Mariah Campbell

As cliche as it may sound, I attribute my success to hard work and dedication. I'm surrounded by a lot of people who went to school for marketing or communication or business, and that's not initially where I saw myself in the beginning. It's been nice getting to learn and grow in a different way and take on new challenges. This wasn't the original path that I'd chosen, but I was just kind of led here, and it's been an adventure. Things have been challenging, and others have been easy, but it's a good ride, and I'm glad to be on it.

You can do anything you put your mind to, and I know that sounds cliche, but it truly is what you put out there. If you're constantly negative and down on yourself and you can't do it, well, that's what you're going to get back. But if you believe in yourself, you put in the hard work, you put in the time, the dedication, and the effort, you're gonna get there, and don't give up. There are people who will support you from a distance, whether that's people you know and love, whether they might be complete strangers, and somewhere in between. It's just really, you know, take the time, invest in yourself, find out what you like and what you're happy with, and how you can contribute that to the world.

A lot of challenges in this field today - the market is so inundated with people just reaching out, with spam, cold calls, people just really being overwhelmed with the volume of people reaching out. That makes it hard to really make meaningful connections, because we don't want to just spam people, we want to reach out with something that's really going to help them, high quality. So I would say a big challenge is just breaking through the noise. Being able to reach people on the phones, being able to get emails to people, trying to meet people in person, going to different conferences and events - it's very challenging because the market is just so filled with all those bots and things like that. Just trying to reach the right people with the right message.

Family first. I'm very, very big on that, and I think that it's important to make time. Work-life balance is crucial - obviously, hard work and dedication go a long way, but you've got to have a work-life balance. You've got to make sure that you make time for the people that matter, and what's money if you don't have the right people to spend it with or the right opportunities and things to be able to do with your family. I love going to church and spending time outdoors. I really value integrity - people who say what they mean and mean what they say. Sometimes people give lip service where they say the right thing, and then maybe you hire somebody or time goes on, you realize that that's exactly what it was. I value somebody who has good integrity, who stands behind what they mean, people who are determined hustlers, go-getters. Those are the things that I really value most in people - just meeting genuine people who truly want to make the world a better place.