Just a reminder. We all just spent a week together, a week that we’ll remember. Maybe your career was jumpstarted. Maybe you found the friend that will forever play a role in your life. Maybe you met the person who will be responsible for your first job or your second or the best part of your career. Maybe you fell in love with a place or a bench or a window or the view from above. Maybe you saw a piece of art or witnessed some humanity that changed you. Maybe you understood how to be a mentor. Maybe you figured out what you were meant to do. Maybe you saw Nick Offerman. Maybe you realized your ideas had merit and meaning. Maybe your hunch about how things happen was made real. Maybe you found out the west coast is where you are meant to be. Maybe you got the message about investment. Maybe you saw the network come alive. Maybe you fell upon a bigger question or a new perspective or saw the process work. Maybe you fell in love.

Whatever. 

It was a week, a good one. That’s life. Onward to making more good weeks. 

Deb Morrison

05.14.2017

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Fifth Takeaway:
In case you have forgotten, humans can do truly beautiful things when their talents are fostered, their feelings are respected, and their humanity is acknowledged. 


—Emily Garcia, Strategist

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Fourth Takeaway:
Sometimes the best things happen to you when you don’t go looking for them.

This takeaway speaks to me deeply because it happened this week.
When I started my journey in NYC, I had my heart set on a couple agencies and I had my life all planned out. The reason I was going to NYC was just to assure myself that my plan was right.
Then I got to the city and suddenly my plan and dreams evolved into different ones. The agencies I thought I wanted to work for didn’t fill me up like I had hoped. I was changing faster than I could have imagined; and I didn’t know what to do about it.
I was anxious on Thursday because I had to leave one agency visit and find my second agency visit on my own. I hadn’t navigated the city alone, yet, and I was worried I would get lost. After some gentle nudging from one of my professors, I realized I had the tools to find my way to the next agency.
He was right. As always.
What neither of us could have predicted was that the agency I was visiting would quickly become my favorite of the trip, or open up doors for me. What I couldn’t have planned was that my previous plans would quickly become null and void. What I couldn’t have known going into this trip is how much my life would change because of it, or happy I would be about this shift. 
I chose the photo above because I took it on my first independent venture in the city. It was in a small, French cafe with delicious macarons. I saw it in passing on the street with no plan to return. Then, after realizing I was an hour early to my appointment, I came back and had the best macarons of my life. The perfect illustration for the fourth takeaway of my trip in NYC.



—Emily Garcia, Strategist
5.14.2017

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Second Takeaway: 
The best rewards come after long journeys. There will be moments you question your abilities. But as long as you keep trekking, walking, searching, working, the success of your work will leave you satisfied.


—Emily Garcia, Strategist