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Trying to fall back in love with NY April 22, 2012 Ever since I moved back to NY, I feel like I’m walking inside of an old photo album... and it kind of smells funny. I’m currently living about half a mile away from the neighborhood in which I grew up in Manhattan, Inwood. It has stirred up more memories, nostalgia and lost feelings than ever a time I can remember. I first moved away from this neighborhood 15 years ago- wow. The gym I just joined is on the same street where I grew up. To get to it, I run past the elementary school I attended, my childhood favorite pizza shop, the apartment building I grew up in, and the mailbox I stood by with my grandma every morning to wait for the school bus. Its all very meaningful yet strange. A part of me feels… out of place. Disconnect: Things have changed. There is a CVS where Young World used to be, local mom and pop shops have been replaced with trendy restaurants and velvet-roped off lounges, and my favorite convenience store, Joan & Car...

A fun video set I designed for a client April 10, 2012 I’ve always said that my formal education distanced me from my first love, art.  Up until I was about 15, I was absolutely certain that I would be an artist; all I ever wanted to do all day every day was draw. I actually almost attended La Guardia High School, the top art school in NYC. Then, after getting a full ride, I decided to go to a private school instead in Massachusetts. After that, I went to UPenn and, well, it isn’t exactly known for churning out Picassos. I don’t regret going away but there has always been a part of me that wondered what if… What if I would have pursued the only thing that I loved as a child? This journey with entrepreneurship has helped me realize that in actuality, I did. I never left art because art never left me.   The real beginning of this road: I have remained in artistic realms my entire life. In high school, I worked part-time in my school’s catering department as a server for T...

In a conference room I was in for a meeting. What do you think? April 6, 2012 Full disclosure: I want to make sure that I talk about every side of what I am going through here. In the past, I’ve fallen into the trap of hiding vulnerability from the world. That isn’t the purpose of why I started this blog so before I begin packing for this next business trip, I made it a point to sit down and share another very real side of this entrepreneurship road: exhaustion.  I am beginning to feel the burn of this entrepreneurship grind more and more. The more work I have to do, the more I admire every story of budding companies run in basements, mom-entrepreneurs with multiple children and a thriving home-based business, and CEOs who did it all and then watched their enterprises flourish and gain dozens and hundreds of employees. (Sigh... One day soon.) Losing Balance: I am in a space right now where I am definitely still excited by everything I am learning and doing, but I am finding my...