Episode 328: In the Dynamics Corner Chair: Unveiling the DUG Community Superheroes and Their Inspiring Stories

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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.

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Thanks for everybody for joining.

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We appreciate your time for speaking with us today.

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This episode, chris, is an extra special episode, indeed, and why is it an extra special episode?

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Can't fit everybody in a single.

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That's one reason why it's an extra special episode.

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Can't fit everybody in a single.

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That's one reason why it's an extra special episode.

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Uh, but in this episode what we have is we have gathered together, uh, all of, or most of, or many of, not all of, but many of the dynamics.

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Users users group superheroes.

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Cecile what is a superhero?

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Excellent question.

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You know what?

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We started this in 2021.

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So 2021 to 2024, we have 17 total Duggs superhero winners.

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So I would like to really acknowledge everyone.

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That's why we have this podcast and congratulations.

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And I really wanted to say we are getting together.

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We are most of the time once a month, or maybe every other month, just to keep these uh, superheroes together, and it's simply because you know they are these superheroes they have, they're talented, they have a lot of things to contribute to the community.

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That's why I really want them to be together.

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That's why we have this, uh, dark superheroes podcast.

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We have this Dark Superheroes podcast.

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We have this.

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We keep everybody together and in touch.

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Okay, so, as I mentioned, we have these superhero awards and I got mine last year, right here.

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So I got mine.

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That is, product Expert Superhero.

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I just wanted to give you what are those superhero awards.

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So let me begin with our 2024 superhero winners.

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First, we have Discovery Superhero.

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Let me move this over here.

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Who is that?

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It's me, it's me, it's me.

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That's right.

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Before we talk about the Discovery superhero what goes into becoming a superhero?

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What makes somebody a superhero?

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Okay, first for Discovery superhero.

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This individual made or found a solution within one of the Dynamics 365, dynamics GP or power products that has helped many fellow community members.

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Wow, that's amazing.

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That's excellent, excellent.

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So who is the Discovery superhero?

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I am the Discovery superhero for this year.

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You're the Discovery superhero.

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I am the Discovery superhero for this year.

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You're the Discovery superhero.

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I'm honored to get nominated and really excited to win it, and I won it for a website that my husband and I did.

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It's called ConnectorReviewcom.

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It's a free community website that we created back when we had some extra time in 2020, 2021.

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We saw a need for us personally and in the larger community to understand which Power Automate connectors were available for different use cases.

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Microsoft documentation is really great if you know which vendor you want.

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Microsoft documentation is really great if you know which vendor you want.

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Not so great if you know hey, I want an email vendor that has a Power Automate connector, but I don't know which vendor I want, so this website tags them by use case.

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It also has some subjective ratings, so if one to five stars help you decide what to use, Excellent.

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Well, congratulations on the Discovery Superhero Award.

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And if you would just tell us a little bit about yourself as well and I will definitely have to, with a CRM background.

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So I work in the CRM space primarily and obviously really heavy in Power Platform on Power Automate.

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Excellent.

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Thank you and again congratulations.

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Thank you, all right.

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Okay, so our next Product Expert Award goes to Dan Dan Edwards, who is the Product Expert Award.

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Yes, there we go.

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So product expert award continues to share their expertise within Dynamics user group community.

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Yes, thank you so much.

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I was so excited to win this award.

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Been working in the community for no-transcript.

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Thank you and congratulations on your award.

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Do they get a cape or anything, Cecile, for these superhero awards?

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I'll ask we have to make our own.

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I do have a power app that allows you to measure the perfect superhero cape for you.

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Anyone that came to my session last year at Dynamics Con Live would have gotten the opportunity to see that mixed reality power app for this very special occasion I actually have a vintage dynamics con cape.

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Do you remember the first dynamic on virtual?

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they think I do, I do, I had it for a long time and then I danced my little heart out in san antonio and I danced, I danced the night away and the next morning the cape was gone and I literally called the bar to be like I'm so sorry.

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Did you happen to find a superhero cape?

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Because I left mine there last night?

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But you know, somebody took it home because they said they didn't have it and you know, someone snagged that.

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You know it.

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That's hilarious.

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I would want one of those capes.

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I think you should expand your app for next year so that it can do the whole costume that's a bit much but, however, maybe we could add an ordering site, right?

