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Sara Lopez Story: Conquer Your Inner Self

“You know, you really do have the best job in the world.”

“I know, I cannot explain how lucky I am.”

It wasn’t always this way though. I was 22, doing business development in San Francisco for a large consulting firm, and my employer still hadn’t let me talk to an actual client. I wasn’t trusted, I was unappreciated and the worst part was – I knew it.

Every day I would work, trying to find a way to prove myself, but no matter how many fiery hoops I jumped through, no one seemed to notice. I had been called into the HR office and told that I laughed too loud, that it was a distraction for my co-workers.

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