Career Choices: How to Decide Between Money & Meaning

Join us for our intimate kick-off event where you will learn the stories and strategies to help you make important career decisions, especially when trying to choose between the all-important money or meaning.

THE LINEUP

6:00 pm

Arrive for great networking, apps and drinks.

6:45 pm

We'll kick-off the event with a roundtable conversation and our fabulous guest Hannah Seligson, and hosts Rebecca Thorman and Dominique Broadway.

We'll talk about:

the trends toward not just a steady paycheck, but an inspiring career, a sense of purpose, and an outlet for self-expression balancing lifestyle choices like where you live and who you date, with your salary and job the exact strategies to use to decide between money and meaning delayed marriage and mortgages, job-hopping, the Great Recession, and student debt how to discover your passion and how to make money from it ... and more! After the panel, we'll open the conversation to audience Q&A.

8:00 pm

We'll close up with a few announcements. Stay post-event for drinks, and enjoy the art at the Dunes.

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OUR GUEST

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/1/d/6/event_246769622.jpegHannah Seligson is a regular contributor to The New York Times Sunday Business Section, where she writes about Gen. Y, the workplace, and innovation, among other topics. Her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Slate.com.

Hannah first book, New Girl on the Job (http://www.hannahseligson.com/sub/ngotj.html): Advice from the Trenches, a career guide for young women, was called "a must-read for every woman entering the work world" by the Houston Business Journal and the Washington Post said that it "covers the key things any young women needs to know to thrive at those first couple of jobs."

In 2010, De Capo Press published Hannah's second book, A Little Bit Married (http://www.hannahseligson.com/sub/albm.html): How to Know When it's Time to Walk Down the Aisle or out the Door, about the long-term unmarried relationship. The book was optioned for a television series by CBS.

Hannah's professional speaking includes conference and seminar presentations at universities, business associations and corporations. Recent speaking engagements have included Harvard Business School, Viva, Beijing Professional Women's Network, and the Culinary Institute of America.

Her latest book, Mission: Adulthood (http://www.missionadulthood.com/contact.html). chronicles the lives of seven individuals who embody the Generation Y, exploring their challenges and ambitions in vivid detail and sketching a picture, through their eyes, of what life is actually like for young adults.

She has been featured in news outlets such as The Today Show, Fox News, USA Today, and Glamour.Hannah serves as a mentor-editor at the Op-Ed Project. She graduated with a B.A. from Brown University in 2004.

YOUR HOSTS

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/d/1/c/6/event_244973702.jpegRebecca Thorman helps professionals and creatives become more independent in their careers and checkbooks. On her site Kontrary (http://kontrary.com), Rebecca writes a different take on how to make money and meaning, and co-organizes a monthly meetup. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, the Washingtonian, and the Wall Street Journal, and she pens a weekly column for U.S. News & World Report.

Prior to founding her business, Rebecca led PR and marketing at the e-commerce startup Alice.com, where she built trust and enthusiasm for an unknown brand, and led customer development to gain the company’s first 100,000 users to more than 1 million today. She also served as Vice President of Marketing for Speek.com, an early-stage startup in the 500 Startups family and winner of Distilled Intelligence 2.0.

Rebecca also co-organizes the DC Lean Startup Circle, one of the largest and most active lean meetup in the U.S., where she helps early-stage companies identify key customers and iterate products quickly. In 2013, Washingtonian Magazine named her a Tech Titan.

Rebecca and her fiancé Ryan Healy, founder of Brazen Careerist (http://BrazenCareerist.com), reside in Washington, DC where she loves to take long walks to explore the city and read books in non-tablet format.

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/d/2/9/8/event_244973912.jpegDominique Broadway is a Personal Finance Coach, Speaker, Entrepreneur and the Founder of Finances Demystified (http://www.dominiquebroadway.com/). She has a strong passion for working with young professionals, entrepreneurs and people of all ages to bring their Dreams2Reality. Dominique began her career at major brokerage firms UBS Financial Services and Edelman Financial Services.

Dominique serves on the board of DC Young Entrepreneurs and is known for being highly favored to conduct speaking engagements throughout the east coast. She has developed a reputation for making a boring topic such as personal finance fun, exciting, easy to understand and a social experience.

Dominique has also received various accolades such as the Top 30 Under 30 in Washington DC, the DC Future Business Leader of American Businessperson of the Year and the Top Financial Advisor for Millennials in the US. Dominique’s demystified financial advice, has been highlighted on Yahoo!, Pageonce, TheNest.com, and other online sources.