How Did You Get Your Start?

It started not knowing what I wanted to do. After undergrad, my calling wasn’t clear, so I took opportunities that were interesting at places I could see myself learning from.

I thought about law school, so I worked in litigation consulting. It was healthcare insurance fraud, which wasn’t the most interesting space, but it didn't matter because when you're 22, you’re a sponge for any information and experiences you can get your hands on. My team was incredible and I loved my boss (UVA alum too). It was intellectually stimulating, but after 3 years, I asked myself what the long-term path looked like?

At that point, I didn’t want to go to law school, and I wasn’t excited about being a compliance officer somewhere, so I pivoted, and took a job at Delta Airlines. I had a friend who worked there, and was anecdotally telling them what I was going through. They said their team was looking for an analyst.

I wanted that big commercial experience at a global brand. I worked on the trans-Pacific team — all the flights going over to Japan and Australia. It was great, but then 2020 happened.

All of our planes grounded, and I basically had no job. I quickly applied to Darden.

I went to UVA for business school, still not really knowing what I wanted to do with my life. 

It was a bit taxing. Everyone felt so certain about, say, IB and consulting, and I just didn’t share the same passion. I chose consulting at Deloitte for mainly practical reasons. The firm had tuition reimbursement, and I knew I’d learn a lot.

On the side, though, I was shipping people’s skis all over America as a side hustle, running the storage and logistics service for oversized outdoor equipment.

I found myself racing to the end of my workday to keep going with it, and once I had an MVP (minimum viable product), I left Deloitte. We're lapping year one now of the entrepreneurial journey, and it’s been awesome.