Ahh, New York.

I have such fond strong memories of you!

I remember being 20.

Excited.

Driven.

Eager to prove myself at my fancy new sales & trading internship at RBS, where I was earning a whooping $15,000 that summer - the most amount I’d ever made in my life at that point!

There was one big problem: I lived in New York, and my office was in Stanford, Connecticut.

So every day for 2 months, I woke up at 4am & was at my desk at 6.30am for my sales and trading internship.

My office was a massive football field with a 7 storey high glass ceiling and it looked like a set straight out of a Hollywood movie!

The first time I was on the trading floor, with traders screaming at each other, was a real “I made it” moment.

I wanted a return offer badly.

So I hustled in every way I could. I:

🔥Volunteered for every additional task

🔥Had coffee chats with everyone who would say yes

🔥Came early & worked overtime, always

🔥Gave up on my social life - because I had no physical or mental space for anything else.

And then I received the news: I didn’t get the job.

I was devastated.

I’d always been a straight-A, high-achieving, Ivy League student.

Failure was never in my dictionary.

And I’d given this internship everything I could!

It didn’t make sense.

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But you know what?

My story didn’t end there.

I ended up becoming a VP at BlackRock, launched the Hong Kong office for a fashion startup and am now living the life of an entrepreneur.

Now with over a decade’s worth of working experience, I can look back at this RBS internship and say: Thank God RBS rejected me.

I had no idea what I wanted so I went after what everyone else told me I needed - the prestige & the pay.

But what I truly loved?

The thing that lights me up and makes me feel that life is worth living?

It took me many years to figure that out. But now I have.

Today, I specialise in helping high-achieving corporate individuals - they come from Google, Amazon, Citibank and BCG etc - find their dream careers too.

I know how you’re feeling.

I’ve been there.

And I can assure you that there is a light at the end of a tunnel.

You already have all the tools you need to make that leap.

You just need to bring it all together to form and execute a game plan.

So are you ready to kick that game plan into action?

📥 Just DM me “GAME PLAN” and we’ll get started!

P/S: My recent time in New York really brought me back!