STORY

It's a month that will bring up emotion for everyone. At the time, Buchun and I were wrapping up our senior year of college. I found out my starting position at Edelman was pushed back months later due to a hiring freeze. So I was staring at nine months until my career began. Grateful to have an opportunity lined up, I realized that some of my friends were not in the same position, the job market seemed to vanish. It was already hard to get into advertising before the pandemic.

With the nine months of free time, the idea of a podcast came to mind. To help my peers with their career trajectory seemed like a worthy cause, and the best way I thought I could help would be to share advice, not from myself, but from people much smarter than me. Mikey agreed to handle the audio, and Buchun quickly crafted the visual experience within days.

We posted the first episode out of my hometown bedroom in North Lombard, IL. The first guest was my good friend, Steph Maurer. Both in our senior year, eyeing graduation in the next month, we used that first episode as a therapy session. Steph was amid job applications, making her a perfect first guest because the podcast was built with our target audience top of mind.

The Mission hasn't changed: To help aspiring advertisers get careers by sharing stories of people with much more knowledge than myself. As a result, we've helped 10s of thousands of aspiring advertisers with advice from 90+ guests varying from recent grads to CEOs delivered every Tuesday. We can't thank you all enough for listening!