What a delight chatting with Christina Mitine about her fascinating career path! From aspiring veterinarian to Oracle sales to various AWS roles, her journey proves there's no "right way" to build a meaningful career.

Episode Highlights:

• Christina shares how the Women in Revenue Group on Lin provided crucial networking opportunities
• We discuss navigating different company cultures and leveraging transferable skills
• The vital importance of finding mentors and sponsors who champion your growth
• Building professional networks that extend beyond your current organization

Connect with Christina: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmitine/

Women in Revenue (WIR) - https://www.linkedin.com/company/womeninrevenue/posts/?feedView=all

Become a WIR Member - https://womeninrevenue.org/become-a-member/

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🔗 Colleen on LinkedIn
🔗 Kristine on LinkedIn

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Maintaining genuine professional relationships isn’t just nice, it’s essential. In this episode, we talk about how staying in touch (even casually) can quietly shape your career in powerful ways—and how it’s played out over decades for our guest, Soo Finley.

This week, I got to catch up with my high school friend Soo Finley, who now works at the executive level in banking—and let me tell you, her career path has been anything but predictable (just the way we like it on this show). Soo walks us through her squiggly journey from Hicksville, Long Island (yep, that's a real place) to studying chemistry and engineering, and eventually finding her stride in the world of banking and finance. If you’re figuring out how to bring more of you into your work, or just wondering how people land in jobs they never saw coming, this one’s for you.

🎧 We cover:
Shifting from science to finance
Staying open to unexpected opportunities
Building meaningful professional relationships
Leadership lessons from inside banking
Personality tests, mentorship, and more

Connect with Soo

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What does it take to build a thriving business while navigating some of life’s toughest personal challenges?

This week on Embrace the Squiggle, Colleen and Kristine sit down with the unstoppable Bonni Scepkowski. She is an award-winning meeting strategist, founder of Stellar Meetings, and a master of orchestrating meaningful moments in the life sciences industry. But behind her professional success is a deeply personal journey of resilience, reinvention, and relentless authenticity.

From her first job at a travel agency to becoming a sought-after events expert, Bonni shares the career pivots, life-altering moments, and hard-won wisdom that shaped her path. She opens up about overcoming a difficult divorce, raising a daughter with psychiatric challenges, and finding joy in her work through it all.

💬 In this episode, we cover:

• Building a business while navigating personal chaos
• What makes a great meeting—and a great team
• How to cultivate confidence in corporate spaces
• The power of kindness, culture, and community
• Embracing the intersection of your personal and professional life

Bonni proves that you can love your work, lead with heart, and still keep your sense of humor. If you’re looking for inspiration, grit, and a reminder that success doesn’t have to be linear, this episode is for you.

Connect with Bonni: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniscepkowski/

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🔗 Kristine on LinkedIn

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