Christine Lavdosky –Entrepreneur, designer

She was very self motivated and smart. she know’s where she wants to go and how she wants to do it. i also love her store so she must be douing something right. she made me more confedint in the fact that i dont know what i want to do and that it is ok to try more than one thing until you find whut you want. i learnd that she was a rower witch made her more relatable because i was a rower aswell and just quit this year. this seems to be a well thought out program with interesting speakers.

Some interesting things that really stood out to me about what Christine Lavdosky said were; She would rather do something that she loves rather than do something that she doesn’t really like for the sake of money. Another main point that i found really encouraging was the fact that she still to this day is trying to find a good balance between bussiness and life. It can often be hard but you have to force yourself to make a consious decision to make sure you have some down time to relax and ‘regroup’. The fact that she admits that she still finds it difficult even after all her experience is really great.

During the interview I recognized two ideas that stood out to me. You talked about doing what you wanted regardless of what your parents told you in the first place and you being worried about going into the buisness and having fear of succeeding. I understand the struggles you went through and it gave me a understanding for what to think about my future.

She stuck with what she wanted to do with her life,and succeeded whilst doing so.
She made me aware of the fact that you need to make yourself aware of the challenges that you will face in life and address them accordingly.
Also, She brought awareness that it is important to follow what you want to do in life and work hard to get there.

This presentation really helped back up several of the conclusions I had already made about my life, and articulated several things in a very eloquent way. In particular, I thought that “Fear of success” was a great way of talking about that feeling; I encountered that feeling when I took my Black Belt test the first time. I was in the last part of my 5 hour test, where I needed to do 100 pushups in two minutes, and I almost didn’t make it. I had to try several different times before I made it, and each time I had to fight myself to keep going, to not quit; I kept trying to say “Hey, these last 6 years of training weren’t enough. You can’t do it. Suck it up!” Luckily, my Taekwondo instructor pushed me farther than I ever could myself, and finally, after my third try, I managed to get the rhythm and I finally succeeded, and I have always been incredibly grateful that I managed to overcome my self-doubt, my “fear of success,” and succeeded where I never thought I could.
Thank you for coming, it was a good interview, and I took a lot out of it.