Each month, Texas State University President Dr. Kelly Damphousse sits down with faculty members, staff, students, alumni, and community members for a conversation about all things TXST — the past, the present, and the bright future of the university.
Part of the TXST Podcast Network: https://www.txst.edu/podcast-network.html
Nathali Weisman (00:00):
So then I move out to LA and I'm living in Los Angeles and I'm taking these leadership classes. And then our group had gone and visited a numerologist and past life person in Del Mar.
Kelly Damphousse (00:16):
I was not ready for this story, but now I'm fascinated.
Nathali Weisman (00:19):
Well, now we're here.
Kelly Damphousse (00:20):
Yeah.
(00:25):
I'm so excited today to have my friend Nathali Weisman to join us to talk about all the things that she's involved with at Texas State. But Nathali, first off, welcome to the podcast.
Nathali Weisman (00:36):
Thank you, Kelly. I'm so excited to be here.
Kelly Damphousse (00:38):
Well, you're-
Nathali Weisman (00:38):
What an honor.
Kelly Damphousse (00:39):
And thank you for going all gold today. I love the look.
Nathali Weisman (00:42):
When I saw the gold suit, I was like, "I'm getting this. This is my Texas State suit."
Kelly Damphousse (00:48):
If you're listening on audio, you're missing something here. I know some people watch this on video, but it's awesome. And Beth is the same way, she'll be walking down a street and looking a window and see something maroon or gold, and she says, "I got to go have that."
Nathali Weisman (00:59):
I have to have it because it doesn't come up often.
Kelly Damphousse (01:01):
That's right.
Nathali Weisman (01:01):
Yeah. And I thought, "This is perfect."
Kelly Damphousse (01:03):
Well, and I do like the off-color. Our secondary color is gold. But there's so much maroon out there in Texas anyways, when you wear the gold, people go, "Oh. Oh, that must be Texas State." So yeah, very good. And you actually have your bowl championship-
Nathali Weisman (01:18):
Yes.
Kelly Damphousse (01:18):
... medallion on.
Nathali Weisman (01:19):
I wear it proudly. I'm so proud of our Bobcats.
Kelly Damphousse (01:22):
Well, it's so fun because we gave donors a bowl ring that really helped the team get... People who believed in the football team before they deserved being believed in. We had a little ceremony, but the women we give a medallion to instead because the rings are kind of audacious and heavy, and even the guys don't wear them, they're too big. But Beth got in a medallion too, and she loves it. She wears it more than I wear my ring.
Nathali Weisman (01:45):
Likewise with Johnny. I wear this as much as I can, and I absolutely love it. And I-
Kelly Damphousse (01:49):
And he has his in a box somewhere.
Nathali Weisman (01:51):
Yes.
Kelly Damphousse (01:51):
Yeah?
Nathali Weisman (01:51):
But he wears it to the games and he wears it to the Texas State stuff very proudly. But I was not expecting to get anything as a wife. Obviously, I'm a supporter and I'm a lover of the Bobcats, but when you presented us with this medallion pendant, I was like, "Oh my God, this is so special."
Kelly Damphousse (02:14):
Well, it is a cool opportunity to get a piece of history because that was our first bowl game, and then we won the game, which is also exciting. Some people get a ring for going to a bowl game, but we prefer to give it if you win the bowl game. And you always see about Super Bowl rings and World Series rings, but it's really kind of special to have a piece of history that you can wear around and remind people, "Hey, what is that?" "Oh, that's from when we won the bowl game." Yeah.
Nathali Weisman (02:42):
Exactly.
Kelly Damphousse (02:43):
Yeah, the first bowl game. Yeah.
Nathali Weisman (02:43):
The first bowl game.
Kelly Damphousse (02:44):
Yeah, that's exciting.
Nathali Weisman (02:45):
Which is so wonderful.
