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After a layoff, Michelle Mannix went from corporate marketing to running a...

This interview was originally broadcast on September 25, 2013. Michelle Mannix may not work in Human Resources anymore, but she still has a hand in the hiring process at Ted & Honey, a popular...

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Eric Felix talks higher education access, college admissions, and making time...

This interview was originally broadcast on October 2, 2013. Eric Felix didn’t know he was picking a career when he signed up for an Upward Bound summer enrichment program as a teen; he did it for the...

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Inside the music industry and environmental radio

This interview was originally broadcast on October 2, 2013. When Maxine Margo Rubin started college, she planned on being a teacher. While enrolled at Brooklyn College, she studied political science...

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Acting, auditions, and advice for ‘hotshot’ theater majors

This interview was originally broadcast on October 16, 2013. Abraham Amkpa knows where he caught the acting bug: from his dad. When his family lived in Southampton, England, Abraham’s father, an actor...

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How Osama Aduib’s part-time hotel gig turned into a career: ‘Happenstance’

This interview was originally broadcast on October 9, 2013. Osama Aduib’s father was less than enthused when his son revealed his interest in political science. “For [my father], anything other than...

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How Rachel Winard went from practicing classical violin and law to running...

This interview was originally broadcast on October 23, 2013. Rachel Winard knew she would be a professional violin player when she was four years old. “The second I started playing, I felt a...

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Willy Staley: One degree of separation between the McRib and the New York Times

This interview was originally broadcast on October 8, 2013. Willy Staley’s big break as a writer came when he wrote about the McRib sandwich for The Awl in 2011. In “A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as...

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Stumbling upon a passion for education

This interview originally aired on October 30, 2013. Trenton Price started his freshman year at UCLA believing he would use his future theater degree to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles or New...

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Merging academics and real life in a high school classroom

This interview was originally broadcast on October 30, 2013. Ariela Rothstein, a history teacher at a transfer high school in New York City, brought her passion for education with her when she started...

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Turning a pipe dream into a successful Mexican restaurant

This interview was originally broadcast on November 6, 2013. Oliver Kremer ate at 45 Mexican restaurants in 10 days to research New York City’s Mexican food scene before opening Dos Toros Taqueria with...

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Building a career by writing what she knows

This interview was originally broadcast on November 6, 2013. Author and teacher Elizabeth Fishel didn’t think writing was a realistic profession until she studied at Harvard University. “I found my way...

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Building a career in spite of a difficult diagnosis

This interview was originally broadcast on November 13, 2013. Rebecca Alexander, a psychotherapist and spin instructor in New York City, was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan when she was...

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Mike Sager on the importance of internships and why it’s okay to quit

This interview was originally broadcast on November 13, 2013. Three weeks into law school, journalist Mike Sager sat on the hood of his car on the brink of tears. When his girlfriend’s sister found...

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Pursuing journalism, not a journalism degree

This interview was originally broadcast on January 15, 2014. Yahoo! Food editor Julia Bainbridge went to Boston University to study journalism, but she graduated with a degree in cultural anthropology...

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A professor and production manager first forced into theater

This interview was originally broadcast on November 20, 2013. David Pecoraro, a professor of theater at Vanguard University, first got involved with theater because his mother was trying to make him...

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From basketball and finance to freelance photography

This interview was originally broadcast on May 15, 2014. Freelance photographer and filmmaker Nican Robinson was supposed to work at an accounting firm after graduation, but a candid conversation with...

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Facing layoffs, life as a networking queen

This interview was originally broadcast on May 16, 2014. Elizabeth Griffin is proof that an internship can turn into a job offer and that looming layoffs aren’t the end of the world the end of the...

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Following a lifelong passion for the sciences

This interview was originally broadcast on May 20, 2014. Retired gastroenterologist Timothy Hurley knew from a young age he wanted to be a doctor, but he isn’t sure why. “I think I was born knowing I...

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An art history major finds food’s place in the museum world

This interview was originally broadcast on May 29, 2014. Emma Boast, an art history major with a lifelong passion for food, might just have the perfect job for her two interests: she is the program...

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Building a fulfilling career without a college degree

This interview was originally broadcast on June 3, 2014. Part of what drew musician Tea Leigh to art school was the chance to apply on the strength of her portfolio instead of her SAT...

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