 My best advice for women in the industry who want to fall in my footsteps is don't give a damn what anybody else thinks. Walk into the unknown with confidence and keep your head held high. You can't give up. It's hard and if it's hard it's because it's working. So just when you lose confidence or you lose hope in it is exactly when you need to dig back in and keep pressing on. We have a tendency to you know reveal our uncertainty through body language and et cetera but the reality is many people are uncertain. Men don't know any more than women. Internships and job shadowing and informational interviews were really key for me. Find someone at your company in your industry someone you're intrigued by and reach out to them and see if they're open to letting you get a sense of what a day in the life is. Seeing a problem or seeing an obstacle a barrier or a challenge and then meeting that with solution you get the opportunity especially coupled with being really good at your craft to create something new. Successful advice for salary and promotion negotiations would be always negotiate and speak up push back on the first offer. Even though you make you may feel like you're going to throw up you're going to be so nervous. I say don't be this is kind of standard especially for men sometimes that negotiation comes with if not just face salary there's other ways to negotiate when it comes to equity signing bonuses even sometimes different types of perks. Rehearse rehearse rehearse not only in your head I have a tendency to rehearse in my head and it's not the same as rehearsing with someone else rehearse with your dog if that's what you're comfortable with at first or your cat. Have your receipts have all of the facts and data of what you have done what you have contributed and why you deserve this raise and or promotion. So you must believe it yourself first fully and truly and then you can argue for it you can advocate for yourself with that confidence it becomes really undeniable irrefutable impossible to say no to when you argue it with that kind of confidence when you when you advocate for yourself that way. Remember the amount you ask for is always the highest amount you can say out loud without actually bursting out laughing.