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Nicole Parlapiano | VP of Integrated Marketing @ WeWork

From My First Million · Published Jul 6, 2018 · Watch on YouTube

TL;DR

Nicole Parlapiano moved from New York to Los Angeles for USC during the 2008 recession, experienced seven years of career struggle with six jobs and multiple side hustles, and reached a low point at age 33.

Key insights

  • The speaker’s initial one-dimensional dream was to have a successful career in New York, but a terrible breakup led her to apply to USC and move to Los Angeles.
  • 2008 recession made her private-equity-related degree depreciate in value; she had six different jobs in LA (finance, online dating, beverage incubator, agency side) plus side hustles (pro bono startu
  • Her unconventional, non-desk jobs forced her to meet people, and she built a community that went “far and beyond the bounds of normal friendship” to help her fledgling career (e.g., friends doing hair

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