Doris Tetz Carpenter
Episode 14

Narrator:

Welcome, friends, to another episode of The Story & Experience Podcast. Join your host, Japhet De Oliveira, with his guest today and discover the moments that shape us, our families and communities.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Well, welcome to our episode on The Story & Experience Podcast. It is always fun to be able to connect with a friend, and today for our guest on this wonderful adventure, which is just for everybody who's listened to this. You do understand that there's no preparation. Nobody has any idea. Our guests do not know what their questions are. They do not know where we're going to go. How are we going to land? I don't know where they're going to go, which is actually kind of the adventure of this entire episode, right? Is that you get to experience this. We get to experience this together, and so this is just going to open the entire door. It could be a Pandora's box. It could be just a beautiful moment, right? I'm just excited to begin this entire process in. The process is really simple.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Let me just explain how it works. It works like this. We have a 100 questions. We're not going to cover all 100 questions, right? I'm going to just do the first 10. And the first 10 are really easy, and then our guests gets to choose the next 11 to a 100. And as you progress through them, they get harder and harder. And of course, I'm going to encourage you not to go to question 100, because that's really, really difficult and resist that one as much as you can and choose any number. You can choose up to five of them or you can choose more if you feel that way, and I have a couple of secret questions that I can add into the mix of it as we go along.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Let's begin because we only have 30 minutes. It's unedited, no mistakes, everything counts, everything flows. It's just about an incredible story and experience moment that we have together here. Right? Why don't you share with us, first of all, your name and if there's any weird pronunciation, and I say weird because I have weird pronunciations of my own name. If there's any weird pronunciation issues that we should be aware of.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Thanks. My name is Doris Tetz Carpenter. Emphasis on the Tetz in my last name. That's the part that gets mispronounced the most, and I won't go into the mispronunciations on that one.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Do we have to hyphenate the name or?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

No, I actually prefer no hyphen.

Japhet De Oliveira:

No hyphen. Okay. All right. Well, and do people actually call you Tetz Carpenter ever at school or last name?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

No, because that's my married name.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Oh, alright. That's good. It's good. Alight, super. Was your maiden name then before you were married, was it Carpenter or was it Tetz?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Tetz.

Japhet De Oliveira:

All right. All right. Good. Well, this fantastic. We will from now on refer to you as Doris Tetz Carpenter, or just Doris.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

There you go.

Japhet De Oliveira:

All right, we'll work it out. Why don't you share with us Doris, then, just what do you do for work at the moment?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I work in Adventist Health as the Human Performance Executive for Talent Strategy and Total Rewards. All the fun human resources types of things like recruitment, workforce development and planning, employee relations, benefits, compensation, amazing team that I get to work with and serve the associates of Adventist Health.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Oh My. Some people love human resources and human performance and some people don't. Why do you think that is?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yeah, I think that's a great question. I think that the issue with human resources is usually when anybody comes to us, just like when anybody goes to a hospital, it's usually when something's not going well. We have the fun part of hiring and onboarding, but then we also, if you've got benefits questions, that's great, but if you've got a benefits issue or something, that's not working the way that it was intended, then that's not a fun moment to be in as a person. So, we try to make those smoother.

Japhet De Oliveira:

You deal with the fun stuff and the hard stuff.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Exactly.

Japhet De Oliveira:

All right, That's great. How long have you been in this current role then?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

This role? One year, but Adventist Health as a whole, around 16 years.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Sixteen years. Oh my goodness.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yes sir.

Japhet De Oliveira:

That's fantastic. All right. All right. Here, questions are really easy, right? So far we're doing well. What's your morning, when you begin your morning, what's your drink of choice? Is it water, is it one of those green liquid smoothies. Is it coffee, tea? What would you say is your morning drink?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

It's coffee. Coffee with cream, no sugar.

