Stephanie DeAnna

I think it's very important to recognize your strengths and weaknesses, and sometimes your weaknesses, somebody else can help you there. You don't push yourself too hard to be good at your weaknesses, because you should really let yourself shine in your strengths. I've worked with so many different people, and I have certain strengths, and I've recognized, okay, I'm great at presenting and forming relationships. Even though an opportunity might come your way, if it's something that doesn't make you happy and it drains you, I think it's really important to recognize that, because that's not the path that you should take. As a woman, you just have this intuition, and it's always right. It doesn't mean you have to drop everything and start fresh, it may just be a slight change. And one thing I will say, this is the best thing, and this is what I'm worst at: I'm a lot better about building people up instead of building myself up. I have people around me all the time, and so I'm really trying to change that. I have this attitude, oh, people should just know my work, they should know what I do. But you have to be an advocate for yourself, because nobody knows unless you tell them. It's important to remember that in corporate life, everyone is trying for the same thing, but I just go by the motto, like, if you win, I win, but not everyone feels that way.

Loyalty is so important. Loyalty and trust, I think, are very, very important to me in my personal life and my work career. It's just, that's who I am. That's how I was raised. My work family becomes my family at home. And then I think it's something that people are surprised about me, because I'm outgoing and sometimes I interrupt and I can't help it, I get excited, but being very patient is something that I really strive to be, because sometimes listening is the most powerful thing that you can do, especially when you have a patient or an elderly person on the other end of the phone. It's so, so important.