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The European edition of the Fortune 500, ranking companies by revenue.

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Energy sector dominated this year for the first time since 2008, with 28 companies featured on the list.

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Shell celebrates its birthday on April 23rd, the anniversary of the 1907 merger between the U.K.’s Shell Transport and Trading Company and the Netherlands’ Royal Dutch. Since then it has consistently been among Europe’s, and the world’s, largest companies. Like most energy majors, Shell is highly diversified, including oil and gas exploration and extraction, refining and petrochemicals (lubricants and specialist fuels for example), pipelines and petrol forecourts, and energy trading. It also has a growing portfolio of renewable and low-carbon energy assets, including electric vehicle charging points. Shell’s big long-term push, however, has been from oil to gas, including liquefied natural gas. Through 2021-2023, this division has accounted for between a third and more than half of the group’s earnings. Shell has been headquartered in London since 2022, but retains substantial corporate functions in The Hague, reflecting its long history in the Netherlands.

The corporations on our annual list posted aggregate revenues of $41 trillion for the second year in a row.

The corporations on our annual list of the world’s largest companies delivered a record $41 trillion in aggregate revenues.

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<span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Europe’s largest energy company climbed three ranks after it reported a 41% increase in revenue in 2022 and more than doubled its profit amid high oil and gas prices caused, in part, by the war in Ukraine. \n- After Russia cut off Shell's natural gas pipelines to Europe, the energy giant, which is headquartered in London, had an especially bumper year for liquified natural gas, a state in which gas is condensed and easier to transport. The company's reporting category that includes liquified natural gas earnings skyrocketed almost 176% from 2021. \n- Chief executive Ben van Beurden, the fossil fuel giant’s leader for about nine years, stepped down in January 2023, and Wael Sawan, a decades-long veteran at the company, was promoted to CEO.\n- Of the $25 billion Shell put aside for capital improvements in 2022, it invested $12.5 billion into its oil business, while allocating $4.3 billion to low-carbon energy projects.&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:769,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}">Europe’s largest energy company climbed three ranks after it reported a 41% increase in revenue in 2022 and more than doubled its profit amid high oil and gas prices caused, in part, by the war in Ukraine. 
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 	<li><span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Europe’s largest energy company climbed three ranks after it reported a 41% increase in revenue in 2022 and more than doubled its profit amid high oil and gas prices caused, in part, by the war in Ukraine. \n- After Russia cut off Shell's natural gas pipelines to Europe, the energy giant, which is headquartered in London, had an especially bumper year for liquified natural gas, a state in which gas is condensed and easier to transport. The company's reporting category that includes liquified natural gas earnings skyrocketed almost 176% from 2021. \n- Chief executive Ben van Beurden, the fossil fuel giant’s leader for about nine years, stepped down in January 2023, and Wael Sawan, a decades-long veteran at the company, was promoted to CEO.\n- Of the $25 billion Shell put aside for capital improvements in 2022, it invested $12.5 billion into its oil business, while allocating $4.3 billion to low-carbon energy projects.&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:769,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}">After Russia cut off Shell's natural gas pipelines to Europe, the energy giant, which is headquartered in London, had an especially bumper year for liquified natural gas, a state in which gas is condensed and easier to transport. The company's reporting category that includes liquified natural gas earnings skyrocketed almost 176% from 2021.</li> 
 	<li><span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Europe’s largest energy company climbed three ranks after it reported a 41% increase in revenue in 2022 and more than doubled its profit amid high oil and gas prices caused, in part, by the war in Ukraine. \n- After Russia cut off Shell's natural gas pipelines to Europe, the energy giant, which is headquartered in London, had an especially bumper year for liquified natural gas, a state in which gas is condensed and easier to transport. The company's reporting category that includes liquified natural gas earnings skyrocketed almost 176% from 2021. \n- Chief executive Ben van Beurden, the fossil fuel giant’s leader for about nine years, stepped down in January 2023, and Wael Sawan, a decades-long veteran at the company, was promoted to CEO.\n- Of the $25 billion Shell put aside for capital improvements in 2022, it invested $12.5 billion into its oil business, while allocating $4.3 billion to low-carbon energy projects.&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:769,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}">Chief executive Ben van Beurden, the fossil fuel giant’s leader for about nine years, stepped down in January 2023, and Wael Sawan, a decades-long veteran at the company, was promoted to CEO.</li> 
 	<li><span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Europe’s largest energy company climbed three ranks after it reported a 41% increase in revenue in 2022 and more than doubled its profit amid high oil and gas prices caused, in part, by the war in Ukraine. \n- After Russia cut off Shell's natural gas pipelines to Europe, the energy giant, which is headquartered in London, had an especially bumper year for liquified natural gas, a state in which gas is condensed and easier to transport. The company's reporting category that includes liquified natural gas earnings skyrocketed almost 176% from 2021. \n- Chief executive Ben van Beurden, the fossil fuel giant’s leader for about nine years, stepped down in January 2023, and Wael Sawan, a decades-long veteran at the company, was promoted to CEO.\n- Of the $25 billion Shell put aside for capital improvements in 2022, it invested $12.5 billion into its oil business, while allocating $4.3 billion to low-carbon energy projects.&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:769,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}">Of the $25 billion Shell put aside for capital improvements in 2022, it invested $12.5 billion into its oil business, while allocating $4.3 billion to low-carbon energy projects.</li> 
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The first-ever European edition of the Fortune 500, ranking companies by revenue. 

