668 Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Talk to any great entrepreneur and they’ll tell you they built the plane as they were flying it. They jumped into massive action towards a big goal without knowing every detail and learned along the way. Entrepreneurship by its very definition is a leap into the unknown – and what keeps so many women from that magic million-dollar mark and beyond is what I call ‘credentialitus’ – spending so much time getting qualified and perfecting plans, that the opportunity to grow and scale a business passes them by. My guest today – Galit Ventura-Rozen – is all about helping women entrepreneurs get out of their own way and overcome the perfectionism that stands in the way of entrepreneurial success.

MELINDA

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Today we meet an inspiring entrepreneur who grew her company into a billion-dollar business – an extraordinary accomplishment when only 3% of female founders reach the million-dollar mark.

Galit Ventura-Rozen began her entrepreneurial journey 25 years ago as a broker and owner of Commercial Professionals, which she built into a $1 billion dollar business. Now as a sales success expert, author, and award-winning entrepreneur, Galit has made it her mission to show women how to reach 7+ figures in their businesses by mastering sales – and yes, overcoming that perfectionism thing.

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Galit Ventura-Rozen has made it her mission to master the psychology of sales. Along the way as she grew a billion dollar company, Galit learned a lot about what holds women back from business success – and works now to empower, inspire, and motivate others to believe in themselves by incorporating lessons from her book, The Successful Woman’s Mindset.

Galit also founded Empowering University, where she offers corporate training, workshops, retreats, and professional speaking mentoring. Most recently Galit co-founded Everyday Woman, a community where women receive support and are uplifted to do and be what they desire in their life and career. She works with women in business to increase performance, profits, and productivity; showing them how to get more clients through visibility. Galit has been featured in P.O.W.E.R. Magazine, Wealthy Woman Magazine, and landed the cover of Exeleon.  Real Estate Magazine featured her as one of the international Top 100 People as “The Woman Behind the $1 Billion Commercial Real Estate Company.” As a sought-after internationally recognized public speaker, Galit has appeared on ABC, NBC, and Fox as an expert on mindset, leadership, and business. Galit is also the recipient of the Hero of Change Award from Amaré Magazine, Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Silver State Awards, the Women of Distinction Award from National Association of Women Business Owners –and the TMG Silver State Award for Best of the Best Local Motivational Speaker.

Today we talk about the million-dollar mindset and Galit’s signature 4-step plan to create wealth and happiness, the psychology of sales, and how to overcome the limiting beliefs that keep women entrepreneurs playing small.

So, let’s get to the bottom of what it takes to succeed at sales, plus Galit will be on hand to answer your questions and give advice on the Podopolo interactive app. Download it now, follow Wings, join the conversation as you listen to this inspiring conversation with Galit Ventura Rozen.

Melinda Wittstock:

Galit, welcome to Wings.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Hi. Thank you, Melinda.

Melinda Wittstock:

I’m so excited to have you on, because not only did you grow that billion dollar business, but you’re helping women get there. And I guess, like a lot of people, had a spark during COVID to really look within and figure out how to, I don’t know, give back, or maybe it’s actually give forward, because you’re lifting up women with yet another business, Everyday Woman. Tell me about that. What made you take that leap into another business during COVID?

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Honestly, I had a little extra time when the country shut down in March 2020, and as serial entrepreneurs, we don’t know how to just be. We’ve got to figure something out. But in all honesty, the reason that it showed up was because I was watching my community, my tribe, women that I’ve been connected to on social media for five years or more, scrambling to figure out how to support their families. And that’s when I realized I needed to take the success that I’ve been blessed with over 25 years and show other women how to be successful, as well.

Melinda Wittstock:

I think COVID taught a lot of lessons. I mean, one of them was to look within and figure out, what do you like about your life? What do you actually want? Where’s the alignment? And then meantime, because the economy was disrupted in the way it is, and most people, virtual work, it sort of gave people maybe a sense of, wait a minute, I can take control of my own life. I don’t have to fit into all the boxes that have been prescribed for me, and I can go out on my own as an entrepreneur.

