From the NY Giants to the Last Frontier
In this episode, Lesa welcomes Olivia Atkin, a dynamic individual who hosts the podcast 'Achieving Success.' Olivia shares her inspiring journey that spans from working in professional sports with the New York Giants to founding Achieving Success, LLC, which includes a book division, a podcast, and podcast consulting services. They discuss the importance of finding and using one's voice, the varied career paths that can define success, and the unique experiences of living in Juneau, Alaska. Olivia also provides insights into managing professional and personal life transitions and emphasizes the value of networking and lifelong learning.
00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome
01:26 Olivia's Background and Podcast
07:31 Life in Alaska
17:32 Career with the New York Giants
25:17 Transition to Supply Chain and Business Ventures
28:32 Podcast Consulting and Final Thoughts
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Meet Olivia Atkin, a trailblazer in the podcasting world, whose show, "Achieving Success with Olivia Atkin," reaches listeners in 40 countries across all seven continents—making it the only podcast of its kind to achieve this global presence. Olivia, a dynamic entrepreneur based in New Jersey, empowers individuals to start or elevate their podcasts through expert guidance in strategy, titles and descriptions, uploading, SEO, and management for seamless success.
With a Bachelor’s in Business Management, a minor in Sports Studies, and an MBA specializing in Supply Chain, Olivia combines academic excellence with real-world impact. Her expertise shines through her certifications, including SHRM CP, CAPM, CPIM, and Green Belt Six Sigma, which she leverages to deliver exceptional results. As the leader of Achieving Success LLC, Olivia inspires others with her book, "Achieving Success in Career Development," and her TEDx talk, "Defeating Your Biggest Enemy...You!"
Through her innovative approach to podcasting, Olivia helps clients organically grow their shows, connect with global audiences, and achieve their goals with smooth, strategic outcomes. Her passion for empowering others and breaking boundaries cements her legacy as a leader in the podcasting industry.
Transcript
Welcome, listeners.
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:I'm so thankful that you're here today.
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:I have Olivia Atkin with me, and
she's someone that's kind of new.
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:You're a new person that popped up in
my world, and I'm excited to get to
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:know Olivia more for Several reasons.
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:One is she's got a podcast
called Achieving Success.
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:And Olivia, I did listen to some of
that today and I did really like it.
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:You have some great guests on there.
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:And so I would just, um, tell
my audience, if you're looking
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:for some interesting stories.
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:It's good life stuff too.
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:I mean, it talks about business and
growth and, and I'm about that too.
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:You know, even though I'm a little bit
more probably on the mature side, I still,
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:I mean, it's still fun to grow and learn.
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:And another thing that drew me to you was
you talk about having a voice in Olivia.
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:You're so young and you have
a voice and that's so awesome.
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:But I think about.
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:I am just starting to find
my voice and I don't know if
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:it's common for women or not.
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:I just know what I've gone through and
I know that I have kind of been maybe
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:a little bit afraid, maybe wanting to
people please and haven't used my voice.
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:So I want to talk about that a little bit.
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:Today too.
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:But before we get into all
of that, Olivia, welcome.
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:And please just share your story.
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:Just tell us a little about you, what
led you to do this work and, and you're
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:in New Jersey, which everyone's going
to know when they hear your voice.
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:Speaker 2: Yes.
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:So one interesting fact I'll
start with is I currently.
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:Um, go between New Jersey
and Juneau, Alaska.
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:Oh
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:Speaker: my gosh!
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:Speaker 2: We're currently, yes, um,
which is an interesting story about
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:owning your voice and your power, um,
in itself, because, never thought, a
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:girl born in the South, grew up in New
Jersey, and then after college went back
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:and lived in New Jersey, I never thought,
and refused to move out of the area.
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:So Alaska was not even
on my visiting list.
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:Um, let alone moving.
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:Um, but my boyfriend
is the chief in the U.
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:S.
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:Coast Guard and he got stationed here.
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:So we are here.
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:Um, do you know Alaska?
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:But it's a very fun journey and Let
me tell you when the times comes every
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:few months I could go back to Jersey.
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:I'm like, yes
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:Speaker: Well, okay, so I didn't know
that I thought you were in New Jersey.
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:So right now you're doing
this recording from Alaska
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:Speaker 2: Yes, and I keep it New Jersey
at like for example on LinkedIn where we
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:first connected Because typically, there's
stereotypes with Alaska in general, right?
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:Um, oh, the six months darkness, six
months lightness, there's no real
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:civilization, which I'm not, there's
some parts of that that are true.
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:There's some parts that aren't, but
typically, just like in general, um, when
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:people hear Alaska, they get preconceived
notions on your own capabilities,
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:what you could do, what you can't do.
