Author: Julia Dean

The Value of a Mentor

By Julia Dean | July 11, 2016

More than a month has passed since I began my internship. It has been an unforgettable experience. Not only have I learned valuable lessons in the business, marketing, and lifestyle fields that I could never learn from a class or textbook, I have learned the value of a mentor. I have had the pleasure of shadowing…

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Connecting to Home

By Julia Dean | June 23, 2016

A month has passed since I’ve started working at my internship, theChicCulture, a lifestyle magazine focused on providing a platform for the highest quality fashion, food and travel experiences for the fairest prices. In layman’s terms, the business I work for helps you live, eat, and wear your best life. What this consists of as…

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Pivoting to Something Greater

By Julia Dean | June 18, 2016

We learn in our first year at Babson, during our FME class, that pivoting is something you should do, and inevitably will do (often, I learned). Yet, whenever pivoting occurs, it’s often with heavy hearts. We abhor change, failure, our Plan A going awry. Why is that though? Why do we think our Plan A…

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Facing the Unknown

By Julia Dean | May 26, 2016

I’m Julia Dean, a rising sophomore, and this week began my internship with theChicCulture, a startup lifestyle magazine focused on providing the best in fashion, food, and travel experiences, at the friendliest prices. Many conversations in the business world focused on startups discuss how one must be comfortable with change and the unknown. Of course,…

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