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Churchill said, those who failed to learn from history are
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condemned to repeat it. Kevin helen n believes that certainly
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applies to business. Welcome to Winning Business Radio here at
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W four CY Radio. That's W four cy dot com
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and now your host, Kevin Helena.
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Thanks everybody for joining in today. I am Kevin Hallanan
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and welcome back to Winning Business TV and Radio. We're
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on W four cy dot com. We're streaming live on
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And of course we're available after the broadcast in podcast
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form wherever you get your podcast content. That's YouTube iHeartRadio, Spotify,
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Apple again, anywhere you like to view. The mission of
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Winning Business Radio and TV, as regular viewers and listeners know,
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is to offer insights and advice to help people avoid
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the mistakes of others, right to learn best practices, the
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how tos, the what tos, the what not tos, to
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be challenged and hopefully to be inspired by the successes
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of others. Who are those others. They are consultants, coaches, advisors, authors,
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founders and owners, entrepreneurs, people with expertise. But you know,
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as I say every week, virtually every successful person I've
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ever had a chance to talk to has had some
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form of failure in their lives and careers. So I
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again say it every week. While we all have to
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get our knees skinned once in a while, I'm driven
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to keep those scrapes from needing major surgery. Let's endeavor
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to learn from history so we don't repeat it. I've
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spent the better part of my career equipping businesses to
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grow from solopreneurs to small and medium sized companies all
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the way up to the fortune fifty. I've seen some
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of those companies win, and I've seen some of them fail.
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I've had the opportunity to rub elbows with some of
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the highest performing people around and with some who probably
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should have found other jobs. And my own businesses, I've
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had lots of success, but of course some failures too,
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and I like to think I've learned a lot from
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those experiences. So you'll hear from me, but mostly you're
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going to hear from our guests. And today my guest
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is Jacob Zemon, a WSI certified Business Strategy consultant with
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expertise in AI and modern digital marketing, as well as
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a published author. Here's his bio. Jacob Zemmon, as I said,
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as a WSI Certified Business Strategy consultant and author of
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the recently published book Is Your Healthcare Practice Stuck? Drawing
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an experience as a consultant at Accenture Strategy and in
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executive marketing roles Publicist Group and MRK, he now helps
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health and wellness practices grow through strategic planning, AI and
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modern digital marketing. His agency specializes in rehabilitation and movement
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focused healthcare, including physical therapy, chiropractic, sports medicine, and orthopedic practices.
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And Is Your Healthcare Practice Stuck? He explains the common
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business and marketing mistakes that keep practices from growing, introduces
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a practical strategic framework, and shows owners how to apply
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today's marketing and AI tools to generate more patients than
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bill a stronger business. He earned his BS in mathematics
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and statistics from the State University of New York at
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Albany and his master's degree in statistics from the University
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of Virginia. Jacob lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Miriam,
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and their four children. Tomorrow, I think right also happens
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to be their tenth wedding anniversary. He grew up in
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West Niac, New York. Jacob. Welcome to Winning Business Radio
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and TV.
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Thank you, Kevin, thanks for the nice bio. Good to
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be here.
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And is it tomorrow at the end, it is tomorrow.
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Yeah. My my wonderful wife Miriam has agreed for me
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to do a networking event tomorrow as well. That's my
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that's my little that's support. Yeah, that is support. My
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little anniversary gift to her is uh gonna be talking
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about the book and sponsoring a table a local networking events.
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And I did. I did clear with the boss first
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and she was okay with that. But tomorrow is a
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special day for us for the book as as well
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as our adversary.
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Well that's a wise man. Uh, So let me ask
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about Miriam. How did you guys meet, and then tell
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us a little bit about her.
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Yeah, we met in simmer Spring, Marlin, when I lived there.
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We just got introduced by a mutual friend. We had
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a friend who thought that we would like each other.
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And Miriam likes to say that when she first first
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Army she was like, what are you talking about? I
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don't think I'm gonna like him. But this kind of
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like set me up because Miriam knew like that she
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was setting us up, but I didn't. So she like
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had like a brunch and invited us all over and
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a bunch of people, and I did kind of get
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drawn to her, and then she realized that she liked
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talking to me, and yeah, it kind of happened pretty quickly.
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So we met January, around right before Valentine's Day. So
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we met January of twenty fifteen. Yeah, and then we
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had like a first date around Valentine's Day, and about
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nine months later we got engaged, and about nine months
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after that we got married. Well, it was like a
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year and a half from meeting to realizing like hey,
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and then just finally getting married on Jolly twenty.
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First love it, I love it. Tell us your kids
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ages and first names if you don't mind.
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Yeah, So our oldest kid is Anne, seven years old.
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So we have four kids, ye seven and under. So yeah,
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we're not busy at all.
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No, not a bit, not a bit.
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So in the seven she's our oldest, she's like almost
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become like a little mommy's helper now she's Yeah, she's very,
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very sharp and very sweet. And then we have a
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dear our son who is six. They're almost two years apart.
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And then our other kids are just about two years
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apart as well. So Aaron, our other son, is four.
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And then our baby, Zahava, we call her z Eazy
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because he's cute. Zahava is two.