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:And I'm like, We're going to
keep it to New Jersey because the
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:lower 48, everyone kind of knows.
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:Um, but yeah, so my story is I started
my business Achieving Success, LLC,
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:which has a book division, my podcast
division, as well as podcast consulting.
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:When I started my podcast,
Achieving Success with Olivia Atkin.
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:That launched November 1st, 2022.
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:So we're three years in, it's
been a wonderful journey, but for
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:me, I'd written my book first and
that gets used at universities, I.
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:Was teaching career development and
speaking about career development
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:and working at Lockheed Martin
at the time, but to also give
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:a little bit of backstory.
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:I did not go to undergrad college
saying I'm going to be in supply chain.
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:I'm going to do this and that.
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:Actually went my undergrad degree
is business management with a dual
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:minor in sports studies and law.
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:I was the youngest intern to ever
intern at the New York Football Giants.
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:And I worked in professional
sports for eight years.
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:So if you would ask me, I always go
back to like that young professional,
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:if you'd ask me then, my career would
always be in professional sports.
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:And I was lucky enough that
halfway through my college career,
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:I had that opportunity and I was
staying with the organization.
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:So I didn't even need to worry
about a job or go like, I might not
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:be able to work in this industry.
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:But it got to a point where I was growing
and I was working for them, managing
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:professional athletes and just going,
there's pieces of this I really enjoy.
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:There's pieces of this I enjoy
and don't enjoy, but there's also
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:pieces of this that when I look
at my future, is this sustainable?
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:And that's when I then You know,
transferred into and went back to school
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:and got my MBA with the concentration
supply chain because all these
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:different factors you get to work on
in supply chain and the things I love.
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:And by the time I graduate, graduated
with my MBA and start working at Lockheed.
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:It's a degree of certification
in every business area.
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:And the big thing I found was that when
you're talking, especially to young
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:professionals, they think what they
go to college for, even by year two or
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:three, and they might not be in love
with it, is what they have to stay in.
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:And I'm like, that's not true.
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:And if you talk to most people,
they don't enter or graduate with.
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:A certain degree and specific the
specificity of that industry or whatever
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:it might be that they enter and stay
that long term we change as individuals.
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:And that really needs to be what
I think and why everything's
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:called achieving success.
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:Because success changes and it
should change because the one
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:constant in life is change.
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:And so for me, doing my business
and podcast is going wherever
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:you are today, even if you're
in the thick of it, it is okay.
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:And it's relatable.
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:And it's finding your footing,
finding your voice, owning your story.
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:That will take all those moments
of doubt, uncertainty, growth that
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:you're having, and possibly even
issues other people don't know about.
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:And be able to become the victor of
that and go, yes, this is where I am.
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:And I'm proud of it.
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:Speaker: Okay.
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:I love this on so many levels.
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:And I just have to say that I love
that you say success changes because
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:I really didn't start doing this work
that I love until I was like 49 or 50.
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:So I want my listeners
to know that this is.
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:Any stage of your life.
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:And I want to talk more about that.
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:And I want to, I do want to
get more information on what
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:you did in the sports world.
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:Cause that's just intriguing
and I can't help it, Olivia.
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:I don't know if you even want to
talk about Alaska, but you peaked my
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:curiosity and I have to ask because they
have those shows like living Alaska.
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:And I never looked down.
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:I, like I watch and I think, wow,
what a beautiful beautiful space
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:to live in and how different is.
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:And can you just for a few minutes
shed a little light and tell me,
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:is it dark for six months or not?
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:Cause I'm in Wisconsin.
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:I feel like we're kind of close
to Alaska, but you tell me.
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:Speaker 2: Yeah.
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:So I could debunk some myths.
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:I could give you some insight.
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:So, I live in Juneau.
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:So, Juneau is the most
southeast part of Alaska.
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:Um, it does not have six months of
darkness and six months of whiteness.
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:It, and I will go over the time span
in a minute, I also want to highlight
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:Juneau is technically a rainforest.
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:So we don't get massive dumps of snow.
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:It's actually, I'm pretty sure from
something I've read when we moved
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:here, it's the only rainforest
in the U S I could be wrong.
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:Could be right.
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:Um, so don't quote me on that.
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:I'm just saying, um, But the way
in this section of June of Alaska,
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:the sunlight works is the longest
month of the year is June, and
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:it peaks at 18 hours of sunlight.
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:We, we moved here in the end of June
and to give an idea of what that was.
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:About 3.
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:30, 4 a.
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:m.
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:is sunrise and sunset's
at about 11 o'clock.
