CHAPTER 1

The Origin of the Career Launch Method

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

—MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

I was the first person on my mom’s side of the family to go to a four-year college, and my dad was the first person in his family to do so, after he attended community college.

My life changed in the middle of my junior year. At the age of twenty, I hadn’t given any thought to life after college. I was sitting in Professor Al Ferrer’s sports management class at the University of California, Santa Barbara, ...

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