Her Story
About Meagan
Meagan Avery serves as a bookkeeper and executive assistant at Alpha Lending LLC in Meridian, Idaho, a role she has held since March. With about 15 years in the industry, she manages payments, balances books, writes checks, processes emails, and handles bank deposits and post office runs. Prior to this position, Avery worked for nine years at an insurance company, advancing from receptionist to account executive, claims liaison, and marketing director. She also served as an executive assistant at a large law firm in downtown Boise. Avery completed high school in 2008 and attended the University of Idaho, where she studied business administration and psychology without finishing her degree. She attributes her professional success to God and emphasizes the importance of continuing education through certifications. Avery advises young women entering the field to overcome fear, remember that everyone starts somewhere, and pursue opportunities confidently. In her current role, she values the freedom to perform her duties without micromanagement, especially during slower periods when she focuses on organizing documents.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Meagan
01What do you attribute your success to?
God. Without him, I don't know where any of us would be.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Don't ever stop continuing your education, even if that means doing side classes at the local community college, because those certifications can help increase and bring in more money.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Sometimes you just have to pretend like you know, sometimes you put co-workers or people that have a lot of money on a pedestal, you just have to remind yourself that they are human beings, and they all had to start out somewhere too. And you just have to go for it. Like, you can't be afraid, like, you can't live in fear. You really just can't live in fear. You have to just go for it. Because I promise you, once you actually get outside of your box of fear, and you get to the opposite side, it's an amazing feeling. It's scary, but oh, so liberating.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Loans right now are a little bit slow, so just keeping busy when we don't have payments. Like, going through documents, and actually filing them, and scanning them, and putting them all, like, making them as orderly as possible from the analysts that had gone through it. So, just finding things to do sometimes.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Freedom, honestly. Freedom to kind of not be managed. I mean, as long as I'm trained, then after that, I feel like once I'm trained, I feel like I'm just want the freedom to be able to do what I need to do, and not be micromanaged.
Join Influential Women and start making an impact. Register now.