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PS: You're a mom. What lesson from motherhood have you brought into your work ethic? On the flip side, what part of your work has helped you better yourself as a mother?
WZ: As a mother, a willingness to be more understanding — a softness. Maximizing strengths vs. "everyone needs to be like me." You have to help them find what that is and bring it out. Developing people and helping them stay is important to me. We had people with us in the early days and they left, and now many of them are back. Some have left to become mothers, and then they have come back.
Conversely, I've met these amazing, strong women who work for us, and those are the type of women I want my boys to be attracted to. That's [a lesson] I've learned from work that I bring back to raising my children. I try to expose them to my workplace as much as possible. They fetch coffee for people, run errands, and walk dogs. We put them to work.