"When I was four years old, I asked my father for an Easy-Bake oven so I could make tiny cookies just like those kids on television. Instead, my father handed me a recipe for Toll House cookies and a milk crate-turned-stepstool, so that I could reach the sticky dials on the back of our wonky, uncalibrated, 1960’s-era mustard-yellow oven. He was, I’m certain, unaware that he was launching me on a seventeen-year professional career that not only took me from Cross Village, Michigan to Flint, Michigan by way of Austin, Texas, but that also played a huge role in shaping me into who I am today."

In this amazing read, Groeneveld shares with us her personal story of how one small little gift can change your world forever. Walk with Groeneveld and listen to the amazing story she has to tell, and how the "little things really count."

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