I think a lot of women did turn side hustles into business or pivot their businesses or launch businesses or whatever during COVID. What are the main challenges that you find that women who are newbie entrepreneurs during COVID are finding?

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

I think first and foremost, it starts with they just don’t know how. It’s that simple. The how tends to be what stops them the most. So they’re really looking for those other women that can show them the logical steps, but also motivate them to recognize that they can. So I would say the first thing is they don’t know how. And I always say there are millions and millions of people out there that know how to do the things you don’t. Just find them.

The second thing is very common for women. We’re not good at believing in ourselves. We’re not good at recognizing how amazing we are. I don’t think we’re told enough by the people around us. So that was another thing. And really what we strived to do, Melinda, was build a community. We have a community of over 14,000 women now, in the last year and a half, that we built on Facebook, and it’s built this community where women can support women. I mean, it’s actually called Women Supporting Women Professionals and Entrepreneurs. But I found over and over again, no matter what, it’s I just don’t know how to do this.

Melinda Wittstock:

Right. But now when I look around the entrepreneurial world, there’s so many resources, so many courses, so many people who’ve done it before, that it’s actually a wonderful time to go out and be an entrepreneur because those resources are just at your fingertips.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Agreed. I think that we don’t always realize how much is at our fingertips, and you don’t have to go to the logical getting a degree or something like that. There’s so many courses. There’s so many mentors. There’s so much education literally at your fingertips, and more than ever today, it is so normal and normalized to be able to learn from your computer. And when we started our first businesses, you and I, we didn’t have that opportunity.

Melinda Wittstock:

There was no internet.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

We had to go out and search. Right, I know. My God, let’s not age ourselves. But there was no internet. It’s so interesting to me because I don’t always think it’s the resources are not available. I think that one of the other things that really stops women is the fear of not understanding that part of the path to success is failing. And so many women are so scared of failing that we live in a world where it is common to go to school, it’s common to get degrees, and it’s common to get a job right out of school, if it’s high school or college. But we’re not taught in the real big picture about entrepreneurship, what it takes to be successful. And I think that’s what a lot of women are looking for today.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah. You can’t be afraid of failure. Failure is actually your feedback. It’s the vital part, because if you’re an entrepreneur, by definition, you’re creating something new. You’ve found a problem that needs to be solved. Nobody else is solving it, or you have a unique way of solving it. You can provide value, can help people, but when you’re at those early stages and you’re iterating to figure out who your customers are, what their problems actually are, how you can serve them best, it’s an iterative process, and part of that innovation, part of the program, is failure.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Yes, yes. It’s the path to success. And I always share examples all over history where how many times did some of the most successful people, some of the people that have invented the things that we have today, like electricity and so on, how many times did they have to fail to succeed? And failure really shows you what works. So if you change your mindset, and I’m a big mindset girl, if you change your mindset to recognize that you shouldn’t fear it, instead you should be open to it and accept it, it makes it so much easier to find the path that works for you. Because if it doesn’t work, you just try something else until you figure out what does.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah, I think you also seized on something which comes up a lot on this podcast, is the perfectionism that women experience, which manifests in either trying to do it all themselves, rather than reaching out and asking for support. It manifests in not hiring early enough, this whole do it all, it has to be perfect. But it’s also this fear of, I guess at the root of it is probably a mindset that I have to prove my competence, even to myself, because I don’t have deep down say the confidence to go do it. To what extent do we value ourselves? So I see a lot of women really held back in business because they’re trying to perfect everything before they do something. It’s kind of the equivalent of instead of selling something, planning how you’re going to sell something. Procrastination.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Do you know what I see often, Melinda?

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah, go ahead.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

I see often that people that decide, women specifically that decide they want to become entrepreneurs, take 7,000 different courses, because that is avoidance of actually going out there and doing the work. And they keep educating themselves and educating themselves and constantly educating, which I’m a big believer in education, I have two degrees and a lot of certifications, but I also put myself to work while I was learning.

But that becomes almost like a front. I’ve got to learn more. I don’t know enough. I’m not perfect enough. I’m not prepared enough. And that is so perfect, what you said. It’s so true. And I see it over and over and over again with women. Instead of, okay, wait, I learned this much, while I’m still learning, let me go ahead and do what I already learned.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah. There’s no faster course to learning than being an entrepreneur.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Exactly.

