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Erik: What does it mean to be a leader in what you do?
Nina: One the main things about that is believing in what you do. I think there's a difference
between a manager and a leader and a leader is you're going through and you're inspiring
people and it's so important when you are inspiring people that you embody and love
and enjoy what you do. So being a leader, you're able to take people along with your
vision. You have a sense of what people want to do and you have a sense of what your goal
is and you have to be able to marry those so that people are doing what they want to
do too and I think that's very challenging. Managing is telling people what they need
to do you know and that it should get done but you're not really bringing in kind of
their spirit with -- along with that. You need to bring in, you know what you want,
you believe in it and how do you get the people below you to really believe in that as well.
Erik: And how is that translating into what you do and how you see yourself in the world?
Nina: Well, part of it is I have a little more flexibility but it's surrounding yourself
I think by the people where you have that shared passion. You have that shared belief
and going back to what you said about networking is, the people that have helped me along the
way, I am definitely there to help them as well and the people that haven't necessarily
helped me, I am there to help them because it doesn't matter. It's like it's not about
you did this for me and I did this for you. It's kind of you just see it as larger community.
We're part of this larger world and the more I give to other people, the more things will
come back to me. I mean it's karma. It just works that way. It's a natural thing. So when
I'm talking to somebody I mean I have this really this young woman who is just like bursting
with entrepreneurial energy and she's kind of stuck in this, this world where she is
not able to use it but she does it a lot in her personal time and I -- she's the kind
of person that she just wants to connect with me every now and again. She sends me emails.
She just needs that connection and I don't think about it as "well, what am I going to
get from her, or later on what it's going to be." It's you're putting that energy out
into the world and I know that later on when she gets herself down and she gets what she
wants, she will be helping that other person and it's that feeling, that feeling that we're
all just looking out for each other and when you're in this entrepreneurial world, I really
feel that people are doing that. Not everybody but I think the majority of the people and
some people they're not going to help you. You reach out to some people and they won't
help you or every now and again, you might have to turn someone down but that's just
part of the process.