mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

“Our lives are about not giving a fuck– and giving a fuck about the things that actually matter.” -Angelique K. Yesterday was a big day in the collective consciousness of Chicago. I like football; it’s exciting. I enjoy basketball (at least watching the Bulls). It’s cool to see your home team represent and do well. [...]

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Prompt: Action. When it comes to aspirations, its not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step? My next step is to write out my twelve next steps: one major goal for each month, which a bunch of smaller ones spread in between. Now I’m finally getting into a good swing of [...]

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Tonight I will be coordinating and hosting the Chicago branch of Brazen Careerist’s first-ever WORLDWIDE Meetup Everywhere Event called Crowdsource Your Career. Ryan Paugh, Brazen’s community director, reached out to me last week and invited me to participate in the new project, and I jumped at the chance to actually, you know, host and organize something [...]

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“You guys are students; you’re idealists. You don’t know what art + corporate interests mean yet. Just prepare to have your heart broken. Get your Africa tickets ready, baby. You have no idea…People are not crazy, they’re strong people. Maybe the environment is a little sick.” –Dave Chappelle on Inside the Actors Studio Wednesday night, [...]

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I’ve worked in the service industry in some capacity for the last five years. I’ve worked in bars and at sporting venues (for the Bulls, Blackhawks, White Sox and Bears), and the movie Waiting was especially poignant for me. One of my fellow servers at the Chicago Stadium Club did a special segment on Oprah’s show, [...]

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