That's very nice. But that's all about that connection. And you know, and that's what being in conversation about this book has just brought even more generosity as people have shared similar things. So thank you for that. No matter Walker was an incredible American. She was born Sarah breedlove in 1867 on a cotton plantation in delta, Louisiana, and all of her family members, her parents and her four siblings had been enslaved. But she was the first freeborn child so you can imagine the joy In the sense of hope her parents must have felt the holding her two days before Christmas that year. But but then life quickly turns tragic. She's orphaned by the age of seven. She begins working as a washer woman in her very early teens, as she marries in her mid teens has a child. And then tragedy strikes again, her husband dies. So now she's widowed, and she's poor, and she's struggling. And at this time, we are at the point now where the promise in the hope of reconstruction where African Americans got their first real taste of freedom, and the beginnings of citizenship was literally ripped out from under them as as an angry white South literally rose up and took their country back and left Jim Crow behind in its wake. And this is the context in which she finds herself in her early years. And, and so it's a devastating situation. And she's a black woman in this context, right. And so she makes her way up to St. Louis, where she reconnects with her brothers who had a barber shop in St. Louis. But but a critical part of the story there, she gets connected with the St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Louis, which still exists to this day, by the way. And I tell the story in the book about how the church was one of these places that helped to lift her up, much as I was saying, for my life, is this place where she was surrounded by other black women, who were doing work in the community who were building institutions like orphanages and old folks homes and speaking truth to power regarding Jim Crow and segregation. And so she finds herself in this new kind of environment where there's a sense of hope and possibility and opportunity to get a little education and get her daughter into school and begin trying to build something for herself. And the story advances, she spends about 15 years in St. Louis, she begins working for another black woman named Annie Malone, who had a beauty products company during this time. And we need to know more about Annie Malone and celebrate her because she's equally a pioneer of this field. And is after working for any Malone that she develops her own products in haircare for black women, and she marries a man named Charles Joseph Walker. That's where the CJ Walker comes from. She calls herself madam CJ Walker puts her name and face on the product, which was revolutionary for the time, a very dark skinned woman with a broad nose and full lips, and just counters the image that was being portrayed as what beauty was and her products began to take off. And she was relentless. She was out there, promoting the products, knocking on doors going from town to town. And so eventually she makes her way to Indianapolis. And that's where she sets down roots. So this is around 1910. She incorporates the business and builds a factory sets down roots and that would become the headquarters of our company and remain so until recently, wood has been sold and is now part of the union labor Corporation. And so you can still buy madam Walker product to this day through Sephora. So it's it's it's it's an incredible story. But the real important thing here is not that she went on to become a millionaire was that she saw herself as someone who had a responsibility to her community, she saw herself who had to bring her resources to bear in the struggle for freedom. And so she began to, you know, she used her company, and what a way we would call social entrepreneurship today, but she was doing it 100 years before it was a B school buzzword, where she thought very intentionally about how the company could serve the community and create economic pathways for the downtrodden. And the people who who the Jim Crow economy wanted to keep locked into low wage, menial labor and a lot out of genuine opportunity. But you could become a walker agent, and really earn a meaningful wage and and take care of your family in ways that the rest of the Jim Crow economy wouldn't allow for. She spoke truth to power, she was a part of the anti lynching movement, the women's voting rights movement, the temperance movement, you know, so she recognized the power of her celebrity and her influence, and spoke up regularly for these issues. And she built a network of schools. And so she became an educator. And, again, in this Jim Crow environment, where, you know, black education is very political and, and is not being provided equally or adequately. But you could earn that credential and become an agent or hang your own shingle and begin doing hair care out of your own home and again, build a different pathway for yourself. But across this story, and the thing that I always like to highlight is that, you know, she ends up dying in 1919, in a $250,000.34 room mansion in Irvington on Hudson, New York, where a nearby neighbor is Mr. JOHN D. Rockefeller. And now that is not supposed to happen in Jim Crow America. But she did it anyway. But across that journey is this thread of generosity. Her philanthropy didn't begin in the fancy mansion during the last few years of her life. She didn't spend her life accumulating wealth, and it later turned to philanthropy as some of the many storied philanthropists did. She was giving when she was that poor struggling with orphan, the single mother in St. Louis, who was in just as much lead as the people, she was helping through her church, but she realized that responsibility to others and that she had to do something, even though she was still struggling. And so that's where she first reports becoming engaged, recognizing her responsibility, and really thinking about herself as what many women of that generation referred to as race women, as black women, they were race women, they were, they were dedicated to uplifting the race out of the scourge of Jim Crow, and into liberation and freedom. And so she worked hard to meet interpersonal needs, and she worked hard to bring down the structures of Jim Crow. So I think she's a very accessible model of philanthropy that any of us can gravitate towards. Because it's not about wealth. It's simply about generosity. It's not