Has anyone ever inspired you to create a more fulfilling and successful life for yourself? As a leader in your business and in your community, what are the questions that you ask yourself on a daily basis? What are the questions that keep you up at night? I am your host, Betty Collins. I am a CPA. I'm a business owner, and I partner with other women, other business owners who want to have remarkable results for themselves and for their business and their community. And I am here to help inspire you to take positive steps forward for a better life. So over the next 12 episodes and kind of this season, we're going to focus on lessons learned. We're going to you navigate maybe similar situations that you're in. And you don't have to go through what they've gone through. And I hope to challenge you that you have lessons learned in your journey that other women need to hear.

Never underestimate that part of your life and that story because it will have impact. In my opinion, we're obligated to share those life lessons. In my opinion, we have a responsibility to each other, woman to woman or Women to men. But I really believe what we've learned in our lessons over our journey are impactful, and they need to be part of how you give back and how you help others. So today I have an interesting guest and and she is awesome. I met her. She was highly recommended as a speaker for a conference. And Brady Ware has a women's initiative as most of you know, and we have an annual conference every year.

And Eileen McDargh was our keynote speaker last year, knocked it out of the park. People just loved her. And she has such a great story, and she has such insight, and she's written books. I'm gonna let her do her own bio because you you always tell your own story better. I don't wanna read that. But, she just has a great, great, has had just a great career, wonderful with inspiring women and people around her and organizations. So we're gonna talk with her today. One of the books that got, me really just loved was Gifts From The Mountain.

And she'll explain a little bit about this book, but it was just a cool end of the the art in this book is so inspiring as well. But gifts from the mountain has a great story behind it. I'll let her tell it. And then she also has this book called Your Resiliency GPS. Just great books, great reads with a lot of insight in them. So So I think you're gonna enjoy what she has to say. And this year, as I came into 2024, I came in a little, what's the Ware, maybe bruised in Ware. I had decided for some reason, I just want my world to be different, to run for public office in Gahanna, Ohio.

And it was a cool experience, actually. It was really as much as I hated losing, well, oh, I came in last, but okay. It was it was a great experience, and what I realized from that is I needed to embrace the loss. I needed to learn from the loss. It wasn't about whether I got to the seed or not, but the journey of of trying to get to the seed taught me a lot of things. And so then I said, hey. We're gonna do things on lessons learned this year. And what's great is so many people learn lessons, and they kinda keep it close to the chest.

I don't wanna do that. I want to share the lessons I've learned so you will have an easier time that other people will go, oh, if she can do this and get through it, I certainly can. And what she has to say may be help me. Right? Not it's not even about an election, but it's about the times we try things and go out there and put ourselves out there, and we might fall. We might trip. Okay. And if we help others along the way with those lessons learned, we're we're a better world. We're a better place.