Throughout my adult life, I've learned that integrity isn't about doing the right thing when people are watching — it's about making the right choice when no one may ever know. Whether I was managing productions, caring for family, or building BusyGal, my decisions have had to be rooted in responsibility, fairness, and truth rather than convenience.

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I turned down the offer of a lifetime — three years running a major international theater company's flagship stage in Shanghai, the exact promotion I'd worked my entire career toward — because my mother had just been diagnosed with leukemia. She was 80, alone, and I wasn't about to let her face that on the other side of the world from me. I value my sleep too much, and I sure as hell wasn't going to get any knowing I'd left her to handle it by herself. That's integrity: the choice you make when the "smart career move" and the right thing to do stop pointing in the same direction, and you already know which one you're going to pick.