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What inspires you from WFSU public media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. I'm Susan Gage. I'm the executive director with the Early Learning Coalition of Northwest Florida. Young children are the start of it all. They are, I think, our greatest resource. And I think that if we would invest early in the lives, the learning, the environment, the experiences of young children and their families that we would eliminate a lot of the problems that we're having to deal with now, that we would have a stronger citizenry. We would be so many more light years ahead of where we are currently right now. We have had a lot of challenges in our area. And we persevere, but I think taking one day at a time and remembering and keeping in front of us, the potential for what can be, not letting the current circumstances kind of define us, but figuring out how we can make something out of the situation that we've been given. You can always look at a situation in a positive light or a negative light. And the people that I work with consistently choose to work and look at it in a positive light. And I think that's how we stay engaged and we stay motivated and we stay inspired and we stay sane. Remember, we're doing it for the children. And the children are always in the forefront of our minds. And that's what we're working for. What inspires a motivator is trying to learn why and how and what everything is is going on around me. It's a beautiful childlike skill. Young children, they're just trying to figure out how everything is going and how the world works. And at some point in time, as adults, we kind of stop doing that some of us. We assume we know everything or we assume that we can't learn anything or we don't need to know everything. And I think if we could all be more childlike in that respect, maybe things would be a little bit different. I'm Susan Gage. I'm the Executive Director with the Early Learning Coalition of Northwest Florida. You're listening to Voices That Inspire.