Kelly Damphousse (02:48):
Well, you and Johnny have been such great friends of the university and especially the athletics program, but your history predates that. You are a former student and a student-athlete here. Let's go back to the very beginning, a little, Nathali. First off, your name is spelled with a T-H, which is kind of unusual. Let's go all the way back to that, what were-
Nathali Weisman (03:09):
That story?
Kelly Damphousse (03:10):
Yeah. Yeah, I want to hear that story about the spelling of Nathali.
Nathali Weisman (03:15):
Well, I changed that in my 20s.
Kelly Damphousse (03:16):
Oh, you changed it?
Nathali Weisman (03:18):
I changed it.
Kelly Damphousse (03:18):
I did not know that.
Nathali Weisman (03:19):
Yeah. Yeah.
Kelly Damphousse (03:19):
That's news.
Nathali Weisman (03:20):
Yeah.
Kelly Damphousse (03:21):
Breaking news here.
Nathali Weisman (03:21):
That is breaking news. Sometimes people ask about that and sometimes they don't. It's pronounced Nathali, so I didn't think much of it. And I'm a little bit out of the box.
Kelly Damphousse (03:36):
No?
Nathali Weisman (03:37):
I know. I grew up here, I grew up in Round Rock. I went to Montessori school. I'm a crunchy Austin hippie being influenced by that group. Totally into health and well-being and all that kind of stuff, and spiritual God and all that. So just laying the foundation for this story.
Kelly Damphousse (04:00):
Sure.
Nathali Weisman (04:01):
So then I move out to LA and I'm living in Los Angeles, and I'm taking these leadership classes. And then our group had gone and visited a numerologist and past life person in Del Mar.
Kelly Damphousse (04:18):
I was not ready for this story, but now I'm fascinated.
Nathali Weisman (04:20):
Well, now we're here. So we're in Del Mar, she's in Del Mar, California. This is pre-Google, by the way. So this is not like you could Google somebody and all this stuff. So she does this with very famous people, and they had gone and they were like, "Nathali, you have to do this. It's so amazing." And I was like, "Oh, OK." She wasn't expensive.
(04:41):
So I show up, I book my appointment, it's way in advance. And she says... She does the past life readings, which is super fascinating. To whatever degree you want to believe it, but it seemed to hit home for some of the things that she had said, which she would never have known these things about me.
(05:07):
So she had set the hook for the next comment. So we're at the end, I said, "Is there anything else?" She's like, "Well, I ran the numbers on your name and there's a lot going on." And I was like, "What do you mean?" And she said, "Well, Nathali by itself has a lot of obstacles, and Parker by itself has a lot of obstacles. Then you combine them and you have compounded obstacles."
Kelly Damphousse (05:34):
Wow.
Nathali Weisman (05:35):
Yeah. Like, "OK. Well, I really like my name." She's like, "You can change your name." And I'm like, "I'm not changing my name, I really... Nathali Parker is a good name. It's a strong name. But I'm open to mitigating obstacles." I said, "I'm open to mitigating obstacles. What are the options?" And she said, "We could respell your first name."
Kelly Damphousse (06:05):
Did you sit down right then and do it? Or-
Nathali Weisman (06:07):
No. She said, "Why don't you think of some variations and send them to me and I'll think of variations and I'll run the numbers and we'll see." And she came up with this, and I actually really, really liked it. So-
Kelly Damphousse (06:22):
It's probably you're the only person in the world with that name.
Nathali Weisman (06:25):
Yeah.
Kelly Damphousse (06:25):
Yeah.
Nathali Weisman (06:26):
So then people go, "Well, have the obstacles been mitigated?" I'm like, "I don't know."
Kelly Damphousse (06:31):
But think how bad things could have been if you hadn't done it.
Nathali Weisman (06:32):
Maybe.
Kelly Damphousse (06:33):
Right? You never know.
Nathali Weisman (06:33):
Yeah, you don't know.
