As someone whose career um has been guided by wanting to ensure um and at least play a role or be a part of the increase in quality of life um for a community, for a household, and recognizing that one way to do that is through employment. and through training and at its core discovering the value and worth that an individual's existence and capabilities um are when they're when when there's someone uh that's taking the time to recognize that like that first and foremost like that's how I would define like why I do what I do and when people ask me like what's your Sasha what's your life mission or how would you define or describe your career and why you do what you do and my response is always like I just want to see quality of life improvements for everybody that everyone has the possibility to make for themselves the life that they that they want and and maximizing their experience besides in in instead of maximizing profit.
This one person and investing in them has a com like the return on investment that we are going to experience is going to be in a tr like a social benefit for the common good because that person having an opportunity and starting to work. Not only is not only is that social return on investment um in the form of that person going back to their home and their household and feeling better, showing up better to their their community members, their neighbors.
But on a real economic level, like that person is also earning an income and paying taxes. And those taxes go towards services. there's a savings on someone who's working and not recid like if they have a previous conviction, they're not getting arrested again and going back into the system. Like there are very real cost savings to society, but the common good that does emerge from business practices that really prioritize people um is the ripple effect benefit um to the entire community.
Like that to me is the common good. It's like who stands to benefit from one person experiencing transformation in their life. all of the touch points that that person has with their employer, with their family, with the different stores that they can now shop at. All because they were able to like take a step in the right direction and having someone Yeah. think about their value, worth and experience and and having modeled for them or created, you know, they're being by being in a in community with um someone that was living out these principles.