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One of the world’s largest energy companies, London-headquartered multinational Shell is also Europe’s largest business. It had a bumper year in 2022, with revenue rising 41.6% to $386.2 billion on high oil and gas prices caused, in part, by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Profit more than doubled from the previous year, to $42.3 billion—a record for the business.   
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 	<li data-leveltext="●" data-font="Verdana" data-listid="90" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;●&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Performance was particularly strong in liquified natural gas, a condensed form of natural gas that is easier to store and transport, after Russia cut off its Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines to Europe. Earnings for Shell’s wider integrated gas category rose 174% in 2022, to over half of the group’s total.    </li> 
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 	<li data-leveltext="●" data-font="Verdana" data-listid="90" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;●&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Of its $25 billion capital expenditure in 2022, Shell invested half into oil and gas, while allocating $3.5 billion to its renewables and energy solutions division, which includes gas trading alongside wind and solar. Shell has an official target to be a net zero business—including in its Scope 3 emissions, which cover the end use of its products—by 2050. </li> 
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Aggregate sales hit $37.8 trillion last year—an increase of 19%, the highest annual growth rate in the list’s history.

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The energy giant Shell is bouncing back from its pandemic-induced losses. Shell reported $20.1 billion in earnings in 2021—a sharp increase from the $20.6 billion loss it recorded in 2020. In late 2021, shareholders approved a string of major changes at the 115-year old giant: They simplified Shell's share structure, moved its tax residence from the Netherlands to the U.K., and dropped "Royal Dutch" from the company's name. Shell capped its strong 2021 by announcing an $8.5 billion share-buyback program in the first half of 2022. In the first quarter of 2022, the firm's profits reached $9.1 billion, its biggest quarterly profit ever, as oil prices skyrocketed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine; those gains helped ease the sting of the $4.2 billion in writeoffs it announced related to its decision to withdraw from operating in Russia.

Total revenue for the world’s biggest companies fell 4.8% to $31.7 trillion this year—the first decline in half a decade.

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In 2020, the Anglo-Dutch energy giant swung to a $21.7 billion loss, with noncash impairments of $28.1 billion. That drop pushed Shell from No. 5 to No. 19 this year, slipping below rival BP. The loss came on the heels of a pledge to transition its business away from fossil fuels in the coming decades, and target net zero by 2050. Since the start of the new year, rising oil prices have helped to swing the company back to quarterly profits. But in May 2021 it faced a new challenge, after a Dutch court ordered Shell to slash emissions even further.

This year's Fortune Global 500 generated $33.3 trillion in revenues and $2.1 trillion in profits.

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Royal Dutch Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas multinational, fell two spots in the Global 500 rankings this year as revenue took an 11% hit and profits fell by more than a third to $15.8 billion. Weaker oil and gas prices were to blame. And so far 2020 has been even more eventful: global lockdown measures dropped energy demand to historic lows, triggering spending cuts and a write-down of assets that could reach $22 billion. Looking forward, Shell in April said it would target net-zero emissions by 2050—the largest energy company in the world to do so.

