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Doris Füllgrabe's avatar

Yay and nice shoutout to Michelle!! ✨

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Michelle is awesome!

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Sarah Jane's avatar

You're adored girl look at you!

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Michelle Elisabeth Varghese's avatar

haha thank you Sarah

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Bea Trinidad ☕️'s avatar

Beautiful breakdown! I love the squiggly journey of your career 🙌 Michelle’s advice is a game changer. Also, I have to say following the fun… and curiosity.

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Thank you! Michelle's got some solid advice, always!

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Kelly Davis's avatar

Such an incredible 3rd door example. Your experiences, along with your hard work and determination, make it hard to resist!

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Thank you Kelly! Man I remember just like spamming you in the chat hahhaa

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Kevon Cheung 🥦's avatar

I love the twist that you’re now the YouTube producer. Life is weird and non linear like that. Love your go getter personality - so much we can all learn from!!

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Life is so funky! Thanks Kevon :)

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Chris Anselmo's avatar

This is amazing Becky! Ali is someone I look up to. I'm so glad you believed in yourself and were able to make this happen!

This also really makes me miss Write of Passage...

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Thanks so much Chris. I miss WOP a lot too. Are you still in touch with a lot of WOP alum?

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Chris Anselmo's avatar

A few! Mostly through following their writing, but I've become close with a couple people from my cohort.

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

I love following people's updates through their writing. It's such a deep update into people's lives.

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Corliss Wong's avatar

This might just be my favourite piece of yours! I would gladly read a 3 part series on this topic alone. Never thought about my own journey through this lens, but everything you said resonated.

You’ve probably been told this before, but writing is honestly your thing (but so is YouTube producing and ten other talents). The fact that you can do it all and still be humble doing it is incredible.

Hope you keep following the fun (I’ll be following along) and I can’t wait to see what new and wonderful things you do next!

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Omigosh you are way too kind, Corliss! Excited to see how we grow :)

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Rick Lewis's avatar

Love this story!

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Thank you!!

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amal's avatar

Such a fun read! Unfair advantage is literally anything that makes you stand out. Your experience, energy and approach was the unfair advantage that got you this gig. Very cool.

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Thank you so much! Glad it came through ☺️

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Tahsin Khan's avatar

Inspirational as always!

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

thank you!

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Karena's avatar

Feel like im right there with you, Becky

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

you basically were! thanks for the encouragement :)

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Dominik Gmeiner's avatar

Whoop whoop!!

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Whoooo!

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kora 🌊's avatar

so happy to see the stars aligning… that’s how you know you’re on the right path!!

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

and it can only align after so many points :)

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Michelle Elisabeth Varghese's avatar

Gah I love this! Partially because being around for part of your journey, it’s cool to see the small moments while they were happening and then looking back now and being inspired by how everything added up! You walk the walk!

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

life is so funky to have ended up the way it ended up. what would I have done without your support?!

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Bhav Sharma's avatar

Love this 🙌 and so very glad because of it, we got the tiniest of overlaps 🙏😊

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Barely a week! Should have stretched out for much more.

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Bhav Sharma's avatar

That would have been nice 😢

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Ines Lee's avatar

I love this, Becky!! Am so glad you got the job, primarily because I got the chance to meet you through it x

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

I'm just glad you weren't like "this girl is too much" 😂 thanks for giving me a chance :)

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Humeira's avatar

That’s freaking awesome Becky!!

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Thank you!!

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