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...
View ArticleEric 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...
View ArticleInside 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...
View ArticleActing, 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleWilly 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...
View ArticleStumbling 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...
View ArticleMerging 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...
View ArticleTurning 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...
View ArticleBuilding 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...
View ArticleBuilding 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...
View ArticleMike 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...
View ArticlePursuing 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleFacing 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...
View ArticleFollowing 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleBuilding 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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