"Navigating the Job Market in Climate Media": "I wanted to build a career specifically in climate media and journalism. And definitely at the time when I was looking, there wasn't many resources or opportunities to figure out what that looked like."

Starting an Environmental Movement: "I decided to start my own podcast called Brown Girl Green, where I went around interviewing different environmental experts and leaders about the importance about diversity and inclusion and being able to get more people in the climate conversation."

Breaking Barriers in Recruitment: "We are, like, finding the balance of highlighting, you know, BIPOC run organizations and entities. And that's, like, for people who don't know what BIPOC is, that's black, indigenous, and people of color organizations and businesses."

Title: Evolution of an Online Marketplace to Industry Leader

Quote: "We started off as just an online marketplace, and now we're becoming something that's actually coming out into the world. We're partnering with universities. We're doing events, and we we wanna be so much more than just a job board and just an online presence. We wanna actually, like, really dive deep and penetrate into the industry and make, you know, ripple effects happen."

The Essence of Entrepreneurship: "I needed to be willing to take risks. I think entrepreneurship comes down to taking risk."

The New Generation of Climate Entrepreneurs: "Let me not be a gatekeeper. Let me be transparent. Let me practice things like mentorship, you know, giving back what I've been able to get. And I think practicing that form of, like, active reciprocity and circularity as a business leader returns you tenfold because at least with what we're doing, the more we're able to provide value to the people in our community, the more they're going to want to come back and use our business rather than it being like, oh, this is only for, like, the selected elite."

Diversifying Revenue Streams: "I think for us, that's been a big part of, like, how we want to, like, grow our revenue streams is, like, off of just the posting in the advertisings to think about, like, okay. How can we holistically, like, build, you know, a bigger business model that, like, has companies and organizations also be a part of our story?"

Importance of Market Research for Startups: "Yeah. I mean, I would say definitely figure out, like, realistically, like, what revenue could be generated from your business. So, like, being really honest with yourself and, like, your cofounders and the people you're working on and, like, what would the revenue streams be? Because while, you know, obviously, you could get really good investment, you know, investors are going to want to see a return on their investment."

Future of Climate Jobs: "We want to be the go to climate recruitment platform of the future."

Uncertain Times in the US: "The biggest thing that we're seeing right now is a lot of people kind of worried, I would say, with, like, this upcoming administration here in the US. There's a lot of uncertainty around what that's going to look like for, you know, the industry moving forward."