Lessons Learned from Serving as a Panelist at the Under 25 and Ready to Thrive Conference
A long time ago, I learned that it is important to take advantage of everything that comes your way because you just don’t know where it could lead. Last month, I received an email from Next Gen email list about upcoming opportunities for speaking, funding, and startup marketing. On the email was an opportunity to apply to talk on a panel about entrepreneurship at Johnson and Wales University’s Under 25 and Ready to Thrive Conference. The conference intrigued me, essentially the premise was that many alumni 40+ come back to the university to speak, yet students don’t often hear from the younger alumni or people to learn from. The organizer of this conference wanted to change that and give students an opportunity to see and hear from young successful entrepreneurs who were around their own age.