I attended Anthony’s talk on Taking Control of Your Career to Live your Dream Life based on his book “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: An Insider Memoir.” His delivery engaged me from the start. He shared how getting laid off early in his career during the financial crisis taught him the importance of taking control of his career to live his dream life. Instead of feeling despair, he took the courage to risk almost everything he had at that time to start his own business. I was truly inspired by this statement during his talk “We can choose to be the main character of our own inspiring story or supporting cast of somebody else’s story.”

The Q&A session that followed about Anthony’s career pivots, how he got out of his comfort zone to enter new areas and lessons learned from building businesses were highly educational. His talk helped me think about my career and the meaning of life in a different way. Highly recommend listening to him speak.