20 Questions:
Favorite holiday?
4th of July.
Favorite meal.
Lobster roll with fries and a coke.
Bucket list item?
Write a New York Times best seller.
Two books you reference often:
Range by David Epstein and Art of Gathering by Priya Parker.
Preferred mode of transport?
Train! Especially in Japan.
You in an emoji?
🌻
Coffee or tea?
Tea all the way. I start my day with a cup of chai with frothed almond milk.
Favorite pasttime?
Scouring resale sites for interior design deals; hosting dinners!
App you can’t live without?
Ten Percent Happier. A former colleague (shoutout to you Jenn Cornelius!) recommended it and I meditate with it each morning.
Best business advice you’ve received?
Be your own champion. As women it can be hard to share our accomplishments - but it’s always worth doing!
Quote you live by?
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…” - President Teddy Roosevelt
Number of continents you’ve set foot on?
Six… Antarctica will happen one day!
GCal or paper planner?
GCal is a necessary evil… but I’ll always be a pen and paper agenda person.
Favorite movie.
Rear Window.
Favorite day of the week?
Sunday - you get to cook, relax, read, prep for the week.
Most prized possession:
My Grammy grew up in Brooklyn and when I moved there, she wrote out a list of her favorite NYC haunts from her teenage days. I need to frame it.
Favorite color?
Yellow!
Proudest moment.
Earning my Les Mills Body Pump weight lifting instructor’s certification - all while working 80 hour weeks and the craziness of NYC life!
Nerdy news interest?
China. I hosted a conference called the Penn Symposium on Contemporary China as an undergrad, traveled there in 2018 and try to follow news.
Favorite hike?
Lion’s Head in Cape Town.