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maybe we?

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could go into production okay, so we'll do ordering before the superhero outfit, or will we do it all together?

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You know, the cape is its own outfit in itself.

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It really allows people to kind of like, you know, the cape is its own outfit in itself.

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It really allows people to kind of, like, you know, mosey on into the superhero experience as they wish, because it takes a lot to go from just like a cape, like a simple cape you know, to like, maybe like a tiara and tutu and like the whole ensemble, you know.

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So you let people kind of like ease into just a simple cape first and then, and then maybe you know, if they're really a cape enthusiast, they can get a full outfit I okay, so after you put that together, share the site and then we can order our capes.

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And also, a little bird told me they have a video of that dancing and I would love for them to send it and share it so that we could put it as part of this podcast.

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So when Chris does the editing, when you're talking about the dancing, it will be on the screen.

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So, if that little birdie would like to share it with me, just send it over to me.

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The little bird's name is Kristen.

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I know there's no fooling around around here.

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I already know who that birdie is.

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Okay.

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So, kristen, uh, you just got permission to send that video to us to share uh on the podcast.

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Okay, cecile, what's the next award?

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okay, so the next award category is called newbie superhero.

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This member is a new 2D365, dynamics, gp and or bar platform and has fully embraced and utilized community to help elevate their career and grow.

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Who is our new?

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award.

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Madeline, can you hear me okay?

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I can hear you okay, madeline, you're the newbie award, congratulations.

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I'm officially a noob, as my husband pointed out, he's a big game, so he said you're a noob now.

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Yeah, it was a complete shock and surprise.

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I'm very grateful for everyone that voted for me and nominated me.

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I believe it is due to my active LinkedIn profile.

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So I've been posting a lot for the company I work for and just like content, helpful guides, things like that, I think giving value is a really helpful way of um, of uh, marketing and so, as a vp of marketing, um, that's kind of the angle that I like to take.

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So that's great congratulations.

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And also with sharing information.

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I found I don't know, maybe it's because I'm old now that just giving back and contributing it feels good too.

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I appreciate joy, sharing and contributing information and and help us helping others along the way with their journey.

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So congratulations and thank you for doing that, and I'm sure many appreciate and enjoy the content that you share.

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And congratulations again on your newbie award.

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There's a lot of awards, noob, noob, we'll call you the noob.

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The noob.

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The noob on the block.

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Okay, Cecile, what do we have next?

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Our next category is Brand Builder Superhero.

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This community member not only showcases their product skills, but also does a great job building their personal brand as a community advocate and beyond, and our Brand Builder Award is Hello everybody.

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Yes, I think what is sort of like maybe you were asking before what makes this award a little bit unique from the other and then after the nominations come through, people have to vote for you.

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So it's not just like an award that's sort of given by the committee, but it's basically the awards are given based on everybody's votes.

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So that was an honor and shock for me, because there were some awesome great nominees for every category and we didn't know until that day.

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So it was really fun to just sort of receive the email and just literally show up to get our awards.

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So it was fun.

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I think I was nominated and hopefully picked for the award is because I've been very active in the last year in the Dallas DFW local group.

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So we've just established a new group and we are doing a lot of in-person events attracting tens and sometimes even up to 100 people into our events.

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So it's been a lot of fun just meeting everybody in the community in DFW area and also just working with others in the community, just put these events together and providing a free service to the D365 community, not only just teaching them stuff, but also a venue for them to meet with each other.

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So it's been lots of fun, and it was my first Dynamics Con, so it was all icing on the cake.

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Excellent Congratulations.

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So you had mentioned.

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So this award is community nominated and community voted, so that is one important fact for these awards.

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So it is an award that the members of the community have the opportunity to nominate as well as vote for the recipients.

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That's great.

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And also, would you tell us a little bit about yourself?

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I know we heard about the reward, but tell us a little bit more about what you do.

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Sure, madeline, we'll have to go back to you too.

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We didn't get a chance to hear a little bit more about what you do.

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Sure, madeline, we'll have to go back to you too.

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We didn't get a chance to hear a little bit more about you, other than that you're a VP of marketing and you're a noob.

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But we'll hear more about what you do after.