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Now that's great. Yeah, our kids are all about two
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years apart, not by It just seemed right. It wasn't planned,
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but it just seemed to work out right. So I
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understand you grew up in Western Nayac, New York. Tell
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the audience what it's like to grow up there. It
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was like to grew up in West Nyak.
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Yeah, so West NYC is one of those suburbs right
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outside of New York City. So if people are familiar
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with like Rockland County, New York, west Chester, New York,
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right so WESTNX in Rockland County near Nayak, near near
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the river. There, big big mall there. It's so, you know,
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very nice place, about a half hour drive to the city.
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People in the city would always ask if I was
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from upstate New York, and I don't do not like
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to call Rockland County or Westchester. Upstate New York is
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a very very big state. But no, it was. It
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was nice.
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Grew up there in like a ranch style house my
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whole life with parents and older sister and brother and yep,
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my I'm I'm the youngest one. My sister is six
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years older. She was also kind of like, you know,
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the the leader of the kids and taking care of us,
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and I was appreciated that. And then I had a
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brother who was in between our ages, who he was
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he needed like a lot of you know help at home.
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He had very subable palsy. Oh people people home. Yeah,
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he couldn't like move by himself. So my my mom
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said that, you know, although I was the youngest I'm
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kind of like the emotional middle child, Kevin. I think
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we've talked about that. Yeah, middle child behavior and youngest
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child behavior. I kind of am a little bit more
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like a middle child in some ways, even though I'm
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the youngest, because you know, my my brother, who is
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the middle child, got kind of the attention of the
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youngest child.
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Yeah. So I'm curious what your early interests were, say
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high school, because you chose math and statistics as a major,
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so you had to be into something like that. I
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don't know. That always seems.
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Yeah, that seems more like who likes math?
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Yeah I do. I do.
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Yeah. So I guess I was a little bit of
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a of a nerd when I was a kid. Right, So,
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when I was in kindergarten, my mom found it funny
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that when we did like career day, when the little
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five year olds would dress up like what they want
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to be when they grew up the top. I need
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to say, you knew what people like to be? Yes
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like to you know, those are fun I dressed up
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like a lawyer, you know. I went like a little
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tie and little briefcase, and I was like, I want
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to be a lawyer. When I grew up those those
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feelings kind of evolved and changed a little bit, but
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I was always kind of like more drawn to that.
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You know, I did enjoy math, and you know, there
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was a part of me that liked how when I
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was an undergrad I focused on was like pure maths,
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so it didn't have any any applications to it. It
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was like logic. So I liked logic when I was
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a kid, and math was like very logical. You had proofs, objective.
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There's gratification when you solve a problem, when you figure it,
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you know, figure out, yeah, yeah.
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something that is a little bit ironic, I guess is
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when I was in high school and then picking a
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major as a freshman in college, I actually didn't love
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writing essays. So I just recently wrote a book and
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I do enjoy writing in the academic sense. Though in
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school I loved knowing that you know that there are
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subjects where there's like a right or wrong answer that
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I could be. You know, I could do something and
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get created on that and get judged on that. It's like, oh,
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subjectively right or wrong. So it's kind of drawn to
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subjects more like that rather than something where someone is
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going to grade my essays. You know, people of all
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people change over time. That was over twenty years ago
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at that point, at this point.
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your master's right away, which I think makes a lot
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of sense. Why statistics? Did you know what you wanted
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to do at that point? Were you closer to knowing
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what you want to do?
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undergrad pure math. I graduated in twenty ten. So I
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don't know if people recall, but around that time, twenty
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eight nine ten, it was not the best job market.
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So I was graduating with little experience outside of some
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summer internships. So I graduated with like a pure math
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degree with no application in a job market where people
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weren't hiring. So I was like, oh, well, I'm not
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going to go into that. Let me stay in school
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because you know, if you're in school, you're not unemployed, right.
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That's that's right.
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But I also want to do something that was more practical,
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so you know, as we evolve over our time, Like
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I enjoyed the pure math, I enjoyed doing that, but
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I had to start thinking like, Okay, what am I
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actually going to do with this, Like what's the what's
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the point of this? So I felt like statistics was
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a natural extension of that where I could use the math,
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but statistics was highly valuable. You know, use statistics for
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a lot of applications. And I feel like there's this
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whole process of like not knowing what you want to
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do and starting broad and then kind of getting more
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and more focused, where pure math was kind of like
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that probably going to college not even knowing it was
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pure math, and then going into math and then going
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into statistics after that, like okay, this is like one
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step closer to something that like could be useful.
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Because you landed at first position looked like was Merkel
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a big data research marketing research company? Right? Tell us
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about the company and your role there.
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Yeah, so Merkele was was a marketing agency. I'm still
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as a marketing agency. I was there a while ago,
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but you know, that was my first full time job
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and I was there for four years, which you know,
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in this day and age, starting out after your master's,
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you know, this is a pretty decent stint at a
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place when people job hop a lot. So there's a
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lot of different clients. I didn't have a specialty. I
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started off as a marketing analyst, you know, building statistical
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models and doing presentations, but also getting kind of exposed
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to the business side, which I realized I started to
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like the business side a little bit. So that was
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my first taste on the business side and the marketing