Japhet De Oliveira:

No sugar. Black, Americano, or espresso, or...?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

We AeroPress the coffee. It's done to a certain temperature. There's a whole situation that happens at home thanks to my husband who's made the process very easy, but it is very precise.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Very precise.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yes.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Are you one of those people that like you heat up the machines before you use them and okay. No? All right.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I would definitely not be that person, but I appreciate somebody that would do that for me. Anybody that wants to do all of that. That's awesome. But I don't have that much patience to be thinking through those things.

Japhet De Oliveira:

That's fantastic. Good coffee. Good coffee to start off the day is actually fantastic. I'm with you on that. All right. Brilliant. Where were you were born?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I was born in West Covina, California, in Southern California.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Good. Have you gone back to visit that place?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Actually no. I was raised all around the state of California have been all over the place. So you drive through West Covina when you're going around Southern California, but I haven't specifically gone back there.

Japhet De Oliveira:

All right. So now just to test your imagination, when you were a child, did you dream of HP and human performance? Is that what you thought? When I grow up one day, this is what I want to be. Or did you have another idea of what you wanted to be when you were a child?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

My dream was to be just like my first-grade teacher, Mrs. Ammann. She was an amazing teacher in Pine Hills Junior Academy in Auburn. And she was the best teacher in the world and she was loving, kind, amazing, generous, and I wanted to be exactly her. And so I studied to become a teacher and have my degree actually in English education to teach high school. That was the original dream.

Japhet De Oliveira:

You do teach. I mean, that's what you do, right. And in your role, I mean, you're teaching us all the time, bring us in and teaching us. So that's fantastic. Well done. All right. Now, what would people say about you? Would they say that you are an extrovert or an introvert.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Extrovert.

Japhet De Oliveira:

And would you agree?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yes, I would.

Japhet De Oliveira:

All right. Some people are like, no, I wouldn't agree with that. And then are you one of those just out of interest of habits, right? Are you an early riser or one of those late night owls?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Can you be both? I think as you get older, every year, the time starts to compress and things. I used to like to stay up really late, but now I'm starting to go to bed earlier, get up earlier. So things change.

Japhet De Oliveira:

I don't know if well-being would approve of that message.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I get eight hours of sleep every night. I really do. That's very important to me.

Japhet De Oliveira:

All right. What's the first thing you do every morning?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Another well-being approved message. I look at my cell phone.

Japhet De Oliveira:

You look at your cell phone. All right.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yeah. I like to see what's up. And what was the first thought this morning? Oh my goodness. I think I wanted to get up. It was earlier. I wanted to jump out of bed, make a cup of tea. See this doesn't go with my coffee story, but I made a cup of tea and opened the door so that I could get that nice, cool breeze in the morning and just kind of sit there and call my family.

Japhet De Oliveira:

That is lovely. Tell me which type of tea did you make?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

English breakfast.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Oh, very good. And did you add milk and sugar or just...

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yes, both. A proper cup. Not in a proper, not in a proper cup.

Japhet De Oliveira:

I'm now super excited. I mean, I was excited before obviously. Everything was great, but now it's a home run. It's a home run. Okay. So we have just done, obviously we'd done more than 10 questions. It was just really easy. The questions that follow are the ones that are just the harder ones. And so you get to pick between basically number 11 on my incredible sheet, all the way to number 100, which is really the hardest question. And you just pick a number and I will scroll through this silently because it's on a digital sheet.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Seventeen. Yeah, 17.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Seventeen.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I've been thinking about this.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Okay, 17, here it goes. Let's see what it actually says it. Number 17, share with us, what day is the most special to you on the calendar and why?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Like a weekday almost...

Japhet De Oliveira:

Oh no, no. You can choose.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Any day?

Japhet De Oliveira:

Any day in the calendar and why?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Oh, that's fun. Well I love birthdays. I love birthdays and anniversaries stuff. So anything where I can plan a special event that's for family or for friends to bring everybody together and to have a really fun experience and with food and lots of laughs and hopefully an all-day adventure in the city or somewhere in the park or something, just to have a really good time with friends. So anything that can revolve around, celebrating a person and bringing us all together.

