Career Confidential: Melanie DiSalvo

Full name?: Melanie DiSalvo

Position / Job title?:

Founder and Creative Director of virtue + vice

Sourcing and Manufacturing Consultant – specializing in finding the right suppliers for startup fashion lines, and helping established brands make their supply chains more eco-friendly

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I have always kind of flown by the seat of my pants and gone with the flow. I

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Career Confidential: Brit Daniels

Full name?: Brit Daniels

Position / Job title?:Recording Artist/ Singer/ Songwriter

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I never really had a set thing that I wanted to be when I grew up. A lot of kids around me did, but I remember that was always a really hard question for me to answer. I knew I wanted to do something with music and sing because that was

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Career Confidential: Stelle Amor

Full name?: Stelle Amor

Position / Job title?: Singer, Songwriter, Artist, CEO of AMOR MELODIES

What is the biggest career mistake you’ve ever made? Waiting till I was “ready”— It turns out there’s never a good time to dive off the deep end- you just gotta do it and sink or swim. Whatever mistakes you make, you learn from them. So don’t be afraid to just do it.

What is the single most important piece of

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Career Confidential: Carrie Lane

Full name?: Carrie Lane

Position / Job title?: Singer

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I always wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform from the second that I stepped onto a stage when I was 4 years old and never wanted to leave.

Tell us what a typical work day looks like for you. What is your job

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Career Confidential: Brinn Black

Full name?: Brace yourselves.. it is a long one….Brinn-Heather Thomas Black (check out her latest single here!)

Position / Job title?: Full-time Country Music Artist / Non-Profit CEO, and Music Festival Director

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

For as long as I could remember, I always wanted to be a singer, but for some reason my mom said there was a year that

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Career Confidential: Maria Oliveira

Full name?: Maria Oliveira12998256_477719959084385_2234897561517646972_o

Position / Job title?: Co-owner of Passport Vintage, a vintage boutique located in East Austin.

Fast-forward several years/decades. How did you land (or create) your current position?

I worked for American Apparel as a district manager for seven years. There I learned everything I could about running a business. I then took my passion and knowledge of vintage and combined that with my retailing skills to build the business I

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Career Confidential: Natalie Nylon

CCFull name?: Natalie Nylon

Position / Job title?: Recording Artist

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

An astronaut! (laughs) I always thought that traveling to space would be the coolest thing ever. I used to watch Sesame Street and my favorite song was “I’d Like to Visit the Moon” that Ernie and Bert sang.

Fast-forward several years/decades. How did you land (or create) your current position?

Well I’m

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Career Confidential: Tara Macri

pressphoto1Full name?: Tara Macri

Position / Job title?: Performing Artist

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I am thankful that I knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I have been doing it. I also have really supportive parents who would drive me to lessons all over the place when I was younger. In another life, if I wasn’t an artist, I

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Career Confidential: Syd Duran

Syd on a Wall2Full name: Syd Duran

Position / Job title?: Songwriter/Recording Artist/Lead singer of Valora

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? At age 5 I told my mom I want to be a singer, and never changed my mind. Not even for a day.

Fast-forward several years/decades. How did you land (or create) your current position? I wasn’t born a naturally gifted singer, but I

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Career Confidential: Sarah Wollnick

sarah_wollnickFull name?: Sarah Wollnick

Position / Job title?: Co-founder and Vice President, Supplier Relations, etailz

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I wanted to be a veterinarian. I loved animals, training my dogs from a young age, and I grew up in rural area.

Fast-forward several years/decades. How did you land (or create) your current position?

In 2008, I co-founded etailz with a fellow college student and our professor. We had

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