Hello and welcome back to Redirected. My name is Andrew East and this is a show where we sit down with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, anybody who's experienced a pivot or change in life.

At some point or another, we all go through them. I certainly have myself and I wanted to sit down with people who have made it through these changes well.

Hopefully to Gleen Wisdom for myself and ideally share that wisdom with you. We're currently doing a Forbes 30 under 30 series where we're sitting now with young people who are building organizations and companies that are going to change the future.

And today we sit down with Carolina Rexie, who has Italian Roots, she grew up in Rome, ultimately came to the United States and went to school in Boston.

And she talks to us about what she's building now, which is Ed Sites. And Ed Sites is an interactive platform that encourages student interaction and engagement in order to increase retention.

And this is incredibly important. She talks about the drop-out rate in colleges in the United States and the success that they have had with the Ed Sites platform.

So we're honored. Carolina could join us today. I hope you like this episode and are able to learn something from it before we jump into the interview. If you haven't subscribed to the show and given it a rating on whatever platform you're listening to, that would be highly appreciated.

But without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into this one with Carolina Rexie.

Carolina, thank you so much for joining the show. It's a pleasure to meet you.

Yeah, thank you, Andrew.

Listen, I was checking out some of your other interviews you've done. And I think you did one with a radio show in New York. This guy gave the most epic introduction.

Said the Coliseum, cappuccinos and something else. And then Italy also gave us Carolina.

So you are definitely accomplished, gas, maybe one of our most. And I appreciate you taking time to talk to us.

I love if you could on that note of Italy. Tell us about your foundation, your background and kind of the potted version of your biography, if you will.

For sure. So I'm Italian, both my parents are fully from Italy. I grew up in Rome, so the capital really grew up there up until I was 18. So really lived a very Italian life up until college.

When I was 18, I moved to the US. So I moved to Boston for college, studied business. Mostly because I just didn't know what else to study and I didn't really have an idea of what I wanted to do. So I figured business and econ was to save that.

So I did that. And then I graduated a few 2015 moved to New York, got a great job at Bloomberg, working on their financial technology side. So basically selling financial data to broker dealers, banks, Wall Street people, helping them trade more efficiently. And so I did that for three years.

And then I just realized that that wasn't really my passion. I didn't want I wasn't super passionate about the cause and I wanted to do something that was my own that felt mine and actually live.

A life and a work life that felt more purposeful for me. And so three years ago, I quit that finance job and I started my own company and education technology with my sister.

I swear I just heard a New York accent. Have you been working on this or what? No, no, I definitely don't have a New York accent. I used to have actually when I moved here in college, I had somewhat of an Italian accent. And then it kind of faded away over time.

But sometimes it slips in. I'm sure you're you're going to hear some of it because it does resurface. I almost got like a Midwestern twang to it. I'm curious, what do your parents do? Were they encouraging of the idea of you moving from Rome to Boston?

Yeah. So they are both. I guess some of creative. My mom is a journalist and my dad actually is an underwater photographer.

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