Japhet De Oliveira:

So do you like to ... You like to actually do this for other people. Do you like this for other people to do this for you?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I do it for myself, too. I like to plan my own birthday parties. I love to plan my own birthday party and make it like a fun thing to bring my friends together. Because my friends live all across the country and the state. The close friends that I have from high school and college. So if I can plan something that brings us all together and gives us an excuse, then that's a great thing to do.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Well, let me ask you a question. I know this is not number 17, but if this was like a number 80, if you didn't plan it for yourself, would they plan it for you, Doris?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I don't know. I don't know. That's the hard part because, and I don't like to put that pressure on anybody. I would never want somebody to feel obligated to do that. So to me it's more fun to plan it and bring everybody together.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Would it be planned the way that you want it to be planned?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Maybe. Maybe not. It depends.

Japhet De Oliveira:

See I didn't know this about you. This is fantastic that you love to give this way and you'd love to create this way and you'd love to do even do it for yourself. That's great. All right. Seventeen it is. All right. What's your next one?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Twenty-seven.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Twenty-seven, all right? Great. Let's go here. Bring us into your kitchen for a special meal. What would you be making?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Oh, that's such a great question. I'm already like, well, how many people are coming over? So it would depend on the size of the group. So I used to, when I was in Central Valley Network, I worked there for a while. I used to host the HR Christmas party at my house. So I would have like 15 of us over and I would spend the full day cooking. And I actually learned this from Darla Phillips, who was my boss before she was the HR director before. So she used to invite us all to her house. And I thought that was just the coolest thing to hang out in that way. So I would cook all day and make like big pots of soup, lasagna, desserts, everything, appetizers and just have everybody come over and hang out and eat, play games and just be in a different atmosphere. So definitely I have a special lasagna I make.

Japhet De Oliveira:

A special lasagna. Is it vegetarian? Is a vegan or is...

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

It's vegetarian. It's not vegan. It has many cheeses

Japhet De Oliveira:

It has many cheeses. I feel like the cows and the goats out there are just blessing us right now. That's great. Good lasagna is actually hard to make. It is hard to make, so well done. Well done for working that out. And it took you all day. So it must've been a feast.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

It was a feast. I mean, the table needed to be like... And the kitchen counter... you want that feeling of you're walking into a lot of love. To me when you cook for somebody you're showing that you care about them.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Oh, I like that. I like that. All right. Good. 27 it is. Next one, what number?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Ooh, 14.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Fourteen. All right. Tell us about what you enjoy doing outside of work.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I love, we've already started talking about food quite a bit on this podcast, so that's an interesting thing. That's okay. So love anything around finding new food. I love all kinds of food. I like to find people that are doing street vending. Folks that are doing pop-ups.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Really?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yes. I am way into anybody that's...

Japhet De Oliveira:

Oh you're brave.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Oh, I think you're brave. Anything can happen anywhere. So I think it's just so exciting to find something that you've never had before. So I love that type of feeling. And I also love going to art galleries or popups where people are creating things and you get to experience and get the gift of what they have been creating to share with the community.

Japhet De Oliveira:

I've got to find out then, where did you learn or discover that you have such a broad palette?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I was raised in a family where my mom is from Peru. And so immediately her food that she was cooking at home was always not the typical California, whatever, the traditional mac and cheese, peanut butter and jelly. I was very jealous of the kids that had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch, because I had a Tupperware with rice and stews, and you know, you open it and the smells of cumin and everything is coming out and the kids were like, what are you eating? But I, that's what I'm accustomed to. And we always had fun going to find new food and learn from other cultures. So that's where it started.

