Alicia Taubert I sat down in the same brown, wooden chair where I sold my first set of books three month prior. It was at that moment that I realized how much had changed in my life. I didn’t recognize the young woman I had become. This mere realization sent me into a little state [...]
Ron Alford – Seattle Pacific University We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts. -Romans 5:3-5 My greatest fear in life is to be average, to be “one of many”…. no [...]
Matt Atchison – Creighton University As a 29 year old young man that just found out I am going to be a father for the first time, I find myself recognizing that there are certain moments that carry real gravity in the story of our lives. Sometimes we realize those moments as they are happening [...]
Phi Do – UCLA Growing up in Northern California, I was surrounded by a network of family, friends, and a community that I grew to love. I loved my high school, my hometown, my room, my dog, all of which were things that I adapted to be a part of my comfort zone. What most [...]
Christine Martin – University of Central Missouri My experience with Southwestern Advantage is hard to put into words. I have been working with Southwestern Advantage for over 5 years. It is crazy think of where I was when I started as an 18 year-old girl and to see how far I have come. However, this [...]
Bryan Fink – Murray State University I was sitting on the edge of my bed, prepped, packed and almost ready to drive to meet my student manager and the other students who would be driving together to Nashville for sales school. So many thoughts were racing through my mind, the same thoughts I had already [...]
Dan Moore – Harvard It has been a privilege to work with outstanding college and university students for the past 37 years. Thinking back on my own six summers of selling, starting after my first year at Harvard, virtually every aspect of my life since then has been flavored by some of the lessons from [...]
Kyle Peters – Michigan State University I was approaching my third summer in the Southwestern Advantage summer program, and it was going to be my first time as an “organizational leader.” Being an organizational leader is lot of responsibility – not only do you coach your team in the summer, but you also coach other [...]
Blake McDermott During my university years, I took a course on Leadership and General Management. It was a six credit course, held on weekends, and before taking it I was warned by the professor and other students who had taken it before that it would demand a lot of me, challenge me, and occasionally even [...]
Aaron Schafer – Michigan State University When I first heard about the Southwestern Advantage summer sales program in college I saw it as nothing more than something I was going to try for a summer. My girlfriend at the time (now wife) had sold books for two summers and done quite well. I was paying [...]