Amanda Valdez Pagliari

I attribute my success to being honest, available, and service-oriented. I love my clients - whether it's the doctors that pay me or the employers that I try to get business from - the same way I love my daughter and my husband. Everyone is the same to me, and everyone needs to be treated with compassion and love equally. I treat my work and every human being I'm in contact with the same way I would treat my family, who are the most important people in my life. All I do is serve and help and resolve problems. I'm a problem solver, and I'm very much service-oriented. I'm doing problem solving not only for my clients that pay me, but I'm doing that 90% of the time for the employers that I'm trying to get to use my doctors. I'm helping both - building the practice with my clients that pay me, and then serving the ones that don't pay me by helping them resolve problems. That's what leads them to utilize our services.

I would say wherever you're at, do your work like your life depends on it. Never feel like you can't move up, because it all starts with where you're at in life. I think so many young people are like, oh, I only make this much money, I'm never gonna - I'm gonna quit. No, that is what's gonna get you ahead by just doing good where you're at and working hard. Do right for the people that you work for, even if they're not nice to you. And I feel, you know, I would tell them, if you're not happy, then get out. I was that person - I was never unhappy. I was very blessed with people I worked with from high school and up. But I worked for minimum wage for many, many years, maybe even close to 10 years, even at the beginning of marketing back in the day. I never thought that was bad. I actually did 10 jobs for very little money. I was just a doer. I would suggest just do things that even you're not supposed to do while you're working somewhere, and good things will come, whether it's there or outside of that. Just work hard, do right by the people you work for and the people you're serving, and things will evolve.

Character counts. You have to value all people for who they are, where they are in their life, and realize that we don't know what's going on in their personal lives. I value the gift of understanding that God has dwelled in me. I fight very hard to be that way, because I really focus on God dwelling in me and following His commandments. It makes it easy for me to be compassionate, even through door slams in my face - which doesn't normally happen, but I'm just giving an example. We need to realize that we don't know what's going on with other people, even the people I work with, the ones that work at the doctor's office that I've trained to provide the service and support. Even the staff, you know, they are so important. Character, treating people like they matter, even when they act like they shouldn't be treated like they matter. Personally, I love God, and I think He's the reason for everything good. And I have everything good in my life - an amazing husband, amazing family, amazing clients. Putting Jesus as the focus of everything I do, before I do it, before when I wake up. He's the reason why I do what I do. I've been blessed beyond measure with my life.