How I Got Here
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How I Got Here
Honest stories about making career decisions. How I Got Here is a podcast that interviews professionals about how they figured out what drives and fulfills them in their careers. By sharing these stories, we hope to help our listeners figure that out for themselves, too.
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Dr. Howard Murad: Founder of Murad Skincare
Ever since we started How I Got Here, we have been looking to learn from the various tools, analyses, and thought processes that people use as they de...
Omar Shahine, CVP of Product at Microsoft
Omar Shahine, Corporate VP of Product at Microsoft, has had a passion for computers since the fourth grade, but growing up, he never considered going...
Catherine Halaby, Overcoming a Quarter Life Crisis
During college, Catherine Halaby developed a strong view of what she wanted to do in the world. Ultimately, she wanted to work for the United Nations...
Héctor Colón: From US boxing national champ to non-profit CEO
Héctor Colón believes that boxing truly saved his life. Bullied for the color of his skin and growing up in poverty, boxing brought structure and disc...
Melissa Baird: COO of hims & hers
Melissa Baird describes herself as the best two truths and a lie player in the world. Her eclectic experiences help shed a light on why: Melissa has w...
Katie Burke, Chief People Officer of Hubspot
Katie has an amazing ability to navigate her career along two seemingly opposed career truths. First is that you know yourself best and you know what...
Season 2 Reflections
In honor of finishing Season 2 of How I Got Here, Lara and Eric spend some time reflecting on all the conversations and career journeys they’ve heard...
Amy Weinblum: "You’re never wrong about what you love”
Like many of us when we were growing up, Amy Weinblum had big dreams for her future. Her dream was to work for none other than Oprah Winfrey. Once she...
Amrita Saigal: “My passion is developing sustainably elegant products”
As we move through our lives, we never know what experience around the corner could have an outsized impact on our future. For our guest Amrita Saigal...
Caitlin Reiche: "I'm a relationship person"
Caitlin Reiche was attracted to the linear, clear cut career path. After she graduated from college, she pursued the natural next step for someone int...
Andrew Gazdecki: “My only goal leaving college was that I did not want a job”
Andrew Gazdecki had one goal as he was preparing to graduate college: to not have a job. Instead of a “job,” Andrew wanted to be an entrepreneur and g...
Natalie McCullough: "I was a bike guide and geologist and then a consultant -- it was not a straight line"
A common career trope we hear constantly is to pick something, anything really, and focus entirely on it from the earliest age possible. Work 10,000 h...
Season 2 Coming Soon
Hey There, We hope that you’ve had a great start to the new year!
We wanted to share a quick update that we’ve been hard at work interviewing n...
Season 1 Recap: What we're going to do differently in our careers
This episode is a bit of an experiment. Instead of featuring a guest's story, hosts Lara Mitra and Eric Eliasson will take some time to reflect on wha...
Lorraine Vargas Townsend: “How do we put people back at the center of what we are doing?”
Lorraine Vargas Townsend is a survivor. She survived growing up in a town where she didn’t always feel welcome as a Latina and a lesbian. She survived...
Kat Cole: "What’s one thing I could do differently to be more effective?”
Kat Cole is the President and COO at Focus Brands, which owns well-known brands like Auntie Anne's, Moe's, Jamba, and Cinnabon. Kat started her career...
Brittania Boey: “I’ve always looked for something that’s bigger than a P&L goal”
Growing up, Brittania Boey moved countries every three years. This shaped her professional approach: throughout her career, B demonstrated a strong ab...
Melynda Barnes: “In my soul I knew there was something else I was supposed to be giving to the world”
Melynda Barnes had four professional ambitions as a young child: to be an Olympic gymnast, President of the United States, an author of children’s boo...
Meredith Whipple Callahan: "If your heart’s not in the work, I don’t want you in the job"
Meredith Whipple Callahan, executive coach and partner at Evolution, seriously considered going into a convent after high school. She found herself dr...
