Curating Career Life Stories: How Did I Get Here? Ep. 132 with Rachel Jenks

Join me for the career reflections of Rachel Jenks, The Brand Boss. She achieves her dream of being a professional ballet dancer at age seventeen, but after a year into it she is heartbroken as her body starts failing. Depression sets in as she sees her dream slipping away. Close to hitting bottom a friend shakes her out of this funk, where new possibilities present themselves. Taking her on the road with rising authors, traveling internationally saving the world, and finally a journey into advertising, marketing, and branding. There are lots of starts and stops along the way, not all on her terms nor within her timelines, but she’s now exactly where she wants to be! Two things have served Rachel best: 1) perseverance, keeping your eyes toward a better future, and 2) figuring things out, according to Rachel “life is figure-out-able”. Words of wisdom that impacted her are from Winston Churchill: “Success isn’t final, failure isn’t fatal: it’s the courage to continue that counts”.