Kelly Damphousse (06:34):
That's so funny. Lyndon Baines Johnson's daughter Luci changed her name and it's fascinating. And someday I'll get her to tell me that story on the podcast. But her name was L-U-C-Y, and she changed it to L-U-C-I. And there's a really interesting reason behind that, but I've never... I've thought about, maybe I should... Now you've got me thinking I should add an H to my name or something like that. K-H-E-L-Y or something like that. The H is silent.
Nathali Weisman (06:57):
Oh, the H is silent.
Kelly Damphousse (06:59):
Yeah, that's funny. But let's go back now. Growing up in this area, Round Rock. Round Rock High school?
Nathali Weisman (07:06):
Round Rock High School. Proud Dragon.
Kelly Damphousse (07:08):
Yeah? There you go. And then-
Nathali Weisman (07:09):
More maroon.
Kelly Damphousse (07:10):
Yeah. Oh, another maroon school.
Nathali Weisman (07:12):
Yeah.
Kelly Damphousse (07:12):
Yeah. So then how do you end up coming to Texas State?
Nathali Weisman (07:15):
Well, I had applied to other universities and also I played four sports in high school. And I-
Kelly Damphousse (07:24):
What were they? Basketball-
Nathali Weisman (07:25):
Volleyball, basketball, soccer, and track.
Kelly Damphousse (07:27):
And track.
Nathali Weisman (07:28):
And I had left after my sophomore year track and field and got into soccer. I was going to try to do it both in my junior year and I just-
Kelly Damphousse (07:39):
That's a lot of running.
Nathali Weisman (07:40):
It's a lot of running, exactly. It was a lot of running, especially after basketball, a lot of running. I came from an athletic family. My father was a football coach at University of Texas. He got into commercial real estate in the '80s. We went broke. And it was at the time where it was like you really need scholarships, because I had to start working to pay for things and stuff like that. So I said, "I'm going to..." My goal was, and always, of course, it's a dream when you're an athlete to be a college athlete and to get scholarships and stuff.
(08:19):
So I had gotten offers from smaller schools, but I wanted to go to a bigger school and I thought, "I can walk on." And I had gotten accepted into Texas Tech, where my brother was, and he had walked on and played football. And my brother called... He's one year older than me, and so I said, "Mike, I think I'm going to go to Tech." And he's like, "If you come here, I'm leaving."
Kelly Damphousse (08:44):
I love you.
Nathali Weisman (08:45):
True story. "I love you, but I don't want to deal with my little sister here. And I dealt with that in high school."
Kelly Damphousse (08:51):
That's funny.
Nathali Weisman (08:52):
"I don't want to have to feel like I have-"
Kelly Damphousse (08:53):
Were you superstar in high school, like everyone knew who Nathali was?
Nathali Weisman (08:56):
Yeah, I was voted [inaudible 00:08:58]-
Kelly Damphousse (08:58):
Most popular.
Nathali Weisman (08:58):
Yeah.
Kelly Damphousse (08:59):
Yeah.
Nathali Weisman (09:00):
Friendliest. I think most athletic and-
Kelly Damphousse (09:03):
That's shocking. Yeah, no.
Nathali Weisman (09:04):
... I sat on president's councils and I was very involved. I'm always involved. I always have something to say.
Kelly Damphousse (09:11):
So basically the same thing you are now, so yeah.
Nathali Weisman (09:13):
Nothing's changed.
Kelly Damphousse (09:14):
Yeah. Yeah.
Nathali Weisman (09:14):
Nothing's changed.
Kelly Damphousse (09:15):
So then you couldn't go to Tech.
Nathali Weisman (09:17):
Yeah. So I said, "Oh, I'm going to go to Texas State and I'm going to walk on the volleyball team and see if I make it." So I tried out and I made the team.
Kelly Damphousse (09:24):
Who's your coach then?
Nathali Weisman (09:25):
The great Karen Chisum.
Kelly Damphousse (09:27):
Yeah?
Nathali Weisman (09:27):
Coach Chisum.
Kelly Damphousse (09:28):
Hall of Fame [inaudible 00:09:29].
