Career Confidential: AdaPia d’Errico

Full name?: AdaPia d’Erricoadapia-web

Position / Job title?: Chief Marketing Officer of Patch of Land

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

When I was five, I remember wanting to be a paleontologist because I wanted to dig up dinosaurs. Then I wanted to be a marine biologist because sea animals enamored me. At 10, I thought I wanted to be a lawyer.

Fast-forward several years/decades. How did you land

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Career Confidential: Jamie McKillop

HeadshotFull name?: Jamie McKillop

Position / Job title?: Assistant Editor, Well+Good

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

I always wanted to be a magazine editor. I remember I had a little hope chest and I wrote “magazine editor” on it in fancy writing. I was obsessed with magazines for as long as I can remember. I would sit in my room for hours reading them and

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Career Confidential: Rebecca Juliet

Full name?: Rebecca JulietScreen-shot-2013-05-14-at-8.54.08-PM-840x396

Position / Job title?: Singer/Songwriter

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

In all honesty, I wanted to be a pirate for a while. It was pretty distressing to learn at around age six that people didn’t roam the high seas with trusty parrots anymore.

If you could look into a crystal ball and see 20 years into your future, what would

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Career Confidential: ILANA

_O_G3A5212Full name: Ilana Strom Harkavy (don’t forget to donate to her IndieGogo campaign, here)

Position / Job title: I am a recording artist (singer) and songwriter as well as the CEO and founder of nailed it! media and the founder of The Just, Girl. Project

1. What is the single most important piece of advice you would give to other career-minded women? You HAVE to never give up and you HAVE

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Career Confidential: Sara Safari

Full name?: Sara Safari

Position / Job title?: Electrical Engineer, Lecturer

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

Fast-forward several years/decades. How did you land (or create) your current position? I wanted to do something that has a lot of math and physics in it because they were my favorite subjects.

Did you have to take on internships to get there? How important in general, do you think, are internships? Yes, I did couple of internships. I think they are great and necessary.

Tell us what a

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Career Confidential: Justine Dorsey

Justine-Dorsey-Cliche-006-v2-FullFull name: Justine Dorsey

Position / Job title: Songwriter/Singer/Performer

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

I wanted to be a lot of things. There was a good chunk of time where I wanted to be a veterinarian. There was a veeeerry short-lived baseball phase (I have since lost my enthusiasm for physical activity). Looking back on it, I guess I always knew I’d be an

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Career Confidential: Stalking Gia

Full name?: Stalking Gia

Position / Job title?: Artist / Songwriter

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I knew exactly what I wanted out of life from an early age, in a way that immediately made me an outcast. I never dreamt up an unrealistic job title, I’ve always set forth in the motion that I was to be a songwriter.

Fast-forward several years/decades. How did you land (or create) your current position? Persistence is everything. You have to know in life that there are people that are going to

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Career Confidential: Franki Love

Franki_1Full name?: Franki Love

Position / Job title?: Singer/Songwriter/Pianist

1. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I had NO IDEA. All I knew is that I wanted to do something that would be fun and meaningful and that would inspire others.

2. Fast­forward several years/decades. How did you land (or create) your current position? It was serendipitous events that brought me to making music, my

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Career Confidential: Diana Espir

new_dianaFull name: Diana Espir

Position / Job title?: Recording Artist & Performer

1. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I started my singing career at the age of 15 so I already knew I wanted to be a singer since a young age but honestly, I thought of it as a temporary occupation and never once imagined I would be lucky enough to carry

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Career Confidential: SARIAH

sariah faceFull name?: SARIAH

Position / Job title?: Recording Artist, Actress, Dancer

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

I always always always knew I would be an entertainer. As a child, I would lay down a blanket in my living room as my stage. I put on my favorite leotard and would sing and dance around for everyone and anyone who was there! That never stopped. As I

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