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There are Very Few Things I Love More than Travel, But I’m Not a Travel Agent
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3 min readAug 29, 2023
Once upon a time, circa 2nd grade, I wrote one of my first essays answering the question, What do you want to be when you grow up?
The answer was an artist.
By 6th grade, I wanted to be an artist, a writer, and a lawyer because of some nonsense I learned about fully utilizing my right and left brains.
And by junior high (which was what grades 7 and 8 used to be called back in the day), money must have become part of the equation because I answered the question with, “Whatever career gets me an apartment in NYC.”
I ended up in sports and television and learned many essential business lessons over the years that now serve me and my clients.
The career advice I’ve received over the years has stuck with me, too. For example:
- When someone asks you a question you aren’t prepared to answer, pause, smile your most disarming grin, and ask, why do you want to know?
- In a negotiation, never throw out the first number, but if you do, be…
