Michael

"a lot of it was learned through failing. Um, you know, coming in and realizing what I was doing was wrong and figuring out how to correct it."

"I spend a lot of time on the road meeting with private equity investors and pitching them on our services, building relationships."

"every day is different"

"The most important skill is communication—with boards, clients, and your team."

"There's a lot of flexibility in my day...if it's Friday and I want to duck out early and go play golf, I can do it."

"My biggest challenge is figuring out how to grow the business in this competitive industry, pulling people from competitors and growing organically."

"I get to learn a lot about just how internal operations work at these businesses, what their challenges are, how they've succeeded in life."

"no one's gonna be holding your hand to get you to the top. Um, you're really gonna have to create your own path and build your own roadmap to get to the goals that you want."

"I wish I would've learned more about how to be successful. I had to really carve my own path."

"The best path to take is to find, you know, the larger firms and get an entry-level research analyst role."

"You can't be fearful. You really have to drive yourself forward without fear, because failure is not the end of the world"

"The biggest things that I did were the internships. I got a lot of exposure to how things operate, uh, early on in, in my life."

"I think that will help you create more of a diversified mindset as you look to find what you really want to do and what you're passionate about."