This year's Fortune Global 500 generated $27.7 trillion in revenues and $1.5 trillion in profits.

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This year's Fortune Global 500 generated $27.6 trillion in revenues and $1.5 trillion in profits.

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The world's 500 largest companies generated $31.2 trillion in revenues and $1.7 trillion in profits in 2014. Together, this year's Fortune Global 500 employ 65 million people worldwide and are represented by 36 countries.

Global business is back. After limping through a worldwide financial crisis and economic slowdown, the 500 largest companies ranked by revenues shattered all sorts of performance records in 2013: They racked up combined revenues of $31.1 trillion, up 2.5% from 2012, and profits soared 27% to nearly $2 trillion. China’s 95 companies (up from 89 last year) posted $5.8 trillion in revenues. The U.S. has four fewer companies on the list than last year but remains (for now) the country leader, with 128 corporations on the list—including No. 1 Wal-Mart Stores—reporting $8.6 trillion in revenues. 

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Shell was founded on April 23, 1907 following the merger of a British and a Dutch company. Since then, it has grown into one of the world’s largest vertically integrated energy companies with operations globally in oil and gas production, refining, fuel stations, energy trading, and chemicals. In recent years, it has expanded into cleaner energy, such as electric vehicle charging and renewable power. Its main long-term focus has been shifting from oil to natural gas. Shell has been based in London since 2022 but still keeps key offices in the Netherlands.

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Welcome to, let's discuss where we discuss some of the hottest topics of the week. I'm Leo Schwartz. I'm joined here by my colleague, Ben Weiss. Uh We spent the better part of the last three weeks at the Sam Bateman free trial. Yeah, I mean, we've pretty much seen the prosecution's entire case. Uh They started with their first witness which was a victim who lost about $100,000 on FTX when it collapsed in November 2022. And since then, they've rolled out a suite of other witnesses to testify against Beman Fried, including the three star witnesses in the case, Gary Wong, then Caroline Ellison and then Masha say, Leo, what do you think has been the biggest bombshell to come out of the trial so far? So as you mentioned, the prosecutors have brought up their three star witnesses who were all members of Sam Bakeman Fried's inner circle. We knew they were going to testify. But I still think seeing them up on the stand basically saying definitively that they committed crimes, they took customer funds for their own purposes and it was the direction of their former friend, Sam Bateman Fried has been pretty stunning. We've seen a lot of very raw emotional moments. I think a climax of the trial has been Caroline Ellison crying on the stand discussing the crimes that she did commit. Nasha Singh described the actions as evil. It's been pretty shocking even expecting what was going to happen. Ben, I'm curious, how do you view the impact of the trial on the crypto industry the way I was thinking about this trial is, it's essentially a look under the hood of how the crypto industry pretty much interacted with each other. Um, from 2020 to 2022 there's been looks into these crazy lending practices between these big firms and trading firms. Um And there's also been pretty explicit declarations that um, some tokens like, you know, F TT or B and we are essentially equity like instruments. Um So, and I think there's probably more to come. So the prosecution has pretty much presented its entire case with its three star witnesses. Next, we'll see the defense come up. They're expected to take around a week, a week and a half. The big lingering question is whether Sam Bakeman Fried himself is going to testify. That's still unknown. We should know that by end of October early November and then the case should wrap up. That's all the time we have for today. This has been, let's discuss. Please go to fortune dot com for more

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Nike Athlete, Olympic medalist and 10-time World Champion; Founder, Pocket Rocket Foundation 
A’ja Wilson, Nike Athlete, WNBA Player; Olympic gold medalist; MVP of the 2022 WNBA Champs, Las Vegas Aces 
Moderator: Beth Kowitt, FORTUNE

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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Nike Athlete; Founder, Pocket Rocket Foundation 
A’ja Wilson, Nike Athlete, WNBA Player; MVP of the 2022 WNBA Champs, Las Vegas Aces 

