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>> My name is Ryan Healy.

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I'm the cofounder and COO of Brazen Careerist.

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Brazen Careerist is a career management
site for young professionals everywhere.

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So we're kind of like a career
center for the world.

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So we help people figure out what they want to
do with their career, we give them the skills

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and resources to do it, and
then we connect them directly

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with employers to find their next opportunity.

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We actually set up events where it will be
networking opportunities for you to connect

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with somebody else who's
in your demographic, right?

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So maybe it's marketing professionals
in New York City.

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We'll have an event for them, you'll go on,
you'll be connected to one person after another

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for an hour who's also another
marketing professional,

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and you'll get to build your network that way.

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There's never a single day
that's exactly the same.

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Sometimes I'm just running
payroll and doing our finances.

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The boring stuff.

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Other times I'm out pitching
investors to raise money.

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Other times I'm talking with customers,
trying to sell them our services and get them

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to participate in our virtual career
fairs or license our software.

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And really, it's different every single day.

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I'm always managing people, it's
one thing that's always consistent,

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but it really kind of goes across the board.

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So it's, you know, maybe 8:30 to 6:30 we'll
be in the office, but typically I'll go home,

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you know, have dinner and end up
kind of working most of the night.

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Weekends, probably spend half
the weekend working as well.

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So pretty much always working.

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And I think that's one thing I've learned,
that you can't have a 10- or 20-person team

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with a million dollars of funding or less,
right, competing with a 10,000-person company

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that has billions in the bank unless
you're just working like crazy.