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Yes, I'm from the D365 or AX background.

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I worked in the D365 space for almost 15 years in the partner space doing implementations.

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For the last eight years, I'm focused primarily on training.

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I have an online training company and I'm also an MVP for the D365 F&O product where I think it's business applications category, so I'm pretty much living and breathing training.

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So if we're not offering training, we're teaching people how to use D365 products.

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I work a lot with Microsoft.

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It's been just a wonderful transition for me to move from sort of like that consulting work into more training and advocating for training in D365 implementations, because a lot of the time it's overlooked.

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So, yeah, that's my background.

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I live in Dallas, but right now I am in Turkey.

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I just came here for vacation, so I'm originally from Turkey and from Monday on two weeks I will not be found.

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That's her key.

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I have never been to Turkey.

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You should visit.

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It's wonderful.

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I really need to get to Europe to visit.

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I will say to everybody over and over again how I need to start traveling outside of my comfort zone and I think I just need to drop myself off in Europe and just roam around for a little while.

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Yes, the nice thing is you're a U're a US citizen and you don't need to get a visa from any of those countries.

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You can just buy a ticket and show up.

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Ah, I think.

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I can do that Even better.

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That would be great, I could just drop myself off and go backpacking through.

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I mean, the countries over in Europe are like states here, so I do it here, might as well do it there.

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Madeline, I apologize, you threw me with the noob conversation and marketing, so can you tell us a little bit about yourself as well, too?

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Sure, yeah, to start.

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I've lived in Turkey, alif, and I have spoken about this.

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My husband works in the department, so we lived in Ankara for a couple of years and definitely worth a trip to go there.

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I currently live in the Chicagoland area, which definitely enjoy because it's close to home.

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I grew up in Madison, wisconsin, by way of Puerto Rico, colombia, so that's a little bit about my background.

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I have two kids and in terms of my work, I started at Cap2Code, which is where I work, as a software developer over three years ago almost four years ago and being a small tech company, you end up wearing a lot of hats and I've had previous experience with website design, marketing, all of that.

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So kind of naturally took that on and slowly kind of worked my way through up through the company and now I am technically the VP of technology and marketing.

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But next week we're going to have a new VP of technology, which we're very excited to announce, somebody in this community that is joining us and so I'll be able to focus entirely on the marketing side.

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Really excited for.

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Excellent, thank you, and that is.

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It's such a small world.

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Yeah, oftentimes I meet individuals or other members of the community and there's always some sort of connection.

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And what are the chances that you have in a community such as this?

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Two individuals that lived in turkey you know, so it's uh, it's good to know, okay, cecile, who's next?

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You're muted.

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By the way, you can't have a conversation in 2024 without somebody saying you're muted.

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Okay, all right.

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So our next category she's not here, but we will recognize her she's Ann Kervke.

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Diversity and Inclusion Superhero.

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This community member continues to prioritize diversity and inclusion while educating fellow members along the way.

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And another winner that's not here is Sean Dorward, guardian Superhero Award.

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This individual has gone above and beyond in the dog community to serve others, share resources, learn and be a true community champion.

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And then I want to mention first our winners that are not here.

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We have Alex Meyer, bobby Small, savannah Deal, trish Guthy and Tom Dornan, so congratulations as well.

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And then, of course, we have our meetup leader award, the superhero Mary Myers.

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You're on mute.

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You're muted too, mary.

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See, we had to say that.

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I was all excited to hear.

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That's why I held my finger, because I knew I was muted.

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I couldn't find my screen, so that was the issue there.

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Got it Well.

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Congratulations on being the Meetup Award winner.

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Thank you.

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Cecile, what is the Meetup Award winner?

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What are the requirements for a meetup award winner?

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that's a good question.

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It's not in my notes but I'm sure um, maybe kristen can help me on this.

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Um, I think this is new in 2024.

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It was not in the previous years, like steve, yeah, yeah, it's not here previous years.

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She just travels everywhere.

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She showed up in Seattle one time.

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We have to give this girl some type of pat on the back for all of the airplane miles that she is racking up.

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No, no, no, I don't know what the qualifications are.

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Super excited and honored to be the first one to win it, um, especially because I kind of shared this one on my post.

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So fun, fun facts, right.

