#22 Meredith Burall - Creative Executive / Knowing your worth / Perfect Mom & Dad mix

Welcome to another episode of "Wish I Knew . . . "

A podcast where I speak with people about their careers focusing on their success, advice, mentoring and listening to interesting stories.

I've got a creative person and interesting conversation for you today with my guest Meredith Burall

Career Overview

• Very creative career starting in High school doing freelance work in Graphic Design
• Attended Moore college of Art and Design
• Started her professional career at Asher & Company in Marketing / Graphic Design
• Co-founded Cloudfish Studios
• Held 5 different positions with BDO
• And now leads the Creative Services team and is a frequent speaker for branding and marketing best practices
• Has more than 17 years of graphic design
• She donates her time and creative skills to her local community

Highlights

• My youngest to start her career 6 year old start of the career
• Freelancing in high school and college in graphic design
• Getting into the job market during the global financial crisis
• Perfect mix between her mom and dad
• 3 strong women influencers
• Knowing your worth and turning down something that isn't a good fit
• Being in a creative and technical area and understanding the importance of people and communication
• Breathing & Adapting to individual communication styles to improve your career
• Being better at communication is a never ending process
• Rationalizing two setbacks that turned out to be positive when looking back
• Having her own business and living up to that dream under the umbrella of a great company
• See Whale Sharks
• Getting away from it all in the pocono mountains

Philly

• Loving the Philly art scene
• Philly cheesesteak conversation, I'm sorry I had to ask

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