Ali Russo came to Northwestern for her LLM in taxation after she had been working in the legal industry for years. Russo started her own firm in the suburbs of Chicago in just a month's time and now she helps the community with their estate planning needs. Russo discusses some of the career decisions she has made over the years because of her family. She is open about how having a family and a career is no easy task but she truly enjoys her new definition of success. Russo offers great feedback on what networking really means in this new world of work. You won't want to miss the insights she shares about knowing when to leave a job, and more, that were revealed throughout the conversation.

Connor Regan knew that he wasn't going to be the valedictorian at Northwestern so he found his niche in collecting real world work experience with 9 internships while a student in Evanston. One of those internships was at Google where he went back to after graduation and has not left since. Although it is rare for a millennial to stay at the same organization for long, Regan talks about how he could work at Google for his entire career and do something different every couple of years. Listen in as Regan talks about his first job starting a vending machine company when he was 11 through the advice he has to share with the Northwestern Network.

Emily Klear '12 MS started her career in corporate America at Coca Cola selling fountain soda in the Bay Area. Klear went back to school for her Master's in Marital and Family Therapy after a few very challenging personal experiences made her want to help couples through traumatic events and tough relationship situations. Klear changed industries and quickly advanced her career to become the Director of Couples Services at The Family Institute at Northwestern University where she is an active couples therapist. Don't miss out on some great insights on changing careers as well as on relationships in general that have come out of her years of experience working with couples.

Emily Drewry has learned a lot since her first job at the local Piggly Wiggly and she has continued to grow in her current role as the Social Content Editor at Forbes. She recently interviewed Arianna Huffington for a live twitter interview series, a project that she recently developed from scratch. She moved to New York City a week after graduation from Northwestern and she has not looked back since. Listen in as Emily talks about her path in the social content journalism world and shares advice for fellow alumni.

Ishan graduated from Northwestern where he studied flute performance and his career path has been far from traditional since then. He has a great perspective on learning something new from every experience, stemming from his first job at Summerfest in Milwaukee but he has come a long way since then. Ishan worked for a few years in consulting at McKinsey before starting his own business with three other Northwestern alumni. They have grown their team from 9 people in 2017 to currently 51 people who are working on growing the company beyond their traditional offering of office happy hours. Listen in as Ishan shares stories, like when he ran into a fellow alumnus in a hotel lobby in Egypt, along with many other bits of advice for Northwestern alumni.

Carter Cast is a successful professor, venture capitalist, and now author, but his career didn’t start out that easy. Hear Carter talk about his experiences, from being the founding CMO at Blue Nile Inc. to becoming CEO of Walmart.com to being a professor at Kellogg. His new book, The Right and Wrong Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made and Unmade, discusses the five archetypes that most often derail careers and offers advice on the different criteria to consider when thinking about making a career chang