#57 Erica Vernet Knowles | Taking a step back and a job again was the most difficult decision

Thanks for tuning in and welcome back to episode #57 with Erica
Vernet Knowles. Erica is a Miami native, an international traveler,
and a culture enthusiast. With over 20 years of climbing America’s
corporate ladder, Erica found her niche in the media industry
serving as an executive director, publisher, and editor-in-chief.
But to get where she is today, she didn’t follow a straight path:
Erica started with studying architecture & design, followed by
studying political science, working in the pharmaceutical,
political, banking and event planning sector up to being an English
teacher. And today, Erica is the creator and producer of Collective
Drift.
 Throughout her career, Erica was told that with the diverse
transitions and overlaps in her CV she won’t find a job. In this
interview, she shares why this diversified journey, which actually
made her work for various companies in different lines of business,
like e.g. Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer or the MIA Media Group, was
a key factor of success. Hear how she dealt with doubt in terms of
sticking to a decision and how she managed to handle her hardest
decision: taking a step back and taking a job again. We talk about
Erica’s biggest challenge and learning when living abroad, how she
makes her decisions and how analyzing the origin of fear helped
her. She also explains that trial and error isn’t a bad thing for
her and that happiness is worth more than a six-figure salary. Why
building relationships is so important and how everything aligned
once she started going on her path - this and much more Erica talks
about in this episode. Get ready for her interesting life story and
enjoy this talk!