She is not only tolerant of hearing noes but is thankful for their existence: “The noes are actually a gift,” she says. Her mentor, she explains, had instructed her to “go out into the world and gather as many noes as you possibly can. It is your homework to be rejected over and over and over and over, and then come back and report on it.” It was, she said, “the most important thing I could have ever done and the most important advice I could have
