wow. Okay, well, it dates back to 2009 14 years ago, which I'm super proud of. I'm proud every year that it continues to grow. And yeah, I started it in 2009. My kids were seven, five and three at the time, stay at home mom, I'm still a stay at home mom, even though they're 2219. And 17. I still like to say that I'm a stay at home mom, because I am still and that full time stay at home mom. And they were taking art lessons from an upside down artist who I found from the festival the arts. So that's an every April. And yeah, she's upside down artists. And art has just gotten taken out of my kids schools, which was awful. And they need a creative outlet. I feel like kids need a creative outlet. And so I met her and I just said, Hey, do you do classes? And she said, Yes, I do. And just so happened, she lived two miles away from my house. So it was just kind of an omen. And they started these classes where they literally like make a flower upside down and then turn it right side up. And it's a flower. Yeah, cool. Anyway, so they were doing those. And then before I knew it, she wanted to open a gallery in downtown Moore. And I just start giving her advice. And she said, Why don't I hire you? And I thought hiring me for what like, what did I use my brain and eight years at that point? And she said, yeah, just marketing because it just comes natural to me. I have a degree from the University of Tulsa. So I am legit. But it just comes natural. It's just something that's easy for me to talk about and adapt to people. And so yeah, I just I've said, You know what, I'm going to start a consulting agency, I might as well try it. Like why not? It's a great gig for SEO moms. And this is pre COVID way pretty COVID. And so you didn't, you know, now I feel like we talked about our families, we talked about our kids and people if they come in to zoom, it's not too big of a deal. But back in those days you I mean, I just feel like a lot of people don't want to hire moms, even though we're the ones that do 50 things at once our time management skills are excellent. And so, so yeah, started a consulting agency didn't really super hustle at anytime, like really, really hard. Until 2011 hit and on Facebook saw Facebook event of Uptown 23rd district which is now a district but in that time hadn't even they were just forming. And so the logo wasn't even done yet. So the logo that we see wasn't even done yet. So this is pre pre, very beginning. And they were all getting together. And they were just going to talk about becoming a district and I said, Well, I look some of those businesses. I have no idea what they're talking about. I'm just gonna go Plaza District had just started getting big. And so people were starting to understand what a district kind of was. So I went and it was electric. Actually, I cannot even it was so amazing. I love just all the people, like it was just, I love people. And so it was all people, business owners, residents, city officials, like volunteers, just people that wanted to help. And so I walked away from there. And they needed me to volunteer for a couple months, because that's how districts are they have no money. None of these districts have many when they started there's a CRP program that I feel like doesn't get enough clout. That is honestly what's helped all these districts become districts, that incredible program that can people hurt with the city, and probably a team of people created for a very small budget. And they reimburse the districts basically they give them a little bit and then they reimburse them. And so they can kind of get their marketing off the off the ground and try to become this district bylaws and board members and the whole thing, so and so then after a few months, I'm in a market, they have committees and so I'm in a Marketing Committee Meeting, and Chris Lauer with big tech tacos. I will be plugging clients every now and then and people because that's just that's how I grew. Yeah. And so they were all talking about how you know, we need someone to handle our social media and we really need to keep it consistent and Crystal ours like well, let's just hire Valona she knows we have no money. And I was like, well, is that a compliment? I don't it okay, but I had no clients, which they don't they didn't know. They know now. Yeah. I, I know clients. And so I thought I thought sure. And I mean literally 300 bucks a month, they had no money 300 ollars a month and I took over all their social, created Instagram pages for them, and really started connecting to members, I took over membership got them from 30 members to 80 members in nine months, and started programs for members to I'm all about connection. Yeah, I'm all about connecting people and business owners and communities. And I didn't realize that so much until, like, in that moment, I didn't like I was so much that person, and it just comes natural. And I'm like, Well, shouldn't we have socials for our business members? And shouldn't we do these things and started the fundraising event and uptown on court, first year was in the gold dome? Yes. And which, who knows if anything will ever be in the gold dome again. But first of all, first event 400 people sold out 100 400 people a sold out made like $18,000 for them. Second year, we sold that at 600 People in the History Center. And we made like $40,000 So I was there for a couple years took over everything left them with, you know, 15 to 20,000 followers and $80,000. And, and left because I was trying to get them off the CRP program so that that money can be used for another area, you know, yeah, pass it forward. So. So then I was on my way, but while I was there, I also was then people started thinking, Oh, well, I need you at Clemson curve, you know, keep Paul from good dining who has Republic restaurant, they're in class and curve was like, Hey, I think we might need you there. So then I had class on curve as a client that nipple tells came as a client, and then the little businesses come in. And then before I knew it, I'm a full fledged marketing agency that I didn't even mean to be, I just I social media, I learned PR, I started meeting all these newscasters and they kept giving me their cell phones, we became friends, I could just to this day, I could just text newscasters and tell them stories and pitch them stories. And they trust me, we have relationships, I don't talk to them all the time. They know when I reach out that it's an important story, I think needs to be heard. And if they can make it great if they can't I get it, like I'm just gonna tell them about it. Um, so yeah, I just kind of started building this whole agency, and then they needed graphics, you know, the small businesses can't afford HMDs Yeah, and all the different ones to do every little different thing. So I just kind of package everything except for create websites. But it's super strategic. Everything is a strategic focus. And its relationship. You know, I, I, my agency really did get built in in grew because of connection and relationships. I again, didn't know that not everyone's like that until years later, when someone had called me a connector, actually Morgan Chesky, who was now with the Today Show. So cool. Morgan Chesky when he was with KFR Yeah, he was he was one of my MCs for Tom uncork the second one. Oh, let him go. Ogle and Paul Folger, and I'm sorry to drop names, but I just get so excited for you. So I'm, yeah, like it was a new world for me to get into. Yeah, right. And so yeah, they were all MCs. And he was telling me that night he goes, have you ever Is there a book maybe that's called connector? I think something or something? He's like, have you read that? And I said, No, I don't have I don't read. Like, I just don't imagination can't i can't quiet my mind enough. And he said, he said, You're a connector. And that's when I started thinking about it. And I thought does not everyone do this? I just kind of thought everyone was like this, I didn't really realize I had any kind of quality. Like it was some quality that I possessed. I really just thought everyone was like this, because my mother's like this. So I just really didn't see anything different. I was like, oh, no, I talked to people. It's not a big deal. And I can act and you know, you meet me for two minutes. You're invited to Thanksgiving dinner? Like it's not. There's, you know, there's no big walls. There's not, there's no fakeness I can't even be someone else if I'd like to. It doesn't even have a name. Right. And that's a great thing. I think so I don't know.