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So one I've been running our tampa user group here, um, so I live in well just south of tampa, florida, and um, so I've been running, or co running, the user group here with Beth Burrell for two years now, and I think one thing that's different about our user group than all of the other user groups is we meet every month, meet every month for the last two years, except for we take two, two months off in the summer as as a little break.

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So that's part of my community efforts.

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And then, plus, I think, I'm allergic to my house, and so it's like if I'm here for more than three weeks at a time, I break out in hives, and so then I'm like cool.

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I know that the award was given for the person who has really stepped up and helped out our meetup sessions throughout, you know, across the board meetup and Mary having probably the most popular meetup in Tampa, which is well, I mean, tons of people go to it, that I know, and also it is the most popular and regularly scheduled, like she said.

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But it's also somebody who's really stepped up and helped out the meetup day, the one-day meetup days, or who stepped up in other meetups to be a speaker and kind of promote the meetup, getting together the meetup concept.

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So that's what I remember from the award, the description from it.

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Excellent.

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Plus, everybody knows mary.

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It's not just the people that know her.

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She's done it could be an award that says everybody knows mary, kind of like the movie about mary.

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It's like everybody knows mary I've.

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I've heard that movie before, anything in nursery rhymes, anything that has my name, and I don't even know if you can hear me right now.

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So so I'm just living in my own world drinking my coffee right now.

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We can hear you, but if you would, I guess everybody on the meeting had mentioned that everybody knows Mary.

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But for those that do not know Mary, would you please tell us a little bit about yourself?

00:21:46.624 --> 00:21:48.686
Yeah, so my name's Mary Myers.

00:21:48.686 --> 00:21:54.863
I have been super excited to be in this dynamic space since 2018.

00:21:54.863 --> 00:22:00.172
I came by way of advanced super user.

00:22:00.172 --> 00:22:12.355
I was actually an F&O super user in a manufacturing company and I ran actually I was like just involved in several different SMBs prior to coming to the tech space.

00:22:12.355 --> 00:22:17.948
I've got my degree in business management and accounting, so nothing to do with tech at all.

00:22:17.948 --> 00:22:27.089
Um, then I got into the tech space and I found, um that I liked business central a lot more and I became super obsessed with the power platform.

00:22:27.089 --> 00:22:30.385
So I it absolutely changed my life.

00:22:30.385 --> 00:22:40.532
So I try to share that with as much as many people as possible, and maybe that's why people know me right Is because I just try to share whatever I can you know around.

00:22:40.532 --> 00:22:58.704
So that's what I'm super passionate about is just helping empower other people and as a result of all of, I guess, my community efforts are just kind of grinding over the years, I now run a power platform company called world max that helps extend dynamics.

00:22:58.704 --> 00:23:02.115
So that is that's me well.

00:23:02.135 --> 00:23:16.147
Congratulations again on that wonderful award and also the now planned website for us to send capes or to capes or whatever need they have for the superheroes.

00:23:16.147 --> 00:23:17.010
Cecile.

00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:23.432
I already built a power page this week for a golf event, so I'm ready we can roll them out.

00:23:23.593 --> 00:23:24.294
Of course you did.

00:23:27.780 --> 00:23:29.207
Cecile, what do we have next?

00:23:30.402 --> 00:23:31.204
That's about it.

00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:34.446
Some of us are past year winners.

00:23:37.843 --> 00:23:41.152
So let's introduce the past year winners and what they have won.

00:23:41.152 --> 00:23:43.346
Cecile, who do we have with us?

00:23:43.346 --> 00:23:46.128
And let's see what they won.

00:23:47.461 --> 00:23:51.390
Yeah, we have Christine and Steve Taylor.

00:23:51.390 --> 00:23:54.904
Yeah, let's start with kristin all right.

00:23:54.964 --> 00:23:59.997
Well, uh, kristin hausman, here, I won my award back in.

00:23:59.997 --> 00:24:14.969
2022 was the the first year that they did the superhero awards and I was honored because I won the guardian award, which was, of course, the first one, but it was a little.

00:24:14.969 --> 00:24:31.412
It was a little different than today because I got to win it with Steve Chinsky and also Tom Doran, so we had three of us win that award that year for for the first award, and um and the.