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Nike Athlete, Olympic medalist; Founder, Pocket Rocket Foundation 
A’ja Wilson, Nike Athlete, WNBA Player; Olympic gold medalist; MVP of the 2022 WNBA Champs, Las Vegas Aces 
Moderator: Beth Kowitt, FORTUNE

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Nike Athlete, Olympic medalist; Founder, Pocket Rocket Foundation 
A’ja Wilson, Nike Athlete, WNBA Player; Olympic gold medalist; MVP of the 2022 WNBA Champs, Las Vegas Aces 

So I've noticed a lot of you all taking advantage of the beautiful Laguna Niguel weather working out during the summit. It's not surprising that we have so many athletes among us uh sports have so much value beyond keeping all of us active and entertained. Many ceo has participated in sports as they built their way to big careers. There are a lot of transfer liberal attributes, being a team player, a leader, a goal oriented person. And in just a moment we're gonna meet two women who have strong insights into all of this and are here to share. Shelly ann fraser Pryce is an olympic track and field gold medalist and 10 time world champion and she happens to be one of the fastest women on one of the fastest people on earth. And Asia Wilson is a W. N. B. A player with the las Vegas aces M. V. P. Of the 2022 W. N. B. A. Champs and olympic gold medalist and they're both Nike athletes to their joining us to talk about the impact of sports also playing field, how sports can help us learn and uncover revelations about ourselves and maybe we'll get some tips on best ways to up our personal and professional games. But first take a look at this. Okay I just want to start by taking a quick poll of the room who here played sports in college. Okay so this does not surprise me um you know and I want to ask you to experts, why do you think that is? Why you know, why did the women so many women put their their hands up? What role do sports play in leadership and maybe a shell and you can start there um for me, I think um sports was really the vehicle for me to move from the environment that I was in back home to kind of have an education and come out of my circumstances and it definitely empowered me to kind of create a platform for the girls in my community to understand that sports helped to create, like, you know, give you like a sense of belonging to like a collective group and if you're able to do that, then you know who you are as an individual and being able to be in an environment where other girls share similar, you know, traits to who I am as a person and I want to become, it kind of helped me to transition from that and become an advocate in my community. Yeah, I mean, it's the same for me, I think sports did something for me, It helped build relationships. I think it opened up a door for me that I've never probably would have ever experienced if I didn't play sports, it allowed me to be that friend that allowed me to share, like it was just one of those things where I've met so many people and connected with so many people around the world and I think that's how sports helped me and it gave me no choice but to kind of be that leader. It put me out there and was like, all right, it's you and 10 other girls figure it out and that's hard in the locker room because some people coming in sassy and it's like, it made me some people, it's not their day, the boyfriend and text them back and it's like, all right, but we have to we have to win ladies, like we gotta bring it in. So I think that's kind of what helped me in leadership and finding myself and understanding that I have a voice and like I was saying like building that platform for the next and also you're finding yourself. I think that's the biggest thing I found myself through sports. So I wanna, I wanna stand that for a second because you two are at very different stages of your career. You know, Asia U. 26 you've talked before about how you are still developing as both a person and a player. How is that how you doing that in the spotlight like this? I have no idea. Honestly, it's the way my life goes. You know, like you I think the biggest thing is understanding that it's never too late to win from within. I think that is so key. Like, you find yourself, you know those long nights when you're thinking and it's just like what's going on, where am I in my life and it's okay to be at that standpoint and I think for me that's my biggest thing was the bubble. When the pandemic hit it allowed me to have no choice but to get in tune with myself. And I think that's the biggest thing and I honestly would say I didn't find out who I was until I was 24 25 years old. So I think we get so caught up in having Be that phenomenal woman is figuring it out right on the spot when it doesn't necessarily have to be that way. So I'm still figuring it out. I'm loving it, it's my life, but it's definitely, it's been a journey. I want to expect that in a couple minutes, but you know, for usually and you are 36, sorry 26, sorry out of here in 2017, you had your son Zion, but since giving birth you have run the nine fastest times of your career. Um First of all, how? Uh Yes, yeah, I have a daughter, I'm not running out of time. How are you? How do you do it? Like how has this changed you? Um you know, having my son has definitely changed me a lot. I remember the first time when I found out I was pregnant, I was like in a slum, I just finished, It's the