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Erik: How do you make the most of living in a city?
Hattie: Wow, I mean, I think New York City is just—it inspires me. I feel like it's
my lover. It's like a character in my life that just like the people that I love, that
inspires me to do better and be better and just the dynamism of New York, it's not for
the faint at heart, just like being an entrepreneur is not for the faint at heart, but for me,
it doesn't matter what incredible place I've been in the world, the moment that I step
off the plane, you know, I don't care if the city is, you know, if it's hot and "fragrant."
We all know what New York smells like in the summer. Or freezing cold and I just came from
Saint Barts, I just—I feel like I'm at home. I can take a breath. And that's how I know
I love New York. And I feel like the incredible influx of culture and people and restaurants
and just the geography of New York and the architecture and the history are so inspiring.
And New York is not kind to those who are stagnant. New York forces you in a brutal
but wonderful way every day to move forward. There's just—If you're gonna survive in
New York, you have to be a progressive forward-thinking person, and this city that just has a way
of doing that to people. And I personally thrive off of it. And I feel like it's been,
you know, hugely beneficial in my business and just realistically, you know, the connections
you make in New York, this is a city that's full of some of the most, you know, successful
people in every different, you know, field and profession, and real movers and shakers
in the international world. I mean you are a little fish in a big pond. You do not come
to New York, you know, to be Joe Schmoe, the prettiest, tallest, hottest, wealthiest person
because there's always gonna be someone in this city who's more than that. You really
come here to be pushed. And I really love that about New Yorkers, in general. And it's
something that inspires me in my personal and professional life every day, and one of
the reasons that, I mean, I can wholeheartedly I just am so proud to call this city home.