Melinda Wittstock:

Because it forces you to learn. You cannot succeed unless you’re endlessly curious, curious about your customer, curious about your market, curious about different solutions, curious about technological advances. I mean, curious all the time.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Yes. Yes. So true. And you know, if you really believe in the businesses that you have or what you’re doing, you’re constantly learning anyways, because you’re always wanting to grow. So education never goes away. And like you said, it’s right there at our fingertips. Just figure out what it is you want to learn.

I went back and I got my master’s degree when I was 38, and I really believed I was supposed to be a therapist. So I went and I got a marriage and family therapy degree, wanting to practice therapy part-time and then of course still have my businesses. And the reason I share that is usually when you get your master’s degree, it takes two years. It took me five, because of everything going on in my life and having three children, whatever. And the reason I share that is because it’s never late to learn. And if you are someone like me, you want to learn for the rest of your life. Because even if I study every single day something new, I’m still not going to know everything, and there’s so much amazing information out there to learn from.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah, and there’s learning and applying it. It’s one thing to learn it in your head and know it. It’s another thing to go out and do it. Sort of the interesting thing about, say, muscle memory, like if you go work out in a gym or you start yoga or whatever, you’re not necessarily good at it to begin with, but after a while, your muscles know what to do. So it’s a constant learning in the application. I think that’s a faster path, actually.

You’re talking to somebody who, you know, I became an award-winning journalist. Did I ever go to journalism school? No. I’ve been a very successful entrepreneur. Did I ever go to business school? No. So I’m a little bit low on the credentials, but high on the results. And I don’t know, maybe it was just in my DNA.

Failure is part of the program. Did it hurt, and do you get frustrated, when you fail? Of course, but now it’s just sort of an anticipation. It’s something like, even in my current business, because it’s a technology business at its heart, it’s constant iteration. It’s like, let’s try that. Oh, that didn’t work. Let’s try that. Okay, let’s this, that, whatever, and then getting the feedback from your customers about what they really want. And it’s just a constant process.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Yes. And you could compare your experience to someone that just goes to school and gets a bachelors, a masters, and a doctorate, but has absolutely no life experience. And that is great, but there’s got to be a balance. There’s got to be something. And you’re like me. We started out so young, and we didn’t have the resources. We didn’t have those women role models to show us the way. So we really learned through trial and error, and that is sometimes the best way to learn because you’re out there in the trenches, hustling with feet on the ground, making those phone calls, showing up to those events.

But today it’s so much easier, because you have so many opportunities waiting at your fingertips. And a part of me believes there is no excuse, but what happens to a lot of women is that fear stops them, that fear, again, of not knowing how or the fear of failure or not feeling like they know enough, they’re not educated enough, they’re not perfect enough. And I just, I have that thing that I love to say is just go out and do one thing, one thing today, one thing that gets you closer to where you want to get. I don’t care if it’s an email, a phone call, going to a network event, saying out loud, this is what I’m going to do, but it’s just that action that’s so important.

And that’s the piece that so many people are missing, is taking that action. You and I have gotten where we are today because we took action, even if it scared us, even if we didn’t know exactly what we were doing, even if we didn’t know it was perfect, and that’s kind of my goal for every woman, is stop waiting for the perfect time. Just take some kind of action today.

Melinda Wittstock:

I love what you said, because action has a providence about it. When you take those steps, it opens up other opportunities, and other opportunities where you start to see a clear path ahead of you, which nobody can know at the outset. You know your North Star, you know where you’re going, and so you know your why, you know what you ultimately want, but the path there is a winding road, right? So to presuppose exactly how it’s going to happen, nobody knows. So the only way you can really start to unlock that, at least in my experience, is just taking that first step.