truth. I was like, this is not about to be it, I was gonna be 30 I was going to be turning 30 to december of that year and I remember being a female in sports you always hear, Oh, it's not the right time to have a child. You have to wait until you retire or when you get to 30 they almost, you know, want to tell you it's time to wrap it up, you know, it's over. And I remember have, you know, being there and being in the moment, I was just nervous like, what's gonna happen and having my son was the best thing that has ever happened to me because it made me tough and I think it made me more, you know, a stronger athlete and a woman and I was able to balance and juggle being a mom and a nasty because I knew I had more to give and I wanted to unleash that paul and I knew the only way I had to do that was that I had to believe that it's possible. So the moment I accepted what was happening, like, yes, I'm gonna be a mom and it's okay, I'm gonna come back. That was it. There was no change in my mind. There was, I understood it was going to be difficult, I knew it was gonna require more of me. I had to evolve as a woman as an athlete and know that I belong in that space and age was not gonna stop me, you know, uh the opinions of others, we're not gonna deter me from the goals that I have because I knew I had more to give and being able to accomplish the things that I have after having my son is remarkable and I hope it adds Voice to the other women who are thinking that their dreams are somehow dead because oh, I'm turning 30, I'm gonna have a baby. But I'm hoping that they too will find inspiration in knowing that new beginnings is always a good thing. It's an opportunity to evolve. It's an opportunity to grow, it's an opportunity to be more than you thought would be possible. So, I mean, I think it's also worth acknowledging your career has been a decade and a half long, and you are very long and you are at peak performance. Yeah, there are some lessons here in longevity, How have you done that? You know, honestly, it requires work. And I think this year out of all the years that have been competing, I finally found the confidence to be who I am, you know, and I think for a lot of us age is something that we all have to go through. We'll have to, we have think that's just the reality and I think for a lot of us, we are afraid of going through that process that we limit who we are as, as a woman, you know, and it's somehow It somehow takes away from us where we think, Okay, because we're turning 30, we need to just tone things down with were stop dream where to stop thinking that things are possible. But I think at, you know at this stage of my career I feel young, I feel fit. I think I deserve the moment, the moment is mine to see if it's a new beginning. I'm equipped, I'm ready, I'm hungry and I want yeah. Yeah. I love that. You want it, I want it, you want it, I love it, I love it. Um I want, you know, I want to go back to something you alluded to which is kind of finding yourself when you were in the bubble, which is the W. N. B. A bubble for those who don't know. Um you've both spoken and written very openly about battling depression after an M. V. P. Season. What made you decide to be so open about that. Um I think it's just key to show people that I'm human. I think they get so caught up in the accolades, they get so caught up in seeing us in uniform that they're like oh my God you're a machine, There's nothing wrong with you. Like you have the perfect life, you get paid to sweat, You get like you get all these good things and it's like but I still hurt, I still feel feelings, I still go through things and I think it was just so key for for me, especially in that moment and it helped me to be vulnerable and to show that side and say, hey, it's not easy every day for me. I'm glad that I can make it look easy, but it's not easy. Like no one sees the hard work, the long nights, the stressful nights of where you just want to pull your hair out. No one sees that, and it's like, but those moments are real and you have to live those moments and take them in. And I think I was just, it was a moment for me to be like, okay, this is me, this is who I am, and I'm loving who I'm becoming, because I can show the world that it's different paths of life. We're all on this different journey, but we're gonna all get to the top in our own speed at our own race. So, at the end of the day, you just gotta be real and be true with yourself. And that was a key moment for me. Thank you. I want to see if the audience has any questions for you here, we have one in the front, you can wait for the mic intelligence making its way. Well, hi, I'm Lorraine Harrington catalysts and I know an issue for women in sports is pay equity, and especially been with W N. B A. Can you talk a little bit about the challenges and opportunities in that? Yes. Oh gosh, we could be here all day. We uh no, but it's just something that is, it's always a crazy, not even a crazy, it's a sensitive topic because it's like you do so much. You work so hard and it's just like, what can we do to make it just my thing is make it fair. That's all I'm asking is fair. If we put in the equal amount of work, we're doing the equal minded things cool. But I'm just saying make it fair to us as a league and it's really, really hard because of economical reasons and things like that. But it's, it's tough. But at the same time, I