-: The thing I like most about what I'm doing
is the position that the job puts me in.
And it puts me in a few places.
One, I'm in a position to help all sorts of clients.
The most sophisticated clients in the world,
people that you've heard of that you never even thought
that you would get to meet in your lifetime.
I get to have an impact on young people.
In fact, I'm the co-founder
of the Women's Business Alliance at Morgan Stanley
and I'm very focused on retention and development of women.
Seeing a woman that you mentor
achieve the managing director title
is the best fulfillment you can get in a career.
The other thing that's great about my role is,
it puts me into a position to meet some really cool people.
I've been able to interview Arianna Huffington.
I've met Venus Williams, I've met Michael Phelps.
All because of things that we have done for our clients
and I've been in the middle of.
And that's exciting and those are the types of things
that make you love your job beyond just the day to day.
I think the biggest challenge
in a sales and trading environment
is how fast paced it is.
You really feel like you are running a four minute mile
of a marathon on a daily basis.
Literally, it is hard to even sometimes find time to eat
and so the biggest challenge is to know
when to cut it off.
And I often find at night, I have to say to myself,
"You are not looking at your e-mail one more time
"before you go to bed."
You actually learn that if you look at it
too closely to bedtime, you end up waking up
all sorts of hours of the night.
So it's actually very counterproductive.
But you actually have to tell yourself
to shut yourself off.
And really, that's the hardest challenge for me.
The hardest challenge is saying no.
It's saying no to client requests,
it's saying no to people asking you for their time.
It's saying no to being requested to travel somewhere
to go see clients.
It's hard when you love what you do
and you're really trying to do the right thing
by the people and the firm.