And so you’re so right about action. Do you think things like The Law of Attraction has, I don’t know, put people off? You know, when The Secret came out, I think there’s a lot of people who thought, oh, I can just manifest this. I can think about it. I can meditate on it. I can do my vision board, which all of these things are important, to be able to visualize your success, but without the action.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

So you know how your single girlfriend will say to you, I just can’t meet the right guy? And I’m like, okay, well, what are you doing to meet the right guy? Because if you’re expecting the guy to just ring your doorbell and show up one day, more than likely it’s not going to happen. So I always use that as an example, because what you said is so perfect. I believe it’s a combination of visualizing, I’m so visual by nature, knowing that it will be, but you’ve got to also feel the emotions associated with knowing it. And then you’ve got to do the things that are going to get you there.

So I do believe that what you’re saying sometimes can be a problem, where people can go, oh, I’ll just manifest it and think it all day and it’ll just show up. No. What you said was perfect. Take that first action step. You’ve shown the universe, okay, I really want this. I might not know how to get it, I might not know what I have to do next, but I’m open to it. So now show me what I need to do next, because I’m going to do it. So I think it’s okay to have that kind of way of thinking. I’ve used that my entire life. But I also know that there has to be balance between visualizing it, knowing it, feeling the emotions of it happening, and doing the things that will get you there.

Melinda Wittstock:

So let’s go back in time. So you’re 21 and you create your real estate business, which of course you grew into a billion dollar business. And I just want that to sink in with everybody, a billion dollar business. That’s a massive accomplishment, Galit, when only three percent of women get to the million dollar mark. And so what were you thinking? What was in your head in terms of what you were visualizing at age 21? And was it what you expected?

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Well, it’s never what you expect. You already know that, Melinda.

Melinda Wittstock:

I know, I know.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Oh my gosh.

Melinda Wittstock:

How did it differ? Take me back to what you were thinking when you were 21.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Absolutely. Well, I worked in jobs since I was 15 and a half years old, so I had always worked. And I was just getting ready to graduate college while all of my friends were looking for jobs, and I had a business degree in management, and some of my girlfriends were doing different things, and something just didn’t sit right with me. And I really allowed that feeling. And I probably wasn’t even close to as spiritual as I am today or intuitive then, but something still like, Galit, this is not the right path for you.

And I said, well, what do I want to do? And I said, let me get my real estate license. I started hitting the ground. And my first experience in real estate was homes, and I did not like it. And so I started interning for commercial real estate agents, which were women, which we were far and few then, very small percentage of women, and still today. And something just told me, go learn. Here we go again, Melinda. Go learn what it is, learn how to, and then let’s figure it out.

And what happens is once you get your license, if you have a degree that’s in relation to it, like business, within two years, you can open your own company. And that’s what pretty much I did. And I think taking you through it, I have to share with you over and over again, there was a lot of failure. There was a lot of me trying to figure out what I was doing. There was a lot of me asking people that were already in positions that I wanted to be in one day, so I could learn from them, and recognizing I couldn’t do it all myself. I didn’t know it all. I needed to ask for help. And those are some of the things that women really struggle with, and we need to get over it, because there are people out there that want to see you succeed. And if you’re hanging out and talking to the people that don’t, you’re hanging out and talking to the wrong people.

Melinda Wittstock:

It’s the people you surround yourself with. So you may be around people that are well-meaning, but they’re coming from their own perspective and you going out on your own, they might be worried about you because they’re seeing it through their own fear-based mindset. And the other thing, too, so, so important, hang around with people who are doing the thing that you think you want to do. They are generous. You just pick the best person at whatever it is, reach out to them, and chances are, they will help you.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Yes. Yes. And if they’re not the person, there’s another 10, there’s another 40. Sometimes we give up when that first person says, oh yeah, I don’t have any time, or nope, that’s not for me. There’s enough people out there that will, so don’t give up. And also, don’t allow that one person out of 50 that doesn’t believe in you and thinks you’re crazy, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been called crazy, when it’s in relation to business.

Melinda Wittstock:

Me, too. [crosstalk 00:19:27] the crazy t-shirt. Yeah, absolutely.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Yes, right? Yes, I’m crazy. Get over it. So I think we need to recognize, because we have this ability to focus on the one person that doesn’t believe in us versus the 49 that do. And that’s just our natural ability to want to be liked by everyone. We’ve got to let that go.