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:That's a little
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:Speaker: crazy.
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:Was that a little crazy?
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:Speaker 2: It was, especially moving here.
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:Um, so Juneau is also waterlocked.
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:So the only way to get here is by boat.
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:Um, and they have a ferry cruise line for,
if you're getting to different parts of
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:Juneau and from Seattle as well as planes.
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:So we got here on a boat cause
we had our truck and all of that.
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:And we got off the boat because of
some delays at two in the morning.
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:So we got to our house.
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:We were moving into it.
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:Two 30.
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:We're pumped.
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:We do a quick walk
through completely dark.
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:And then we're just talking like
ants walking through everything.
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:And all of a sudden I look at the window.
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:I'm like.
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:Is the sun rising already?
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:Like, what time is it?
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:I'm like, oh my god, it's 3.
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:What is happening where
the craziness really lies.
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:You have to be careful with that.
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:Um, because we moved here again
as part of the Coast Guard.
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:So we packed a lot of stuff in our truck.
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:Um, but like our bedding and stuff,
obviously the Coast Guard moved.
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:So we were sleeping in the living
room on our guests furniture.
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:We had bought when we were here
and We have a lot of windows.
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:So you were getting, I'm a light sleeper.
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:That sun's coming in
at four in the morning.
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:I'm waking up thinking it's seven,
eight, you know, at Northeast
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:time that 8am the day's going.
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:Where it also gets confusing and plays
with you is we all have that time
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:where it's like, okay, it's getting
darker, you know, days winding down.
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:And when it's bright sun at nine 30
at night and You're, you know, working
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:through the day and you look at the time
and realize what time it is, or you're
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:sitting and watching TV going, Okay,
I can watch TV for a little longer.
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:It's not that late.
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:And you're like, it's 11 o'clock.
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:Knowing that in a few hours, yeah,
it's getting dark now, but in a few
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:hours, it's going to be light again.
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:That's where it gets hard.
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:The other aspect is,
let's do the flip side.
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:So the shortest, um, month
of the year is December.
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:The shortest day to give you
some comparison is, we just lived
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:through this for the first time.
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:The sunrise was 8 30.
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:It might have gotten up to
like, 8 45 being the latest.
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:Sunset was The shortest day 3 0 8 p.
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:m.
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:So you're not even done your day.
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:It's a 6 hour chain.
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:six hours and like 48 minutes,
I think is the shortest day.
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:It might be a little less than that.
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:You're not even done your work
day and you're looking outside and
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:it's, you know, getting darker.
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:Um, and so you have to
mentally be prepared.
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:For that and get used to it because if
not, especially if you work at home,
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:whatever your work environment, even if
you don't, you're leaving the house in
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:the dark and you're coming home in the
dark and that really can play on you.
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:Um, also being here as someone who grew
up in an environment where you can.
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:Drive five minutes and there's
a Wawa in every corner.
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:Um, you got Target ten minutes away.
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:You've everything at
your fingertips, right?
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:Um, and you can drive, where I
grew up in Jersey, you're, to give
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:some example, you're 15 minutes
from Philadelphia in the stadiums.
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:You're two, not even two
hours from New York City.
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:You're an hour from Baltimore.
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:You have the shores within 45 minutes.
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:You can, you know, there's
so many things you could do.
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:We have the smallest Costco,
um, in the world here.
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:Um, we have two other supermarkets.
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:Um, you, the only chain restaurants
you have here are Papa John's,
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:Subway, and, um, McDonald's.
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:Everything else is mom and pop.
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:Um, so when you want to get things.
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:You can't just hop in the car
and go, you can't just do things.
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:That's that to me was honestly one
of the most difficult things because
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:I like to have accessibility to
things, whether it's resources,
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:being able to go, Oh, I need this.
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:Let me go run out and get it.
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:You can't run out and get it.
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:Um, most of
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:Speaker: the time.
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:So do you, do you order from Amazon?
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:Speaker 2: I do, but here's the thing.
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:Everything from Amazon comes from Seattle.
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:Postal Service is going
to be delivering that.
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:So let's say you order
something on Friday.
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:Typically it's good and
it comes in three days.
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:Sometimes it's a week.
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:You have to kind of prepare
for that, but they'll tell you.
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:Um, but let's say you order
it on a Friday morning.
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:Delivery, three days out, will be Sunday.
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:You're not getting it on Sunday.
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:Speaker: The U.
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:S.
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:Speaker 2: Postal Service
doesn't deliver on Sunday.
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:So there's those nuances.
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:Um, and, you know, in Alaska, it's
really for outdoor people if you're
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:going to live here long term.
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:The outdoor activities.
