy.
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[Kristie]: So I like it. And I don't think I move in and out of it. I think I always think about strategy.
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[Kristie]: And I force myself to take breaks from it.
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[Kristie]: Because if you think about strategy too much, it's really, really hard to ground yourself into
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[Kristie]: So hopefully, that answers your question.
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[Jason]: I like that,
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[Jason]: that's interesting. You need to give you sort of, like,
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[Jason]: that rest or whatever to let yourself reset and take out of it. When you're taking those breaks from being strategic, is it taking a break from being strategic and coding?
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[Jason]: Or is it actual rest?
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[Kristie]: Nope. Yeah, not really.
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[Kristie]: Not really. It's just kind of retooling that strategy to get a different task done.
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[Kristie]: Thanks for pointing that out. I'm less effective at this than I thought...
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[Jason]: Something, something tells me you're still highly effective at this.
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[Jason]: I think, you know, kind of
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[Jason]: extending maybe that a little bit further and circling back also to some of the things you talked about.
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[Jason]: Throughout your career, especially, you know, being a woman in a technical field, that mentorship
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[Jason]: component. And, like, how
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[Jason]: like, the advice that you got or maybe didn't get along the way.
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[Jason]: And I think you've shared a few pieces of, I would say, wisdom for folks. But are there pieces of specific advice, you would look to give someone,
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[Jason]: you know, from a generalized mentoring perspective,
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[Jason]: for folks who are looking to their grow professionally in this space or perhaps make a career move into the space?
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[Kristie]: I have so many different ideas on that. I'll hopefully cover a couple.
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[Kristie]: the first one, and it's something that we've talked about a little bit. I had
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[Kristie]: She saw that I was talented mathematically, and she believed in me, and she's like this girl needs to be in advanced match. She has to be in advanced math classes, they happen this year. She has to be in it, she's really talented. And I was like, yeah I'm gonna be a lawyer,
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[Kristie]: who cares?
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[Kristie]: But she really believed in me
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[Kristie]: and she believed to me so much that she called my parents in. She called me and she called the principal in. And she made sure that that happened. And everybody needs a Mrs. Geery. And I didn't appreciate that nearly as much as a seventh grader.
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[Kristie]: But I certainly did when I decided not to be a lawyer and decided to go into research. I knew that I had talent in that area and somebody believed in me at some point in my life.
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[Kristie]: And that was ini seventh grade. And you're thinking, what does a seventh grade math teacher have to do, you know, when you're
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[Kristie]: 22 years old and you're going to get a PhD? How does that happen?
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[Kristie]: I can't explain it. It just does. Having somebody believing in you at some point in your life sticks with you for a really long time.
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[Kristie]: is, find mentors that believe in you. If you, and if you, if you don't have that...
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[Kristie]: Everybody needs a Mrs. Geery. Like you have to have somebody who believes in you. And not just believes in you because, hey, you're a great person, I believe in you because you're great and you're my friend. But believes in your skills and your ability to grow your skill set and your brain's ability to be flexible enough to learn and grow into roles that you care about.
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[Kristie]: So I think that would be the first one.
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[Jason]: I would, I would say Kristie on that too, for folks as you're thinking about that, that applies to both sides of the equation. And making sure that if
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