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MARIA GIUDICE: The craziest thing that I have done in business, and I have done a lot of crazy things in my life, is becoming a mother and running a business at the same time. It’s crazy but incredibly rewarding. And I think this is a challenge for women business owners who have to feel like they make a choice between being a mother and running a business. And I stand here before you today saying you can do both. And the benefit of running a small business is that you can define the terms to which you are going to both of those things. So with my first child, Max, he was born six years ago, I had him in the middle of the dot com boom, and I would bring him to work, and I would basically put him on bouncers and I would pass him from desk to desk while I would do presentations, speak to clients on the phone, and he became this sort of human element in the business that people really appreciated. Because he didn’t get into the way—when they’re young they’re like slugs. But they’re beautiful slugs, and people really appreciated having sort of a feeling of humanity in the office. So it’s a crazy idea but it gave me hope, and it made me realize that the benefits of running your own business is that you can bring your life in if it doesn’t get in the way of progress.