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:Um, the fishing's great.
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:I've gotten into fishing.
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:I'm not a big hiker.
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:Um, the snow's here, so we
do still get snow in Juneau.
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:Takes a little longer to gather.
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:So like, I have a ski lesson,
like I do ski lessons now.
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:Um, but there's a lot of pieces to it
that you have to go into with an open
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:mind when it comes to living in Alaska.
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:Um.
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:being open to also helping others
understand what it's like here,
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:because not that anyone tries to
have misconceptions about what it's
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:like in Alaska, but some of the TV
shows depict things differently.
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:Um, there's one that Alaska has
continuously, uh, I forget the name
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:off the top of my head, but sued and
actually thrown the people in jail.
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:Because they're misrepresenting
Alaska so severely of like,
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:Like what you could do hunting
and survival wise that they don't
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:want that representation because
it's not actually accurate.
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:But those are the things that Sadly, you
know, doesn't showcase what it's like.
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:Speaker: Yeah, I think it's so interesting
and I can't, my mind goes to when we
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:have our summertime here in Minnesota
and Wisconsin, I'm right on the border.
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:It's like you are.
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:Your life is just so full and it stays
sunny out and you feel so good and
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:happy and you're so much more active.
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:And, you know, in the winter, like now,
when you leave the house and it's dark
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:and you come home and it's dark, even
though it's not as, as it is where you
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:are, you, I, I tend to be less active.
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:I tend to just kind of sit around.
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:And so I just think I might
be like a crazy woman.
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:If I lived in Alaska during
that June month, because I'd be
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:like, you know, I'm like that.
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:Speaker 2: So, um, in the summer when
we were here, I'm like, this is awesome.
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:Like, again, I've, my boyfriend
has been fishing his whole life.
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:He grew up in Florida.
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:I got into fishing when he
was stationed in Florida.
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:Um, so like fishing was
great being in the water.
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:Like at nine o'clock at night watching
the boats go by like it's great.
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:Um, But i'm mainly in the house now.
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:So again, it's understanding Between
work and then it being dark and cold
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:like What you could be doing and keeping
that in mind to not go stir crazy
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:Speaker: Yep, and i'm and i'm sure
that I mean you just when those summer
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:months come I feel like I don't even
want to work Just get me outside
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:So, okay, thank you for, for fulfilling
my curious mind about Alaska.
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:I love that.
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:I love learning about that.
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:And now I just want to ask a little bit
more about your career with the giants.
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:Tell me, tell me about that a little
bit, because that's interesting too.
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:Speaker 2: So I got in with the giants
and I always tell people the importance of
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:networking and informational interviews.
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:So a lot of people.
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:Don't necessarily think of ever
building long term relationships
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:or doing informational interviews.
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:I reached out to the Giants when I
wanted to work there as, Hey, can I
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:just do an informational interview?
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:I'm not looking for a job.
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:I don't, you know.
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:Obviously an internship would be nice, but
I just want to learn about the industry.
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:I just want to see what it's like.
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:I want to, you know, be able
to get some of these questions.
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:And through some conversations
that was able to happen.
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:Um, and then I built a relationship
with, um, at the time the general
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:manager was Jerry Reese, his assistant.
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:And I continuously just
touch base with her.
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:And, um, really just built that
relationship up and the following year.
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:So it was almost a year was a
sophomore, and I get again we're
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:going to email back and forth.
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:She goes, I think.
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:There's a department still
looking for an internship.
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:And if they're not, I think the vice
president of that department would be
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:more than happy to do another, like,
an informational interview with him.
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:So she does an introduction.
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:He says to me, Olivia, why don't you come
in and we'll have a meeting in person.
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:We don't hire people your, your age.
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:Typically, they've
already graduated college.
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:But we'll talk so do that.
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:Um, that was during lunchtime.
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:So very interesting time because at the
New York Giants, everyone eats together
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:at the same time, including ownership.
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:So you're sitting down for an interview.
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:And, you know, Jerry Reese is
coming in, the mayors are coming
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:in, the players are coming in.
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:And you're sitting down for an interview.
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:At the end of it, he goes, you know what?
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:Do you have your resume on you?
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:Do you have your business card on you?
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:There's a department I think is, I
know is still looking for someone, and
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:I think you would be a good fit in.
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:Ended up that being player
engagement, so I worked, and I
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:ended up getting hired by them.
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:So, I worked directly with the players.
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:I did the rookie training camp,
um, helped people do relocation,
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:do all the different events.
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:So.
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:really worked closely and made sure
player engagements, the support staff
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:to the players needs and making sure
everything, you know, best it could be
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:without getting into too many details.
