214: The Intern Queen: Everything You Need To Know About Interns with Lauren Berger
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode You Will Learn About:
- Why internships became Lauren's niche
- Some of her favorite internships
- The benefits of internships
- Internship misconceptions
- Monetizing her passion
- How Lauren uses rejection in her business
- Generosity within the intern + employee relationship
Resources:
- Learn more: internqueen.com ; careerqueen.com
- Instagram: @internqueen ; @officiallaurenberger
- Read: All Work, No Pay ; Welcome to the Real World ; Get It Together
Show Notes
The Intern Queen herself, Lauren Berger, joins me on today's podcast! Lauren completed 15 internships during her 4 year college career, which led to her starting her own thriving company. She is also a Best Selling author, and her advice has been featured on popular media outlets across the U.S. Lauren's company also serves as a marketing agency that helps leading brands activate brand ambassadors and establish a presence with both college students and young professionals worldwide. This episode is so great because Lauren has so much knowledge on all things internships and career– if you are curious about how to hire, create space for, or anything surrounding internships, this is the podcast to listen to!
Question Highlights:
- How did internships become your niche?
- What do internships do to benefit students?
- Why should an entrepreneur create space for an intern?
- When did you know you wanted to monetize your passion?
- How does rejection play a role in your business?
- How has generosity played a role in your success?
Lauren Berger is CEO & Founder of InternQueen.com, which reaches over 6 million people, and the brand new CareerQueen.com, which launches in September 2018.
Berger is known as "The Intern Queen" – as she successfully completed 15 internships at high-profile companies like Fox, MTV, and NBC during her four years in college – which lead to the successful launch of her own business in 2009, with just $5,000 of her own personal savings and is now a thriving company.
Berger has been a featured keynote at 200+ colleges, universities, leadership conferences, and entrepreneurship events. Berger's Youtube Channel, has over 1.2 million views and releases new content every Wednesday. Her Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn reach over 100,000 people.
Her first book, All Work, No Pay: Finding an Internship, Building Your Resume, Making Connections, and Gaining Job Experience, is a national best-seller and required reading at several colleges and universities. Her second book, Welcome To The Real World, was released in 2012 and coming this October 2018 is her third book, Get It Together: Ditch the Chaos, Do the Work, and Design your Success.
Berger's career advice has been featured on The Today Show, KTLA, Fox & Friends, Marie Claire, WhoWhatWear, Refinery29, Bustle, CNBC, Entrepreneur, Glamour and more. Berger not only delivers unique career advice to her audience, but also serves as a marketing agency that helps leading brands activate brand ambassadors and establish a presence with both college students and young professionals worldwide.
Berger's business has doubled in recent years and her current roster of clients includes Michael Kors, Keurig, Whole Foods, Schwinn, Duncan Hines, Estee Lauder, and over 30 other top-notch brands.
Follow me on social media @ChrisWHarder on Instagram and check out www.ForTheLoveOfMoney.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's just so important to be able to confidently articulate who you are and the value that you bring to the table and to be just to be really confident in that. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome everybody, this is for the love of money, |
| 0:22.2 | where we are making you unapologetic about your pursuit of success |
| 0:25.7 | by sharing the tools, tips, and stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:31.1 | My name is Chris Harder, and each week I will bring you incredible |
| 0:34.8 | guests in order to prove that when good people make good money they do great |
| 0:39.6 | things. This one is going to rock your world because we are talking everything interns. |
| 0:55.7 | Lauren Berger, who I'm about to sit down with is a genius. |
| 0:59.2 | She is arguably the nation's most in demand career and internship expert. |
| 1:05.8 | So we're so lucky to have her on the show right now. |
| 1:07.8 | She founded Intern Queen all the way back in 2009 |
| 1:11.8 | after recognizing that somebody badly needed to connect |
| 1:14.9 | business owners and opportunities with the interns looking for those |
| 1:19.7 | opportunities and vice versa. Well the result was that she's turned it into a million dollar business |
| 1:26.9 | while helping both entrepreneurs and talented college students find that partnership that they needed so badly. |
| 1:34.4 | Now confession, I've always been curious about internships and how they work. |
| 1:39.3 | And as an entrepreneur, if I was missing out on talent by not pursuing hiring interns and how it all works do you pay them do you not you know kind of all the different things that go along with this uncharted territory for me. So we go deep answering all of my, |
| 1:54.9 | and hopefully your questions on internships, |
| 1:58.4 | how they work. |
| 1:59.3 | We do some myth busting, we myth bust all the ideas |
| 2:02.2 | about how internships work and we also talk about |
| 2:05.2 | her awesome first book a national bestseller called all work no pay and then we get into her latest book that is also amazing called Get It Together |
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