Nathali Weisman (09:29):
Hall of Fame.
Kelly Damphousse (09:29):
Yeah. Excellent.
Nathali Weisman (09:30):
So I made the team, but really, what I should have done in high school is be a setter because I'm too short to be at the net.
Kelly Damphousse (09:37):
An outside hitter. Yeah.
Nathali Weisman (09:38):
And I'm too tall to be in the back. So I made the team, but I'm not going to be something great. And then I tried out for the team at the end of my freshman year to go into my sophomore year. I made the team. They offered me a position, but I said, "No." And I'm not going to get scholarships, so I said, "I'm going to just be a student." And then I thought, "I'm going to go," because like I said before, I'm into wellness and well-being and-
Kelly Damphousse (10:04):
You're already running anyways, right?
Nathali Weisman (10:06):
Yeah, I'm running.
Kelly Damphousse (10:06):
You're getting up the morning, working out.
Nathali Weisman (10:07):
I want to get healthy and all that kind of stuff. So I got accepted into Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas.
Kelly Damphousse (10:17):
Wow.
Nathali Weisman (10:18):
And I was going to leave my sophomore year, at the end of my sophomore year and go to there. And then at the middle of my sophomore year, I was taking a PE class, and the PE professor was the track coach.
Kelly Damphousse (10:29):
And here we go.
Nathali Weisman (10:30):
And he said, "I need a multi-event person and you can run and jump and you're coordinated, and I need somebody, will you come out and try out for the team?" I said, "Sure. OK." I need somebody yelling at me to work out anyway, which I didn't think that was the case, but I realized that was the case. And I thought, "This does not happen to everybody and all the time, so this is my shot." So I made the team and I had six weeks until the conference meet, but we had two days before my first heptathlon meet.
Kelly Damphousse (11:09):
Wow.
Nathali Weisman (11:10):
So I was recruited to run or participate in the heptathlon, which is seven events. So I got a 30-minute instruction for each event.
Kelly Damphousse (11:20):
It's not just running, right?
Nathali Weisman (11:21):
No, it's-
Kelly Damphousse (11:21):
Yeah, it's disc.
Nathali Weisman (11:22):
So it's the 100-meter hurdles, the high jump, long jump, shot put, 200 meters, 800 meters and javelin.
Kelly Damphousse (11:29):
Yeah. And they don't do javelin in high school.
Nathali Weisman (11:32):
No.
Kelly Damphousse (11:32):
Right? Because it's too dangerous.
Nathali Weisman (11:32):
I never even seen a javelin in person. I never touched a javelin. I saw it on a movie.
Kelly Damphousse (11:38):
That's funny.
Nathali Weisman (11:38):
Yeah. So javelin is on the first day of the heptathlon events. And I go in, I have a half approach, and I out throw everybody by a lot.
Kelly Damphousse (11:51):
Wow.
Nathali Weisman (11:52):
And my coach is like, "Wow, what? Wait, wait. Where did this come from?" Because all I did was I had never thrown it openly. He just showed me warm-ups and kind of some technique and a half approach, not expecting much. And he's like, "Where did this come from?"
Kelly Damphousse (12:10):
Natural athlete.
Nathali Weisman (12:12):
Well, I love humor. And I said, "Oh, I'm channeling my ancestors," because I'm Native American. So he said, "We're putting you in the open division of the javelin with real throwers, people that actually practice this and know what they're doing." So I said, "OK, great." So then I got second place.
Kelly Damphousse (12:38):
First meet ever?
Nathali Weisman (12:38):
First meet ever.
Kelly Damphousse (12:39):
Wow.
Nathali Weisman (12:40):
So then I got offered a scholarship by the end of that and I said, "Yeah, I'll stay."
Kelly Damphousse (12:45):
I think that's a story there is that you never know how your life's going to turn out.
Nathali Weisman (12:52):
No.
