I Just Met Bill Clinton's Intern!
Published on January 4, 2015
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I had a super exciting morning and would love to share it with you!
Knowing How to Take Advantage of an Opportunity
I am currently looking to buy a second hand car and while I know that ultimately I'm going to end up buying from a dealer, I was looking at my options on Craigslist... I found a car that looked perfect and texted the owner.
We had a back and forth conversation (car didn't work out because it doesn't have cruise control and because I do so much long distance driving, I rely on it...) and I ended up discovering that his background is in small business consulting in psychology.
Figuring that since I never met this guy, I couldn't possible go wrong by embarrassing myself, and asked him if there was a chance we could meet up. I don't have a penny to offer, but would he be willing to 'do a good deed'?
His response was awesome: "I am one of those people who believes everything happens for a reason. Sure."
A Free Meeting that should have cost me $750 (or so)
This was on Friday. We met at Starbucks this morning and had a great meeting!
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He really talked me through all the different ideas I've got going on in my head (I'm very creative, but have a hard time with attention to detail and not so awesome at actually taking action) and helped me narrow it down to my one passion - Project SWAG.
While he realized initially that that's what I cared about, he said 'You've got to make money in order to do charity...' Which is true but not what I wanted to hear.
What we decided on is that SWAG doesn't have to be a not-for-profit. I'd rather be busy working on it full time, charge people for its use and help people in the process, than keep putting it off because I don't have the time to invest.
Lev Bayer was really nice and managed to get me a couple of connections who could really help me with a) coming up with a business plan so that I can monetize this program and b) making the appropriate networking connections to promote SWAG.
I'm going to reach out to those people now and I'm excited to see where this goes ;)
Way to start the New Year!
Oh - and he interned for Bill Clinton right out of college. Great title, no?
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Cheers to y'all,
Stephanie
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