Q: What was your first professional job?
A: My current job, working for myself! Running Her Campus is what I am doing straight out of college. During college, I interned at Seventeen magazine and SELF magazine, and I hostessed part-time at a Mexican restaurant, but this is my first real full-time job.
Q: How do you currently define success in your career?
A: In general, success means I love what I’m doing and it makes me happy. That is definitely the case right now with running Her Campus. But specifically, success at Her Campus means rapidly increasing traffic, expansion to many new campus branches, and significant revenues.
Q: What's one of your most tried-and-true secrets for maintaining or re-gaining your sanity?
A: Catching up with my best friend from childhood always makes me feel better. We see each other when we can (she lives in NYC
and I’m in Boston) but we talk daily. Otherwise, some outlet shopping never hurts!
Q: What's one piece of career advice that was given to you when you were an emerging leader that you'd like to pass along to other emerging women leaders?
A: You can do it. Don’t doubt yourself because you're young or inexperienced; believe in yourself and be confident in your abilities. You are capable of anything you set your mind to.
Q: What would your totally decadent day-off look like? (Think fairy-tale)
A: I'd wake up at 10am fully rested. Then I'd eat a delicious breakfast of waffles, fruit, pancakes… etc. But I wouldn't feel too full from it and it would somehow only have a few hundred calories in it! Then I would go for a run and it would be 75 and sunny outside. The rest of the day would consist of laying by a pool, shopping, and going out to dinner with my family and best friends.