00:24:31.412 --> 00:24:35.644
The guardian award is again.

00:24:35.644 --> 00:24:37.530
It's kind of same as everybody else's.

00:24:37.530 --> 00:24:57.910
You know it's the nomination was by the community, it was voted on by the community, but it was also for users that have gone above and beyond in the Doug community to serve others, share resources, learn and just really be a true community champion at the time.

00:24:57.910 --> 00:25:00.181
So I'm honored to have that award.

00:25:00.181 --> 00:25:06.381
I'm sure Steve is as well, and I believe Sean Dorward won that award this year as well.

00:25:06.381 --> 00:25:07.824
So, super excited.

00:25:08.263 --> 00:25:23.355
That's great to know that you are all guardians uh it's great the guardians of the galaxy, buddy, I was going to say you're guardians of the dynamics 365 galaxy, uh, and also this year's winner as well.

00:25:23.355 --> 00:25:29.832
So now I know who the guardians of the bc or, excuse me, dynamics 365, galaxy R.

00:25:29.832 --> 00:25:36.455
Kristen, would you tell us a little bit about yourself and your fancy mountains?

00:25:37.259 --> 00:25:37.619
Sure, Sure.

00:25:37.619 --> 00:25:46.634
I live just outside of Denver and I own a business called Mount Evans Consulting.

00:25:46.634 --> 00:25:50.009
We focus on business central implementations and support.

00:25:50.009 --> 00:25:58.834
Been a part of the community since 2010-ish.

00:25:58.834 --> 00:26:03.769
Started as a user went into consulting around 2013.

00:26:03.788 --> 00:26:10.990
All right, great Thank you and congratulations, and also thank you for joining us on the call today.

00:26:10.990 --> 00:26:15.730
Steve, I think Cecile said you were next.

00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:19.483
Yeah, hi everybody, steve Chinsky.

00:26:19.483 --> 00:26:27.655
Like Kristen said, I won the award in the first year they started doing the awards for superheroes, the Guardian Award.

00:26:27.655 --> 00:26:32.369
It was a true honor totally.

00:26:32.369 --> 00:26:34.675
My face was dumbfounded when they announced my name.

00:26:34.675 --> 00:26:38.548
I looked like like as if one of those people you know oh, I got the Academy award.

00:26:38.548 --> 00:26:47.252
I'm like and you're freaking out, jumping up and down, I mean, um, you know high-fiving people, um, but yeah, it was a great award, it was a real um.

00:26:47.252 --> 00:26:52.576
You know, I was very humbled by it because it is what Kristen said, it's it's about the community.

00:26:52.576 --> 00:26:57.426
It's it's it's about the community, it's it's kind of you know myself, kristen, even sean, who just won it this past year.

00:26:58.008 --> 00:27:01.317
It's all the stuff we do, you know, for the community and stuff like that.

00:27:01.317 --> 00:27:04.491
So, um, I think it's a great thing.

00:27:04.491 --> 00:27:06.636
I think helping out our community is the number one thing.

00:27:06.636 --> 00:27:07.286
We all do this.

00:27:07.286 --> 00:27:11.856
You know it's like there's no, we do this because we love it.

00:27:11.856 --> 00:27:12.858
I mean seriously.

00:27:12.858 --> 00:27:16.871
I mean all of us do this because we love doing this stuff Year in and year out.

00:27:16.871 --> 00:27:17.732
Help the community out.

00:27:17.732 --> 00:27:18.413
There's nothing.

00:27:18.413 --> 00:27:20.858
There's not like a monetary payment here.

00:27:20.858 --> 00:27:33.208
It's not like there's some sort of you know, we're not looking for the, you know, the awards are just more of that humble acknowledgement by our community that they appreciate the work we do for them, and that's really what it's all about.

00:27:33.208 --> 00:27:34.048
It's the users.

00:27:34.048 --> 00:27:36.835
It could be a partner, it could be anybody, it really doesn't matter.

00:27:36.835 --> 00:27:39.138
And you know that's what I think the award's for.

00:27:39.425 --> 00:27:40.127
Wear the suit, you know.

00:27:40.127 --> 00:27:45.788
Wear the superheroes, you know, and obviously Kristen and I will have to start wearing our.

