Achieving professional excellence is the most effective way to overcome barriers like racism and sexism in a business environment.

“you have to be excellent in everything you do because excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism because i learned that okay forget it i don't care what anyone thinks i have to be the best at whatever it is i'm doing because it's being a dentist if it's being a mentor so that drove me to ”

Professional identity and merit must remain independent of a spouse's celebrity or status to achieve true success.

“I've always said you have to be so secure and so confident in who you are and have your own purpose that if someone leaves they don't take you with them and that is big because so often i never i i think my husband has great accolades i'm proud of him you know pro bowl he's been to a super bowl he p”