Kelly Damphousse (12:52):
And something like taking a class, you decided to take a class. That instructor happens to be a track coach who says, "You know, I need someone to do this thing." And then you throw a javelin and go, "Oh, you're pretty good." And next thing you know, you're a scholarship student and you're staying.
Nathali Weisman (13:05):
I know.
Kelly Damphousse (13:05):
And then you get [inaudible 00:13:06].
Nathali Weisman (13:05):
Right.
Kelly Damphousse (13:06):
So what degree did you earn?
Nathali Weisman (13:08):
Exercise sports science, a bachelor of science.
Kelly Damphousse (13:10):
And you're still doing that for a living now.
Nathali Weisman (13:12):
In kinesiology.
Kelly Damphousse (13:12):
No, you're not doing that for a living.
Nathali Weisman (13:14):
No. No.
Kelly Damphousse (13:14):
So let's fast-forward now, you own a construction company or a construction supply-
Nathali Weisman (13:17):
A construction supply company.
Kelly Damphousse (13:19):
Supply company. So tell us how you end up getting there.
Nathali Weisman (13:22):
Oh my god. You don't have time on this podcast-
Kelly Damphousse (13:24):
No, we don't have time for it [inaudible 00:13:26].
Nathali Weisman (13:26):
... but I will give you the CliffNotes.
Kelly Damphousse (13:26):
The mini version. Yeah.
Nathali Weisman (13:27):
I don't have a degree in construction. I didn't even think about construction. I actually moved back to Austin after I graduate, not really knowing what I'm going to do. I get a job at Dell. I'm not happy there. I kind of was like, "What does the world have to offer?" And I contacted this woman that I knew and I met at this health spa resort in Bastrop that did, I learned how to do wheatgrass juicing, and I used to grow wheatgrass in my college house here my senior year.
Kelly Damphousse (14:01):
Wow.
Nathali Weisman (14:02):
And this is not-
Kelly Damphousse (14:02):
I'm learning a lot of things about you, Nathali, that I didn't know about.
Nathali Weisman (14:05):
So anyway, I meet this woman from New York City and she is the president of an Italian investment bank in New York on 52nd and 5th Avenue. And I contact her to just go see New York and if I can stay at her apartment. And she's like, "I have a job for you that I need somebody to manage, and I really don't have the budget to hire somebody who knows what they're doing, but I think you can do it." I'm-
Kelly Damphousse (14:32):
You're so underqualified, I can afford to hire you.
Nathali Weisman (14:34):
Yeah, exactly.
Kelly Damphousse (14:34):
And I know you can figure it out, right?
Nathali Weisman (14:37):
I spent two weeks with you in this juicing cleanse, I think you could figure it out. And I said, "OK, I'll do that."
Kelly Damphousse (14:44):
And that's the beginning.
Nathali Weisman (14:44):
And it was for a construction manager to run and do the buildout of their headquarters in the United States on 52nd and 5th Avenue.
Kelly Damphousse (14:56):
Unbelievable.
Nathali Weisman (14:56):
I never even visited New York. I'm from small town-
Kelly Damphousse (15:00):
Little girl from Round Rock is now up there.
Nathali Weisman (15:02):
Round Rock was 10,000 people. It had one stop light when we moved in.
Kelly Damphousse (15:06):
And now you're on 56th Street in New York City.
Nathali Weisman (15:08):
I'm on 52nd and 5th Avenue.
Kelly Damphousse (15:10):
Wow. And does that-
Nathali Weisman (15:11):
So fast-forward, I moved to LA and I'm in media and I work for Turner Broadcasting in ad sales and all this stuff. And on and on that-
Kelly Damphousse (15:22):
Change your name spelling.
Nathali Weisman (15:22):
Yeah, I changed my name spelling and I was going to change the world with writing reality shows and all this other stuff. And I had started actually a multimedia company called The X's and O's with Nathali Parker, to bring sports and families, I was going to bring men and women and families back together through sports. And then in 2008, 2009, that crashed and burned because of the economy.