Tod Plotkin: “I spent an entire weekend churning out as many messages as I could”
Tod Plotkin, CEO and founder of Emmy award winning Green Buzz Agency shares his career story, starting during his early years selling baseball cards....
Veronica Armstrong: "You’re going to have a garbage job. Find something awesome about it”
Veronica Armstrong, Co-founder and CEO of Isle de Nature, shares her career story. Veronica has one of the most varied careers of anyone we’ve feature...
Emily Heyward: Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer at Red Antler
Ever since Emily Heyward was young, she has loved advertisements. Instead of hanging posters on her bedroom wall when she was growing up, she hung up...
Steve Cook: "It was such a wake up call to me about what was really important"
Steve Cook, Executive Managing Director at LFM Capital shares his journey from the military into manufacturing and then finally into private equity. A...
Nicole Alvino: "I was 23 years old and was given power of attorney to buy a Turkish power plant"
On this episode, we chat with Nicole Alvino, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of SocialChorus. Nicole started her career at one of the most infam...
Andrew Noh: “In the last 7 years doing this, I’ve never had the Sunday scaries”
In this episode we speak with Andrew Noh, co-founder and COO of Finch Therapeutics. Andrew tells us about how, after a couple years at Bain, he went t...
Kate Bennett "I had to forget about everyone and focus on where I can have the most impact"
On this episode, we talk with Kate Bennett, Director of Marketing for MBA Admissions at Harvard Business School. You’ll hear how Kate started her care...
Ming Zhao: "I was an outsider for a long time, but I didn't pay too much mind to that"
In this episode, we speak with Ming Zhao, CEO and Co-Founder of PROVEN Skincare. Ming describes her career journey from roles in management consulting...
Austin Martin "It's my responsibility to figure out who can help me do what I want to do"
On this episode, we talk with Austin Martin, Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Snyk. I actually first met Austin by cold messaging him for...
Miro Kazakoff: "We never talk about the founders who didn't make it, I always wondered what happened to them"
Miro Kazakoff, Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan, shares how he ended up becoming a lecturer at the very business school he graduated from a few years earl...
Alison Corcoran "the 6 months leading up to bankruptcy was one of the most foundational parts of my career"
Alison Corcoran, Senior Advisor to the CEO at DentaQuest, shares her career journey from her first job out of college to becoming the VP of Marketing...
Simon Johnson, Professor at MIT and former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
In this episode, Simon Johnson, Professor at MIT Sloan and co-founder of the COVID-19 Policy Alliance, tells us about how he transitioned from his fir...
Paul Sagan, former CEO and Director at Akamai
Paul Sagan, Managing Director at General Catalyst and former CEO and Director at Akamai Technologies, shares his career journey with us. We had a grea...
Chris Bell "Am I going to be excited to tell my grandkids what I did?"
In this episode, Chris Bell, CEO of Whele, tells us about how he achieved his career goal of running his own company. We cover his career journey plus...
John Chisholm: “We laid off 40% of the company I’d spent the last three years of my life building”
In this episode, we spoke with John Chisholm, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and author of Unleash Your Inner Company: Use Passion and Persevera...
John Harthorne, Founder of Mass Challenge (Part 2 of 2)
In this episode, John delves into the details of how he actually grew Mass Challenge from scratch. You’ll hear John talk about:
How a hy...
John Harthorne, Founder of Mass Challenge (Part 1 of 2)
John Harthorne, founder and former CEO of MassChallenge talks to us about his career path and how pursuing struggle is the only way for him to find me...
Uvini Lokuge "We're instilled with this feeling that you should always be passionate about your work, which to be honest is crazy"
Uvini Lokuge talks to us about how being passionate about your work doesn't always lead to being happy.
In this episode, we cover her journey pl...
Elias Hoban "Waiting to the last minute"
Elias Hoban talks to us about his path from engineering and consulting to finding his ideal job as an equity research analyst.
In this episode,...
Elyse Neumeier: "I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up"
In this episode, Elyse Neumeier, Chief People Officer at EverQuote, tells us about how she embraced the many twists and turns of her career.
We...