>> It's about the people.
It's about relationships.
It is about those guests and I think about it every single day that a couple saves
up a lifetime sometimes to bring their families to the park
and I'm instrumental in helping to make their day.
You don't get that anywhere else.
So it's about the people.
I wouldn't say it's a challenge, but I think it's something you have
to think about every day.
The Walt Disney Company is the umbrella and it's huge.
Everybody knows.
It's Walt Disney World in Florida, Shanghai is opening, Disney Cruise Line.
Obviously, Disneyland is where it started in 1955 and I'm very proud
of that, but sometimes it's so big.
And the reason why I know that back in the day, if there're any sports fans, Ducks and Angels,
when we bought them, I had the opportunity to go work there.
And so we were at the freeway at the old Arrowhead Pond or Angel Stadium
and then I worked up at the studio and I commuted back and forth.
And you have to be very mindful in everything you do to collaborate.
And so, that's kind of my motto in life is you have to collaborate
because it can be a challenge when you're doing business with somebody in Florida
or you're doing business with somebody on the cruise line, you know,
in the middle of the ocean and you do.
That's part of my job.
And that can be, I guess, a challenge, but it's just something to be mindful of all the time.
Do I take my work home?
Yes. And I think that-- I never wanted to be a manager.
I was a casting director for about 15 years and I loved my job,
but it was beyond constant because the show must go on.
We all hear that every day.
Things happen.
Suddenly, you have a medical situation.
My cast needs me.
You may have-- Whatever comes up, you have to be there
for your employees and I my cast knows that.
Anybody on my team, I manage scheduling.
I manage performers.
I manage AFM union performers, ADFA performers.
And every single one of them knows I have a 24-hour role.
I will always get back to you.
I think that there's probably still that perfect job out there for me
and I think you constantly have to keep growing.
You never want to be stagnant.
I love being operational and that's my current job now,
but I love being creative, because that's in my bones.
It's innate.
I've been a performer since I was three.
So again, as the company gets bigger and bigger and expands, it gets more role specific.
So trying to find that balance of you're just operational or you're just creative,
there's still probably something out there for me that I get to do a little of both.