Kelly Damphousse (15:47):
Everything did. Yeah.
Nathali Weisman (15:48):
Everything did. So I lost everything. I was totally broke, $50,000 in debt. And I said, "I'm done with Hollywood, I'm done with all of this. I've just got to get my life... I need a job."
(16:00):
And I got a job through friends to be the business development person for an Italian crane company out of Italy and do grassroots business developments. And I started doing that, I have no experience doing it. And I wound up doing, what they tried to do in 20 years, I did in two years working very, very hard, flying all over the country, and I got exposed to the construction industry. And at the same time, Karen, my sister and business partner, was here doing real estate and the market was crashing. And we were like, "Let's do something together. We just need to find the right product because I know we can do this. I know we can do this."
Kelly Damphousse (16:43):
You found a niche, a niche that you probably didn't know existed five years earlier, right?
Nathali Weisman (16:46):
No, I had no idea. But it was great because it wasn't like talking to people about unicorns and fairies. It was like, "This is the product. This is how much it costs, this is what we can do. And I'm going to stand by and I'm going to answer my phone and I'm going to show up." And they were like, "Oh, you're willing to work hard?" I was like, "Yes."
Kelly Damphousse (17:03):
Unbelievable. Just think about where you were in 2008.
Nathali Weisman (17:07):
Broke.
Kelly Damphousse (17:07):
Where you are. Yeah.
Nathali Weisman (17:08):
Yeah.
Kelly Damphousse (17:09):
And then here you are now, several years later, hugely successful and giving back to your alma mater, helping us build the south end zone project in the football stadium, which football wasn't even your sport and you're still helping with that, and helping with other opportunities that come our way that sometimes we need some help with. It's been such a blessing for me and Beth to get to know you and Johnny on a personal level, but to see you just kind of blossom. I loved hearing your story. I didn't know half the things that we learned today, and so it was fun to get this opportunity to hear more about your story.
Nathali Weisman (17:42):
Well, we love Texas State. We believe that we should be at the upper echelon of all the universities.
Kelly Damphousse (17:49):
Absolutely.
Nathali Weisman (17:50):
Not just in Texas, but in the country. And whether you like it or not, football is the reality and it gives you a national voice. And we should have a national voice in that realm because we're in Texas, we're in the heart of Texas. Our campus is stunning and gorgeous.
Kelly Damphousse (18:10):
Unbelievable.
Nathali Weisman (18:11):
Our football program allows us to attract even greater research programs and people. It allows us to have a comradery, an alumni network that is vast and strong. Without it, it doesn't have the strength and potency, and so we need that.
(18:35):
I think you are a key element to understand that and to do what you do. We can't thank you enough for your passion, your heart, your vision. Bringing GJ on, oh my God, what a powerhouse of a coach.
Kelly Damphousse (18:50):
Unbelievable.
Nathali Weisman (18:50):
He's amazing. I love football, I grew up in football. I'm an athlete. I know that Texas State is a sleeping giant. It's like the little train that could, the little engine that could, and now we can.
Kelly Damphousse (19:07):
It's funny, we used to have a saying, Texas State, the rising star of Texas. And I said, "Got to get rid of all those things, we're the risen star."
Nathali Weisman (19:14):
Yes, we're the risen star.
Kelly Damphousse (19:16):
And I said that at a press conference or a presentation I was making, and the Austin paper actually put that, "Texas State has risen."
Nathali Weisman (19:22):
Yay.
Kelly Damphousse (19:23):
And I was like, "It has risen indeed." Yeah, absolutely.
Nathali Weisman (19:25):
That's amazing.
Kelly Damphousse (19:25):
So yeah.
Nathali Weisman (19:25):
So we're-
Kelly Damphousse (19:26):
We're there.
