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when I look back on what the environment was that we lived in you wouldn't necessarily wish it upon your children
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but at the time it was exciting right like we were just these young kiwi kids with big goals big Ambitions big desires
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so man and I lived up in China so I was in China for 16 years living in China full-time I can safely say I would have
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been one of the only female white faces in hu so we didn't have friends we did
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not have people that you could anchor into or call or use as a mental ship it was literally match and myself our
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cousin Simon was over there as well it's hot it's sticky it's dirty it is
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fastpaced there's language barriers there's cultural nuances that you can't
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even start to understand and comprehend it's grounded in this resourcefulness
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and this desire to get ahead that you can't even appreciate or articulate unless you've lived in it and been part
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of it and the pace of innovation and change and and speed of Discovery is something that's unparalleled I was say
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we learned business the Chinese way and that was the greatest asset we could have ever received