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:When my internship was up, which
was going into my junior year of
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:college, they actually offered
me a job in the PR department.
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:Cause again, With, at that time,
my degree I was getting and my two
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:minors, I could do stuff in HR, I
could do stuff in legal, I can, you
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:know, do these different departments,
and I built relationships with all
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:the higher ups in those departments.
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:And there were times where I would step
in during training camp and help the
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:legal department with like, setting
up the forms and the folders that the
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:players would need, and like, seeing
different aspects of the business.
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:And I looked at them like, I still
need to finish my college degree.
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:Like, I gotta go back to
school in a few weeks.
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:I can't work here full time.
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:I wanted to get that degree and finish,
even though it was a great opportunity.
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:And I also low key knew my parents
would probably kill me if I
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:Speaker 3: dropped
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:Speaker 2: out of college
because I got a job.
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:Um, and so they came back, the head of
the PR department, the director at the
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:time, and said, okay, well, what if
you come and work our game PR stuff.
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:And kind of be one, you know, under him
and the full time role, like for the
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:game day PR staff, you'd be the leader.
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:I was like, I can do that.
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:And that is where I sat for
the most of my remaining time.
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:If other issues or events came up,
they needed support because of my
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:relationships, no matter the departments,
they would call me to do them.
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:And then it just got to a point where
there was no full time availability.
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:To be hired and I was getting older and
I was just like, Okay, this is great.
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:But I'm about to be on my
parents health insurance.
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:I got to start figuring this out.
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:Um, but I built because of the positions
I was in and really advocating and
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:having conversations with the players.
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:I built relationships with the players
that during that time I was managing some
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:of the day to day activities with the
players, meaning their non profits, if
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:they wanted to do a charity event, um,
one of my players during the time that I
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:managed when he got traded was starting
a clothing line and I oversaw the start
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:to finish of doing that clothing line
and approving designs and Doing all
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:that different things that really led me
that when I went into supply chain and
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:then starting my business To have the
fundamentals to be able to talk about
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:everything, understand things differently
because I worked in professional sports
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:first, you know, that length of time
and then went to supply chain, which
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:is two very different industries.
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:But it's all about the experiences I got
over the time that I can leverage and have
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:conversations about and I was recently
just on a call with a company that is
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:a distribution platform for a podcast.
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:And they are doing amazing things
and They are rolling out a system
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:that should be way better for podcast
hosts and monetization wise and this
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:and that And I got on the call and
i'm like, okay walk me through your
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:process and procedure walk me through.
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:How's this gonna work?
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:How's that gonna work?
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:We were on an hour call and they're like,
well you're way more in depth wanting
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:to make sure everything is actually good
and we're being held accountable and like
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is going to kind of simplify what you're
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throw it out at you, but what you're
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a career and you feel like you hate it or
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true because everything is leading you.
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in every area that you're in to learn
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have another question.
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the supply chain realm that we all know
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something else, my friends have always
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that's not having to do with your job
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when it's going to come in handy.
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grow professionally wise,
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get today might not be handy.
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that you have might be handy
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you need to take that certification
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have kids and you have a life and
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certification can be way harder to do.
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conferences, speaking at the
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start an apparel company for the U.
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who support us every single day.
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just wear that's fun, right?
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had been sitting in meetings about and
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date played directly into what I was
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things, past experiences would still help.
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and understanding and network
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be like, yes, I want to do this.
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we're going to go through with this.
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and new people to consult with and
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of even when it could seem like
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to be afraid to go back to those
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you know, it's because I think about
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Oh, that was years ago.
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surprised If you really look at it,
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that are going to mold you moving
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you're thinking about, but Olivia,
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great, successful podcast.
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book division, which has a textbook
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colleges on career development.
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but you can buy it online and on amazon
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who buy that as a workbook tool that when
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have those resources, but I do a lot of
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consulting as well within my business and
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with people, getting them on the right
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that impact, or working alongside hosts
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and make sure everything runs smoothly
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the whole gamut, or if they already have
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here, achieving the goals they've set
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out and then do the titles, the
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platforms, the coding in the background.
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I had before our recording today of,
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more for people in the industry.
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finding out the information and then being
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best tools for all of us in the podcast
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so they don't have to, you know, if
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Hey, have you edited that episode?
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what a great way to use your voice.
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getting, you know, in hiring you for
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on LinkedIn by searching Olivia
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page and my personal LinkedIn.
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as well as my email olivia.
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know, you know, it's It is me.
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my website, achieving success.
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the show notes, but Olivia, thank you
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thank you for the work that you're doing.
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you for having me on.
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been a pleasure and I have a feeling
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be on my podcast and listen to
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