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A moment of truth: coming into Coalition was a little bit scary for me at first. Perhaps it’s the legendary Management Roster, or the fact that I think Justin Nozuka is super cool – either way, I was pretty nervous during my first week at Coalition. But I discovered something quickly: everyone here is awesome.

When you first start at Coalition as an intern, you are given one-on-one meetings with every person in the office to ask them virtually anything you want about… well, anything! I decided to come up with a list of questions that I would ask everyone in order to find out about probably the most important thing to people looking for a foot in the door: how on earth did they get to where they are now?

The answer was pretty unanimous for everyone: someone – once – somewhere in their lifetime, opened them up to an opportunity and the rest is simply history. This entire industry seems to be built on relationships. Learning about those first opportunities was what was so incredibly interesting to me – an internship, a musician parent, a family friend, a desire to improve the performance world for artists – learning these career paths made it clear that there is no one way to create a career for yourself in the music world. So, create your own path and take guidance from others.

Personally, I come from a bit of an odd, yet well-rounded background: I’m an active musician, I’m passionate about arts education and youth involvement in the arts, and I am an enthusiastic administrative type. Coalition Music and I share these interests, So basically, Coalition and I should be BFFs! I’m looking forward to the next few months here and will take every bit of knowledge that the wealth of experienced and ~cool~ professionals in this office have to give me!