Nathali Weisman (19:27):
... so excited to be a part of it. We love being a part of it. The energy is there. That's another thing that football brings, that there's no other sport that brings it. It brings an energy that permeates through the entire campus that just gets everybody excited. When you hear a drum line, how are you not like-
Kelly Damphousse (19:46):
See the Strutters performing at halftime and-
Nathali Weisman (19:48):
This is it, it's football season. It's just exciting.
Kelly Damphousse (19:54):
It is. So Nathali, we had this thing where when we send a link out to the podcast, we have a little box at the bottom people can click on. It says, "Ask Kelly a question." So we're going to turn you into the interviewer now.
Nathali Weisman (20:05):
Oh, great. Ready?
Kelly Damphousse (20:06):
Yeah, I'm ready.
Nathali Weisman (20:07):
Duh-duh-duh-dud.
Kelly Damphousse (20:07):
Fire away. What do you got?
Nathali Weisman (20:09):
What's the coolest job on campus?
Kelly Damphousse (20:13):
Oh, coolest job. My job's the coolest job on campus.
Nathali Weisman (20:14):
Yeah, I would say that.
Kelly Damphousse (20:15):
I get to do everything and I get to see how the sausage gets made a little bit, get behind the scenes things. I get to see nuts, the bolts. And there's a lot of ways, there's 4,000 college presidents in the country, there's 4,000 different ways of doing it. But what I love about the way I get to do is I get to see everything. So I get to go involved in recruiting students from the very beginning, fundraising to help with scholarships, all the way through graduation at the end. Then all this stuff that happens in the middle with the research that's being done by our faculty, engaging with our alumni, that come back years and years after they've graduated. So I get to see the whole thing, so this is the coolest job.
(20:53):
Now, I will say there's another cool job I wish I had. And we now are the only university in Texas that has a mounted patrol where we have these two horses and we have two officers that get to ride the horses during special events and so on. And if I wasn't president, I'd love to have that job, just riding the horses. Have you seen them?
Nathali Weisman (21:14):
I love them. And I think that was-
Kelly Damphousse (21:16):
I know, you're an outdoorsy person. I'm sure you'd like that.
Nathali Weisman (21:18):
I love horses. I love being part of the land, land is... And open spaces and nature just call to me. And I love horses and trees and all that stuff, so I'm totally with you. I'm totally vibing on those two jobs.
Kelly Damphousse (21:33):
And these horses are huge.
Nathali Weisman (21:35):
Yeah, they're huge.
Kelly Damphousse (21:36):
Yeah, they're giant. They're giants.
Nathali Weisman (21:37):
They're just immense and beautiful creatures.
Kelly Damphousse (21:40):
And when they bring them out, everyone just gravitates toward them, everyone wants to get a picture.
Nathali Weisman (21:44):
Of course.
Kelly Damphousse (21:44):
Some people have never been close to a horse before, so it's kind of cool.
Nathali Weisman (21:48):
And a big horse like that.
Kelly Damphousse (21:49):
Yeah. It's huge.
Nathali Weisman (21:51):
But of course, also the uniforms help.
Kelly Damphousse (21:51):
Yeah, that's-
Nathali Weisman (21:52):
I love their uniforms.
Kelly Damphousse (21:53):
I do too.
Nathali Weisman (21:54):
Yeah.
Kelly Damphousse (21:54):
Thank you so much for coming today, sharing your story. I know we talked a lot about stuff we weren't planning on talking about. I have all these questions that I never even got a chance to ask you.
Nathali Weisman (22:02):
Oh, you can bring me back if you want.
Kelly Damphousse (22:03):
Yeah, I'll bring you back [inaudible 00:22:04].
Nathali Weisman (22:03):
If the audience wants to hear more.
Kelly Damphousse (22:05):
Yeah, they probably will want to hear more. Thank you so much for sharing with us.
Nathali Weisman (22:07):
Thanks, Kelly. Thank you.
Kelly Damphousse (22:09):
And thank you all for joining us. It's been such a great opportunity for us to learn more about what's going on in Nathali's life and why she's so passionate about giving back to her university. Thank you so much for joining us. States Up, everyone.