Japhet De Oliveira:

That's fantastic. That's fantastic. I do relate to that. I do understand what you mean by that. Have you ever been to Peru?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yes. Many times. Half my family lives in Peru.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Oh, okay. All right. All right. So second home. All right. That's fantastic. Good. Good. All right. So lots of pallets. Lots of different places, even food trucks, not scared of them. If you were traveling somewhere and you saw a little stand on the side of the road, would you stop and try the food?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Turn that car around.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Really? Really?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

We have to. If it's something I've never had, I need to know what it is. Hopefully vegetarian, because I'm vegetarian. But yeah. I need to know what it is. We're going to try it.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Would you hand sanitize yourself out of the Gazoo before you do that? Or are you not worried about that at all?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yes. I mean, the COVID thing has definitely made me huge into hand sanitizing constantly, but yeah. Sanitize before, sanitize after, everything's fine.

Japhet De Oliveira:

So you have a stomach of steel?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I don't know, but I'm going to take you on an adventure. The fact that you're so nervous about it, I'm like, you know what, we're going to ... I've got plans for you.

Japhet De Oliveira:

It's not like I've only eaten one menu. I'm just saying this is really good. This is pretty exciting. All right. Great. Super. All right. What'll be your next number?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Oh yeah, 79.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Seventy-nine. All right, here we go. Doris, share, if you would, a painful memory you wish you could forget.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Somehow I knew you were going to ask that question. I had a feeling, so looking back, I'm like, man, he's going to ask a hard one. When those get tipped. if they're hard, they have to be painful.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yeah. So when I look back on my life and some of the painful memories that I have, yeah. There are things that, this last year has been hard. I think for a lot of us in a lot of us have lost family members and things like that. So friends, so there's things like that. But when I look at things that I regret and painful things that I've done, it's when I've hurt somebody else's feelings and when I've done something that harmed somebody else. So I can think back to a moment in like seventh grade where I did something still, and I still feel regret for hurting somebody's feelings, unintentionally through thoughtlessness and through carelessness. And that's really painful to me to not be conscious enough of your own self and your impact on the world and to cause harm to somebody else. I think that's really... I just wanted to sit next to my best friend was my intention. I said, oh, move, so I can sit next to my best friend. And that made the sweetest person in the school cry. That's horrible. That still hits, still sits with me like as a reminder to not be careless around other people and how they're perceiving and interacting with the world.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Well, and it also shows self-awareness as well. When did you recognize that that happened? Was it immediate for you when that moment happened with that kid or...

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I think it was probably when I went home and was like, how could I have made this sweetest person cry? What did I do? And then probably years of being in high school and things like that, and realizing, doing similar things over and over again, and realizing how your actions... Especially you asked earlier, if I was an extrovert or an introvert. As somebody who tended to be louder and out and active and things like that, how that in a careless way could negatively impact somebody. I think that's years of learning and I think I still hurt people's feelings now. And so that's not something, that's something that's important to me to try to be cognizant of.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Do you use that to teach? Do you use that moment to teach others?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I never have actually. I think ... Actually I just did and that's, I've never used it to teach like in the workplace. My niece is 14 years old and I'm very close to her. So I did just use this example with her last week. Not that she had done anything, but kind of like planning for like, hey, what are you going to do is you're choosing. She's going to be going to a new school. So as you're learning to meet new people and things like that you have a chance to start over and think about how you're impacting people. So that's a closer conversation, more of a one-on-one.

Japhet De Oliveira:

That's beautiful. You know, we learned a lot from painful experiences, but we can also, we can ignore them. So thank you. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for sharing. It's important. And I think it's great for people listening as well to know that we all experience that and we can all do something with that as well. Right? Which direction do you want to go with your next number?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Oh, that's great. Let's see. Twenty-nine.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Twenty-nine. Right here we go. It is share three things that make you instantly happy.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Oh my goodness.