00:27:45.788 --> 00:27:49.464
We'll have to order through Mary Kristen, I think, the guardian of the galaxy capes.

00:27:49.464 --> 00:27:50.887
I think we need to put that on the back.

00:27:50.887 --> 00:27:51.869
You know where the beasts back.

00:27:51.869 --> 00:27:53.231
You know where the beasts.

00:27:53.231 --> 00:27:53.553
You know.

00:27:53.553 --> 00:27:55.856
The 365 guardians, you know.

00:27:55.856 --> 00:27:57.227
You're like this kind of.

00:27:57.247 --> 00:28:09.509
You know we all sit there without faces or something I don't know I, I was thinking, I was thinking that same exact thing I'm taking, I'm taking notes this will be an enum drop down choice field on you know type.

00:28:09.509 --> 00:28:12.176
We may have like a little capture verification, you know.

00:28:12.176 --> 00:28:20.224
So to make sure that you, you have to be a certified guardian like I could not, I can't, I'm not, you know, I'm not, I don't have access to that cape I'm not a guardian.

00:28:21.567 --> 00:28:25.413
That's okay and very humble for it, yeah I also.

00:28:25.433 --> 00:28:36.576
What I loved about it was that, not only that I wasn't expecting it, I mean you're sort of like I mean I think in my cat I was nominated in two categories and I think there were like 18, 18 uh people nominated in every category.

00:28:36.576 --> 00:28:38.924
I was nominated in two categories and I think there were like 18 people nominated in every category.

00:28:38.924 --> 00:28:44.096
So you're like there's just no way that there's going to be enough people voting for you.

00:28:44.096 --> 00:28:47.375
You sort of like maybe communicate.

00:28:47.375 --> 00:28:59.377
I think I shared it on LinkedIn that I was nominated, but then, after I got the award, so many people, people and there were so many people from dallas and in the event too so they all like came and I voted for you.

00:28:59.377 --> 00:29:18.613
I'm like, wow, like people really actually took the time, because it's just shows that they care enough, because you still have to click on bunch of clicks and make your selections and um, so it's I don't know I it was just phenomenal to know that they cared enough to vote and at the end, you are appreciated.

00:29:19.806 --> 00:29:20.228
Mr Chinsky.

00:29:20.228 --> 00:29:22.756
Sir, we didn't get a chance to hear a little bit about yourself.

00:29:22.756 --> 00:29:34.564
We heard about the wonderful things that you have done for the community and about your award, and now I know you're the guardian of the D365 Galaxy as well with Kristen.

00:29:34.565 --> 00:29:37.489
Just a little bit about myself, steve Chinsky.

00:29:37.489 --> 00:29:45.957
Up here in Massachusetts, south of Boston, I work for a company called Accelerant, director of the dynamics practice.

00:29:45.957 --> 00:29:57.598
Here we obviously concentrate more in the BC space more than anything and obviously implement, advise, consult and do different things, help people out, support, been doing it.

00:29:57.598 --> 00:30:04.934
I've been in this crazy world we live in for over 25 years now, back when it was just called Navision and wasn't even owned by Microsoft.

00:30:04.934 --> 00:30:12.144
So started way back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth and they were eating bones and everything.

00:30:12.144 --> 00:30:22.772
So, as Dan said, mine of course, it's all gone because of BC and NAV and Division, my area is pretty much gone by the wayside.

00:30:22.772 --> 00:30:38.589
Love it, love the travel, love traveling all over the world, having the blast doing this thing, meeting so many people, meeting everybody on this call, really just having fun and getting together at conferences and stuff like that.

00:30:38.589 --> 00:30:39.070
But that's me.

00:30:41.296 --> 00:30:43.247
Thank you very much and again congratulations.

00:30:43.247 --> 00:30:45.913
And also with us we have Taylor.

00:30:45.913 --> 00:30:51.452
Taylor, would you tell us a little bit about your award that you had received, as well as a little bit about yourself?

00:30:52.434 --> 00:31:18.112
Yeah, of course, last year I was very happy to win the Community Superhero Award for diversity and inclusion and, for anyone who doesn't know, I was actually asked to present it this year to Ms Ann Krepke but I didn't know before that, but we ended up having that long, nice call and then I was on a LinkedIn live chat with her and Rachel Profit, also from Microsoft.

