Dr. Victoria Veytsman On Knowing Your "Why"

How has your volunteer work enriched your perspective as an entrepreneur? This is probably my favorite question of the night. When you leave with the why versus the how and the who, when things become difficult and forget why you're doing this in the first place, you always go back to the why. So that's always what's kept me going, like, on a personal and professional level. My practice, obviously, we create impact on a micro scale. You know, these amazing transformations with patients. And I always felt that was very myopic, like I was dealing with one patient at a time, and really allowed me the opportunity to create impact on a little bit of a broader scale. And also, I think there's a misconception that doing well and doing good are two separate things. I mean, you could do both. And I think there's a responsibility in entrepreneurs and private businesses to create impact. Our most recent social impact initiative is Education and Digital Inclusion for Women. Because obviously, education is everything. It's the foundation of everything for women, especially developing countries and things like that. And these girls actually want these opportunities. I guess the takeaway is that we just have this responsibility as entrepreneurs with the opportunities that we're given, the resources we have, the networks we have, is to let others have along the way.