Japhet De Oliveira:

I mean instantly happy. I mean if this happens, I could be sad, but if this happens, I'm instantly happy.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

That's great. Yeah. So I think seeing my niece. I adore her. She's so cool. A lot of fun to hang around. Being with my husband makes me very happy. He's another person...

Japhet De Oliveira:

Well, when he's listening to this, he'll be like, well, score.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

He'll be like, wait. She said her niece first. And I think the other thing is we alluded to earlier, it's just, anytime there's something that's going to be a new experience. And you realize like there's a new food truck. There's a new artist having a pop-up. There's a road I've never been down before. I'm like, ooh, that makes me happy and excited to think about what could be around the corner.

Japhet De Oliveira:

I love discovering this about you, how brave you are and how excited you are about adventure. This is a new side of you that I never knew. It's great. I mean some people are cautious and some people are wise and some people are wise in their bravery. I mean, you are a wise person. I know that about you. You're a very sensitive person, but the bravery and the excitement, adventure, that's really great ... about you. So we're super. All right. Great. Three instant happy things. Super. All right, let's go. Let's go for a couple more. What's, which direction you want to go?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Okay. Fifty.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Fifty. Dead center. I know you will do. Share about who has influenced you professionally.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Oh man.

Japhet De Oliveira:

I know, there's too many great people.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yeah. That's a great, oh my goodness. I've had, as I mentioned earlier, I've been with Adventist Health for 16 years. So I've worked with so many really mission -ocused leaders and people that truly care about the communities that we serve, and probably the person that I had the opportunity to work the longest with in that type of capacity was Rick Rawson, who's now the president at Rideout. And the way that Rick engaged leaders. I'm sure he still does it this way. So the way that Rick engages leaders and the way that he sets that vision for what is possible in an organization. When we were in Central Valley, this was before Central Valley had a focus on the clinics or caring so much for medically underserved communities, before all of Adventist Health did. And he painted this vision for what was possible for Adventist Health that we didn't believe was possible.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

We didn't think we could be such an integral part of the community. That we could be fiscally, okay as an organization. We were in very hard times. We had to monitor how much paper we were using in HR. It was like being back teaching elementary school and monitoring my paper usage. So we were in a dark times and he set that vision of this is what we're going to achieve. This is what we're going to do. And I remember the first time that he did that and we were like, some people are like, that's never going to happen or those types of things, that's impossible. And he always encouraged us with the philosophies of what was possible, what we could do, and talk to us about ideas, not about the tactics that we were going to be doing. And so that just gave us the freedom to bring all of our team's gifts to the table and bring that forward. And the vision did come true and is a core part of how we care for medically underserved communities now in Adventist Health. So just a prophetic voice and in the Central Valley and my career. And that was, I really appreciate that.

Japhet De Oliveira:

That's beautiful. That's beautiful. It is great to honor and is great to recognize those who have actually influenced us. So I love that. Love that. Appreciate that. All right. Let's go for our, let's go for just one more. And then I've got a couple of random questions that I want to bring.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Okay. Let's do ... You're so tempting with that 100.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Oh really?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

You said no one should ever ask it.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Oh really, okay.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Is that going to throw off your podcast where you're like, nobody should ever ask 100? I have to ask 100 because you said don't ask 100.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Some people are brave and they want to go for the 100. You did the 50. You want to go for 100?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I want 100. I need to know what that question is.

Japhet De Oliveira:

All right. Here's the question 100. Tell us about one question you think that I should not ask you. That you don't want to answer, but actually it should be the question that I should ask you.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

That's a really hard question. Oh.

Japhet De Oliveira:

So what's the one question that you just don't want to answer?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

That's seriously. I'm sorry. You're not going to be able to edit this podcast. Cause it's like, silence. This is not a good idea for a podcast with this silence.