00:31:18.112 --> 00:31:22.275
It was amazing winning that award.

00:31:22.275 --> 00:31:40.608
I'm always trying to do as much as I can to promote diversity and inclusion, but specifically pertaining to accessibility, and so it's been pretty cool seeing how much this community has embraced that, and especially the Doug team.

00:31:40.608 --> 00:31:44.576
I compliment Molly and Liz and the whole team.

00:31:44.576 --> 00:31:45.396
Every year.

00:31:45.396 --> 00:31:52.998
It's by far the most accessible in-person event I've been to and it continues to get better every year.

00:31:52.998 --> 00:31:56.055
So I'm very happy about that.

00:31:56.184 --> 00:32:09.151
And I've actually been part of the conference community for about like seven years, which surprises some people because I've only been doing this kind of work for about three years.

00:32:09.151 --> 00:32:14.156
But for some that don't know, sean Dorward, we are related.

00:32:14.156 --> 00:32:17.271
That is my father or my dad.

00:32:17.271 --> 00:32:18.556
He, we are related.

00:32:18.556 --> 00:32:20.520
That is my father or my dad.

00:32:20.540 --> 00:32:27.153
He finds it weird when I call him my father, but yeah, he's a guardian now, so it's almost like you are my father from the Star Wars times.

00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:39.417
Yeah, so he is my dad and I was happy that he won that award and so now he's part of this little community as well, which is really cool that Doug does.

00:32:39.417 --> 00:32:49.632
And yeah, I was extremely happy to win and we live in a small town in South Carolina that no one's heard of, but it's nice here.

00:32:49.632 --> 00:32:57.936
We've got the lake and I've been doing power apps for quite a while and I'm kind of moving towards doing some more training on Power Apps.

00:32:57.936 --> 00:33:00.775
I find I've found to really enjoy that.

00:33:00.775 --> 00:33:03.390
I'm surprised it took me this long.

00:33:03.390 --> 00:33:24.979
Knowing how much I love public speaking and doing sessions on Power Apps, I realize I really enjoy teaching others, and so training is just doing a one-on-one session basically, and so I've been doing more of that and hopefully more people will start using my services soon because I certainly enjoy it.

00:33:26.244 --> 00:33:30.419
Congratulations again on your award and everyone who received the award.

00:33:30.419 --> 00:33:36.696
It's a lot and it should be a big honor to have been nominated and voted by the community.

00:33:36.696 --> 00:33:40.054
And you hit on a couple of key points, taylor, with the community.

00:33:40.054 --> 00:33:43.809
It's strange the community is getting larger.

00:33:43.809 --> 00:33:45.253
I recall call it the community.

00:33:45.253 --> 00:33:47.166
I've had some people say, oh, what is it a cult?

00:33:47.166 --> 00:33:48.269
When I mentioned the community.

00:33:48.269 --> 00:33:49.493
But it's not.

00:33:49.493 --> 00:33:51.086
It's actually like a large family.

00:33:51.086 --> 00:34:02.681
It is strange how it feels where everybody is so willing to help each other and everyone's so willing to give back to each other that I'm happy to be part of it.

00:34:02.681 --> 00:34:03.989
And you also mentioned about Doug.

00:34:04.450 --> 00:34:08.608
I've been on the conference circuit for a long time and I will even say like this past year.

00:34:08.650 --> 00:34:20.634
I think the Doug conference, the NMXCon live conference that was in Denver, was probably one of the better conferences that I had attended and I've gone to several conferences, not to take away from other conferences conference that was in Denver.

00:34:20.733 --> 00:34:24.280
It was probably one of the better conferences that I had attended and I've gone to several conferences not to take away from other conferences.

00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:37.376
I mean it's tough to say which one's the best or which one's the better when you have so many great ones, but I will say the one that they had this past year really energized me again for the community and for the product and for what's going on, and I'm looking forward to see what you know.

00:34:37.376 --> 00:34:45.793
I think it will be hard to top, but I'm looking forward to see what's in store for everybody next year in Chicago for the conference next year.

00:34:45.793 --> 00:34:55.405
But again I'd like to thank everybody again for participating and I'd also like to congratulate everybody again for receiving the award.