think for me, I'm understanding that change doesn't happen overnight and we have to continue to use our platform to voice these things. I think it's so key that we don't be, we're not, we don't have those seats at the tables to say, hey, these women need to get paid more because they work their tails off and they deserve it. I think that's the thing. I think we get so caught up in society of being like, well the woman is always a step below, but it's like why I'm, I'm just as equally as qualified as anyone else. And it's a topic where it's just like, well, what can we do? Everyone's asking, what can we do, what can we do? Just respect and understanding that we need seats in their bodies in those, we need bodies in those seats. We need people to see us. I'm a firm believer and see if you can see her, you can be her and it's really, really hard to be seen if they're constantly sweeping under the rug. And that's so key. It's just like just being seen. I think that's the biggest thing is just putting stuff out there. So many people coming to me and they're like, why can't we find your Jersey and airport? Why can't you? And it's, it's those little things that we have to go back into these companies and saying, just put us out there, put us out there and see what happens and I guarantee you will not disappoint you. And I think that's just very, very key when it comes to just that pay equity situations, just like, let us be seen, Let us be hurt were more were deeper than just athletes were foundation owners were business women, we're mothers, we're sisters. Like, put us out there. And yeah, that's about all I can say that before. I got do we have another question in the audience right over there and if you could wait for the mic and tell us who you are. Hi, I'm Rose with Verizon. First of all, you ladies are fabulous. We are a little jealous that you talked about aging. We're like, okay, but let me ask you this. So how do you think about what your next is because you won't be athletes forever. But you have these incredible skills and discipline and intelligence and we're gonna get you out there, How do you think about your next um so, you know, for me, um it's all about impact, you know, and I'm from the Caribbean, I'm from Jamaica and it's a small country where there are so many girls are people in my community that are on the privilege and I want to be able to be the change for them and through my pocket Rocket Foundation that I started a couple of years ago because of a woman, I should say that your nickname? Yes, yeah, There's a woman I met when I was 15 years old in New York at the Penn Relays and for some crazy reason, not knowing who I was or who I was gonna become, she invested in my life and that changed the course of my life forever. So being able to have that foundation in Kingston where we offer student athletes the opportunity to create change and to have a balance of having their sport and their classroom education and being able to peer both together and create an avenue to escape the current circumstances is where it's at. You know, that's the impact I want in my community to, to have girls in Jamaica feel like out of all the girls in the world we belong, we're not just Caribbean women were not just Jamaican women, but we can have an impact in the world and being able to have that Foundation where we have 55 student athletes that have passed through the foundation, giving them the opportunity to not think about where their meal is coming from, where their uniform is coming from, where the books are coming from, but just focus on the classroom, focused on your sport, being able to create for yourself an opportunity to excel because for me, I never had that opportunity when I was younger, when I was like 10, 11, 12 until I met Gene, you know, and that changed the course of history because otherwise I would have continued a cycle that was in my community, I would probably be home, probably have a couple of kids just running around, but you know, I'm glad that she saw something more and being able to have that initiative in my community, it's where it's at for me and creating more space for women like me in my community. How about you? I think the biggest thing for me is just planting seeds for the next generation, like I'm still young but um I think the biggest thing is understanding that it doesn't stop here, like like surely understand just seeing that potential, we all have those type of people in our lives, that's all potential us before we could see ourselves. And for me that's what's next is how can I plant seeds for the next generation to be like, I want to be the next asia, I want to be the next like what can I do in my community to help them understand that you can shatter any glass ceiling that is in front of you, You can reach any goal. I was a young girl, I don't wanna play basketball, hated sweating, hated sweating. Oh my God, it's disgusting. But here I am sweating for a living. Like it's just one of those things like I just want to put that out there to the young girls like you don't have to have it all at once. Like just continue to plant seeds and what you want in your journey. Like that's my next, that's my why to keep grinding and keep just shattering anything that's in front of me. I love that, shattering everything that's in front of Asia. Thank you so much for being with you.

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