After graduating from school and obtaining my CVT (I started my career in Colorado), I worked in the anesthesia department of a specialty practice. To this day, I can distinctly remember all of us gathering for a huge celebration held in honor of a colleague who had just earned her VTS in emergency and critical care (ECC). While she was already an incredible leader, teacher, and mentor, the accomplishment of her earning her VTS seemed to solidify what we all already knew: she was, after all, revered for her breadth and wealth of knowledge. We all looked up to her, and she was my inspiration. I knew, even at that early stage in my career, that I wanted to become the type of teacher/leader/mentor that she was.