00:34:55.405 --> 00:34:59.737
It is something to be proud of and something that you have in there.

00:34:59.737 --> 00:35:10.516
Even if you're not a guardian of the BC Galaxy, you are one of the superheroes of the community and again, thank you to you all.

00:35:10.664 --> 00:35:15.717
Brad, do you mind if I take a moment to make a little public service announcement?

00:35:15.717 --> 00:35:24.099
Absolutely Well, I would be remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to take advantage of the reach we have here.

00:35:24.099 --> 00:35:29.458
I recently started a community group for professionals working with disabilities.

00:35:29.458 --> 00:35:46.271
So if you are interested or know someone who's interested, there's a form on my LinkedIn page or you can DM me on LinkedIn and we meet, have a recurring meeting twice a month, and so there's.

00:35:46.271 --> 00:35:55.836
There's a more detailed description of what the group will do in my most recent posts, so it's called diverseiverse Minds, so check it out.

00:35:56.237 --> 00:36:06.335
Okay, so Diverse Minds is the name of the new group that you started for individuals with disabilities who are coming into the community and other services.

00:36:06.335 --> 00:36:16.925
And again on your LinkedIn, you said you have a post with some more information on that and we'll put everyone's LinkedIn profile link in the show notes.

00:36:16.925 --> 00:36:35.242
So for anybody who would like to get in contact with anybody that's a superhero I guess you're also I'll call you all superheroes, now that anybody that is with us that's a superhero to be able to learn a little bit more about what you do and also potentially collaborate with you and also become part of the community.

00:36:35.242 --> 00:36:38.929
If they're not part of the community, chris, what do you say?

00:36:40.532 --> 00:36:44.259
he's just sitting there, buddy I, I don't know, I'm, I'm, I'm honored.

00:36:44.259 --> 00:36:47.472
I'm just listening to all the superheroes I know what they all do.

00:36:47.753 --> 00:36:49.757
This is awesome no, it is great.

00:36:49.757 --> 00:36:50.326
It is great.

00:36:50.326 --> 00:36:54.065
Well, again, thank you again to each and one of you for all that you do for the community.

00:36:54.065 --> 00:37:03.009
I may not talk to all of you directly all the time, but I see a lot of the great things that everybody does and I do appreciate it and get something from everybody.

00:37:03.009 --> 00:37:19.213
And again, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to speak with us and I look forward to talking with you all again soon and seeing you at some of the upcoming events, conferences, meetups or any of the other local events that occur.

00:37:19.213 --> 00:37:20.856
Thank you very much.

00:37:20.856 --> 00:37:22.077
Have a good afternoon.

00:37:22.077 --> 00:37:24.121
Ciao, ciao, take care everyone.

00:37:24.141 --> 00:37:24.882
Thank you for having us.

00:37:24.882 --> 00:37:26.065
Bye, thank you, bye, thank you.

00:37:28.333 --> 00:37:35.414
Thank you, chris, for your time for another episode of In the Dynamics Corner Chair, and thank you to our guests for participating.

00:37:35.764 --> 00:37:37.250
Thank you, brad, for your time.

00:37:37.250 --> 00:37:40.762
It is a wonderful episode of Dynamics Corner Chair.

00:37:40.762 --> 00:37:44.213
I would also like to thank our guests for joining us.

00:37:44.213 --> 00:37:47.204
Thank you for all of our listeners tuning in as well.

00:37:47.204 --> 00:38:01.757
You can find Brad at developerlifecom, that is D-V-L-P-R-L-I-F-Ecom, and you can interact with them via Twitter D-V-L-P-R-L-I-F-E.

00:38:01.757 --> 00:38:13.489
You can also find me at Mattalinoio, m-a-t-a-l-i-n-oi-o, and my Twitter handle is Mattalino16.

00:38:13.489 --> 00:38:14.871
And you can see those links down below in the show notes.

00:38:14.871 --> 00:38:16.695
Again, thank you everyone, and my Twitter handle is Mattelino16.

00:38:16.695 --> 00:38:18.818
And you can see those links down below in the show notes.

00:38:18.818 --> 00:38:20.161
Again, thank you everyone.

00:38:20.161 --> 00:38:23.471
Thank you and take care.