So what happened to me when I was that young was I just knew without a doubt I wanted to succeed. I got a loan when I first started my business for $50,000. I didn’t even own my own house when I went into real estate. And I just figured out I was, and I also made sure I always showed up with knowledge. I always showed up prepared. Like you said, I walked into boardrooms with 10 men. I still do. And I just had to show up with confidence. And if I didn’t have the confidence, I’m going to tell you, Melinda, I faked it.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yes.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

I faked it.

Melinda Wittstock:

Oh gosh. Yes. I mean, there have been those moments, just truth being told, when you’re going into something, especially something completely new, and you’re around a whole bunch of people who look like they know what they’re doing, or they do know what they’re doing, or they’ve just been doing it longer than you, it’s easy to have your confidence affected by that. But you cannot show it.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

No, you really can’t. And especially if you’re working in male-dominated industries, which you and I have both experienced. We won’t go there, but it’s best to just put on that smile, know your information, show up with the knowledge, show up with the homework. By the way, it’s okay to say, well, I’m going to go back and confirm that information. I don’t want to give you the information that’s not updated. I never said, I don’t know. I just always came up with something that was, I’m going to go back and make sure, or I’m going to look up that information to give you the most updated information.

But I never showed up not confident, even if I felt it inside, because that unfortunately never benefited you in those situations when you’re selling hundreds of millions of dollars of property. And I think for anybody that’s listening, I really want you, if you’re just starting out or if you’ve been doing this for 25 years, to just check yourself and recognize that it is possible to get wherever you want to go. Just make a plan, know that you’re going to get there, surround yourself with the people that know how to get you there. Be open to learning, and recognize it’s possible, because that’s why the numbers are so low, Melinda. Those women are not getting to that million dollar, to that seven figure business, because a lot of times, these are the things that they’re not incorporating in their lives.

Melinda Wittstock:

Really true. So I’m curious about this. Did you at age 21 think, yeah, I’m going to go out and build a billion dollar business? When did the realization come to you, if not then, that yeah, that’s where you were going?

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

I honestly am going to say it was probably baby steps. I don’t think at that young of an age I knew where I was going to be 25 years later. I think it’s a progression of steps that you take, and then you get more confident and more confident. You close your first deal, right? And in commercial real estate, the deals are a little bit bigger. And then you close your first deal and you made five grand. You’re like, oh my God, I just made five. Then you make 10. In one of my largest deals, I’ve made $250,000 in commission.

So I don’t think that happens overnight in your head. I think that we within ourselves have to baby step it there. I think that in some shape or form, I always knew I wanted to be successful. I knew I wanted to have the ability to financially take care of my family, financially have the freedom, but also have the freedom to be a mom and be there for my kids. So I think somewhere in my head, I always had that motto, my business, my way, but it took time to get there.

Melinda Wittstock:

You did this with three kids. I’ve done it with two. Both my kids are just inherently entrepreneurial now, even though they deny it, because they’ve watched me go through these ups and downs and learnings, but they’ve also seen something happen in any hour of the day. There’s like, I don’t know, there’s some sort of crisis or some sort of new challenge, and they see me deal with it. So they know that you can.

And I think it’s just sort of a different way for kids to grow up, but also the beauty of entrepreneurship, and we can talk about this work-life balance thing, is that you really can create your business around the lifestyle you want. But it presupposes that you know what you want. So that’s part of it, too, is actually knowing what it is that you actually want.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Well, I think for me, Melinda, the one thing that I knew, I started my first business probably about a year before I had my first child. So I will tell you that some shape or form, I knew once I was a mom that I didn’t want to miss out on being a mom. So if you asked me what I knew with confidence, I became a mom at 24, what I knew with confidence is I knew I wanted to not miss out on everything. And of course you have to give up some things. Like, they went to daycare, then they went to preschool. Come on, of course.

But I knew I didn’t want to miss the performances and the basketball games and the swimming and the musicals. And I knew that when they were in school, I could work, and then when I came home. So that I knew more than anything. The rest of it, I think I built around that. So if you only know one thing, so for example, let’s just say you know that you want to have a lifestyle where you get to travel from place to place and still work, well, that’s something you know, so make sure that while you’re building your business, you build those boundaries and you build things around that. I love having the freedom that I can go away for a week and still make money and still run my businesses. That was the second thing that was important to me after my children got a little bit older.