Japhet De Oliveira:

It's okay. And here's the thing when I thought about that question, I thought about it for myself. And I thought about all, a lot of these questions. Well, in that direction, because the truth is that there are questions that we have even for ourselves. Right? That, hmm. I just don't know. One question you just don't want to answer, but yet that's the question we should be asked today.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I think I wouldn't want to talk about the things that have broken my heart in my career. I think the things that have been painful to work through in a long career. I wouldn't want to talk about that right now.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Yeah.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I think because it's so authentic and so real to everybody's experiences, and I think that's best done in a smaller setting where you have built trust and things like that. But I think that would be a hard thing to talk about.

Japhet De Oliveira:

That would be, but saying that out loud is really one of the first steps in recognizing that maybe you need to go find that space with the right mentors, the right friends and the right community to kind of process that.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yes. You're right.

Japhet De Oliveira:

There are other people who probably feel exactly the same as you.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Exactly. And so name it so you can claim it. I love that. You should join SyncTALK.

Japhet De Oliveira:

You should, you should. People should. People should actually go utilize that. Yeah, absolutely.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

No, it's an amazing, amazing program.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Absolutely. Absolutely. But, but I think that's actually, it's just the first step in actually recognizing that we all have complex things that are going on in our life. So thank you for sharing that. And it is, and for being on, and I should've said at the beginning, when I didn't say this to you, but I should have said, you know, you actually have the option to kind of say, I want to skip that one after you've heard it, but you know, you're very brave. And so I thought go for it. Go for it. So here's a couple of random questions. What would you say to a 21-year-old Doris today?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I would say enjoy the things as they're happening and appreciate the people that are around you and that are teaching you and don't feel anxious for the future. Like be in that moment and appreciating the things that you're doing in that moment.

Japhet De Oliveira:

I like that. I think many people feel the anxiety at 21. The unknown. And if they had perspective, I'm with you. Yeah. That's really good. That's really good. We believe in this idea that people should work from the overflow, right? Rather than just the dregs of, of the bucket and stuff. But in order to do that, you have to replenish your soul. So what fills your bucket? What replenishes your soul?

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I really, there's a few things, spending time with friends and family and then also I am part of an exercise group in Sacramento. There's a company called TEAMride, and it's basically these high-intensity spin classes that is all positive, but it's super positive. It is not competitive. And so it's all about... The only competition is in your own brain with yourself, which is that you have to deal with that and get through that, which is an interesting thing, but I'm almost to 600 rides. I'm going to hit 600 rides next month I think.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Not competitive, but I'm almost to 600 rides. Gotcha.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Yes, because I was not a working-out person. So the fact that I kept showing up is because of the community of it and the fact that people were there and celebrating each other and that it's focused on the energy and the music. So that's one thing that definitely, especially, they even did virtual while we were at home, which was its own thing. But the fact that we were able to maintain that community and also get the positivity of that exercise, which we needed, we were all stuck in our houses. That's been something that's been really helpful for me for the last year.

Japhet De Oliveira:

That's fantastic. Unfortunately, our time is up. I can't believe 30 minutes has just gone by like that. It's just like been a blink. It's been absolutely an amazing adventure to be with you online here. And to be able to just hear a little snippet into the brave person that you are. But, I think also what I hope that everybody has also heard is that the compassion, the heart that you have and the authenticity that you have as well as just coming through. I think it's actually interesting that you trained to be a teacher, right? And you're now in HR/HP taking care of people, bringing people in and take care of them, dealing with difficult conversations, good conversations, but actually developing them. That's ultimately what you're doing. You're developing the entire company and I appreciate all that you do for us. And I appreciate the way you take care of us and thank you for being part of The Story and Experience podcast.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Thanks for having me.

Japhet De Oliveira:

God bless you and take care of you. Yeah. And keep up the bravery, and sometime we will stop and experience one of these side carts. Although maybe I should set up the side cart first.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

I've got a plan already.

Japhet De Oliveira:

Oh, no. I'm kind of worried. All right. Blessings to you. Thanks so much. You take care.

Doris Tetz Carpenter:

Bye.

Narrator:

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