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Happy International Women's Day. I'm Joshua, and this is a special bonus episode of. Oh, that's a fact. Today, the world is wrapped in purple, talking about give to gain, which is the beautiful 2026 campaign theme. But here's what I want you to sit with for the next few minutes. This day didn't start as a celebration. It started as a strike. That's not a footnote. That's the whole story. Fact number one, we celebrate on March 8th because a group of Russian women textile workers in 1917, they had had it. World War I, food shortages, a government that wasn't listening. So they walked off the job and flooded the streets of Petrograd, demanding two things. Bread and peace. That protest spread factory by factory, block by block. Soldiers were ordered to suppress it. They refused. They marched with the women instead. Seven days later, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne. 300 years of Romanov rule. Boop, over, done. And the provisional government that replaced him. One of the very first things they did was to grant women the right to vote. It wasn't just a march. It was the match that lit a revolution. And it started with women who were hungry, exhausted, and done waiting. Fact 2. Here comes the twist. In 2026, the conversation has shifted to something powerful. Recognizing that managing a home and is leadership real, quantifiable, economically significant leadership. Here's the mathematics. Women globally perform 12.5 billion. That's 12.5 billion hours of unpaid work every single day. Budgeting, child care, crisis response, economic elder care, scheduling. The invisible architecture that holds everything else up. According to a 2020 Oxfam study, if you paid for that labor, even at minimum wage, it would be worth $10.8 trillion a year. That's more than three times the size of the entire global tech industry. Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, all combined. Women aren't helping out at home. They're powering a shadow economy that the rest of the world relies on and has relied on for a very long time without ever writing a check for it. So here's your takeaway for today. Being a woman in 2026 isn't just about breaking glass ceilings. It's about finally, finally redefining what we call work and what we call leadership. Whether you're running a boardroom or a household or maybe both, because most women are doing exactly that. The basic skills are the same, and they always mattered. Before I go, I want to mention something else to my wife. Marcy, you are the living, breathing proof of everything I just described. The work you do by lifting the careers of your private clients and the students at your university, and, of course, our daughter. All that work, the work that's rarely ever really named, rarely credited, and it's never fully seen. It's not invisible to me. Extraordinary. You are extraordinary. Happy International Women's Day, Marcy. I'm Joshua. Thanks for joining me for. Oh, that's a fact. Bonus episode. Learn as much as you can about as much as you can, and we'll talk again soon.