 Hello, everyone. Welcome back to our newsletter, and this is the Meet the Team Edition with Patty DeBeau. Hi, Patty. Hi. How are you? Good. How are you doing today, Bobbock? Great. It's nice to see you. Nice to see you too, and we're so close. We're in the same state right now, which is very exciting. I was away. Well, we can get started with our first question here. It was sort of an intro about yourself. Tell us how you get started in your career, you know, some fun tidbits. So, I am originally from Philadelphia, where I grew up, went to college. I actually went to college to study art and theater, but then changed my mind and got a math degree halfway through college. And so I started my career doing data modeling in the insurance industry. I did forecasting of natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes and stuff. Sounds really cool. It was very hard for me to just sit at a desk all day and look at numbers. And so while I learned a lot, I decided to go on to business school to do something a little bit different and found my way into consulting from there. So that's how I got my start. But I've always really loved doing work in the social sectors. That's how I found my way to PTKO. Nice. That's my favorite question or favorite thing to do with everyone is I find out like where they, how they got here. It's always interesting. Yeah, it's not what I thought I'd be doing when I went to college to study art, but who knows. That's your brains you went creative and the numbers. Yes, I find that both of those skills still help me in my career today. You know, you got to make the slides look good. What is something that people should know about you. Aside from work, I guess I am a pretty voracious reader. And I really love to read dystopian and apocalyptic fiction. It's maybe a little bit depressing. But I find it fascinating, perhaps because I know like I will not survive when this happens. I don't, I don't anticipate being the person like living in the woods and foraging for my own food, but I'm very curious about, you know, the people who think they could do those things. And so that's one of the ways that I check out and relax is about the apocalypse. Maybe reading all these books will help you in the apocalypse when it's time. Maybe I don't know. My partner and I we have a pact that we're just like, if this stuff really goes down, we're like going out in the first phase. It's like I don't know that I want to be foraging for food and fending off. What is one thing you're passionate about, or two, one or two. I am very passionate in general about kind of giving back, you know, it's sort of how I found my way to into social sector nonprofit sector work. You know, I think many of us that do this sort of work bring that passion to it but I've always been involved in in sort of nonprofit work and I credit some of my very early mentors, you know, even early in my career is working with insurance and some folks and you got me involved with the human rights campaign as a volunteer and then a board member. And that really just like spurred this whole desire to give back and work on the social issues that really affect not just me but you know others in our world and so today one of the places that I pour a lot of my passion is I'm a board member at the Department of Defense for safe housing, which provides housing and services for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. And that feels really important to me because housing is so fundamental. Like, it just is a thing I wish we could get right as a society that like, you know, housing shelter, like people need it and it's hard to expect people to, you know, thrive without it and so that has been really work I felt really connected to working with them for almost six years so. Yeah. Very cool. How do you show up for people you love. I think in general, I am very giving of my time to those people that I love, you know, and that can be in all sorts of ways I mean I try to give people what they need, you know so if friends are going through something that's like a listening ear or cooking food for people I do I like to feed people. That's just like something I was taught in my family but if I ever know folks having a rough time I will just like bring them some delicious food because I love to cook. It's beautiful. I agree, except for the cooking I hate cooking. Well maybe I can, I can bring some delicious food to you. And our last one here just like our podcast what's the song that uplifts you get to go and motivate to you. Yeah, this one's really hard because maybe this should have been my fun fact but I am like a Spotify playlist junkie I love to make playlists. I don't know maybe it was like growing up in the like 80s mix tape era, we're like curating a playlist. I think I was scanning through my list just before we got on. I think I'm going to pick. I love it by iconopop and Charlie XCX. Oh, okay. It's such a good like you can't hear that song and not just start dancing it's so comfy something. Yeah, it's so good. It's so good. I spend maybe in an ordinary amount of time making playlists on Spotify so this was a hard question but I really love the evolution of our Spotify playlist from all our folks so I like that a lot. It'll be fun to add to the playlist for our community so that's good. Thank you for joining us today Patty. It was nice having you. So having me. Thank you all for joining us and watching the Meet the Team interview with Patty. Have a great day. Have a good day everyone.