Melinda Wittstock:

Oh my goodness, monthly recurring or passive income. These are the things that, so you don’t have to be doing it all. I think when a lot of women, I know I’ve mentored so many, too, over the years, and when I say things like, okay, so what would it look like to play bigger? And there’s this flash of fear because the assumption that’s made in playing bigger is that you have to do more to get bigger, and you actually do not. So it’s the magical word, leverage, delegation, building a team, models that have passive income in them where your business can be scaling really rapidly without you having to be in it all the time.

So I think there’s a big lesson there for women that I think men more naturally grasp. They’re much more likely, like I just started noticing this difference between my son and my daughter, my son is much more likely to ask someone to do something for him and my daughter will just immediately assume that she has to be the one doing it. It’s fascinating.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Yes. And there’s some things within us that are almost ingrained in the DNA or in the gender. I see a lot of similarities. Obviously, there’s always exceptions, but I do see a lot of similarities when it comes to women. I’m like you. I’ve had an experience with so many, just even conversations. And then there’s that inherent like-minded thing that we deal with. So I think we’ll talk about that, but more than anything, it’s just recognizing that women can do it too. It’s so simple. Women can do it too. There is no difference except for our mind works against us sometimes.

And we need to get into that mind. We need to have a talk with it. We need to talk to it in a way that we can give it confidence and say, you got this, you can do this. And that is one of the key factors to my successes. I’m human. I have good days. I have bad days. I have unmotivated days. I have motivated days. But I’ve learned throughout the years with practice, how to get myself back to where I need to be quicker.

Melinda Wittstock:

So obviously, with your real estate business, Galit, you had to learn how to sell right out of the gate. I see a lot of women, men, too, struggle with the whole concept of sales. Because somewhere in our mindset, we think that sales is icky, or we’ve seen too many movies with a salesperson, or we bought too many cars, right? So we have this image of sales, and there are so many people who just don’t really want to sell, or they’re really good at promoting something, but then don’t ask for the sale. What did you learn about yourself with respect to sales and the practical aspect there? Because I see a lot of women struggling in that area.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Oh yes. It’s something I speak about often in my professional speaking. I actually created something called the Sales Success Method. And what I share more than anything is, you’ve got to stop thinking about it as sales. I think there’s a stigma, like the 80s car salesman that you mentioned. And I think we need to stop that. Instead, I want people to start thinking about it as building relationships. The sale will happen on its own. When you’re doing things right, and you listen, and you understand what somebody’s looking for, everything else falls into place.

You’ve got to stop focusing on selling and start focusing on building relationships, that like, trust, and know factor. I didn’t make that up. Right, Melinda? Once they get to the like, know, and trust factor, they’re going to give you their credit card. I’ve seen it over and over again. And when I go through my Sales Success Method, it really starts with having the mindset of a successful salesperson or being in sales. You’ve got to have a mindset, which is what I already covered, confidence, and knowledge.

You’ve got to listen more than talk. Listen, please listen. Stop assuming what people are looking for. Then you’ve got to build the relationship before you sell. I don’t even have the sales conversation with people until I go through all of that.

Melinda Wittstock:

So Galit, we are running out of time in this amazing interview. I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface. I definitely want to invite you back for a part two, and we’ll do that sometime soon. But in the meantime, I want to make sure people know how to find you and work with you. You have this amazing community. You’re the creator of Million Dollar Mindset. Women, gosh, need to know how to get to that seven figures annually. You’re doing so much good in the world. What’s the best way for people to find you and work with you?

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Oh, well, thank you. I appreciate you wanting me back. So I’m on all social media through my full name, Galit Ventura-Rozen. They can also go to thesalessuccessmethod.com. It’s a really easy thing to remember, and that’ll give them an opportunity to connect with me, as well.

Melinda Wittstock:

Wonderful. Well, thank you so much for putting on your wings and flying with us today.

Galit Ventura-Rozen:

Thank you, Melinda.