Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

Let's get to it.

In this episode, Brittany gives us a front row seat to her long and winding path to land as a management

consultant at BCG. Find out how she was disadvantaged as a first-generation college student,

why she went back to get her MBA at UCLA Anderson,

and how that propelled her into a much more rewarding

and intellectually stimulating path she's on now.

Along the way, Brittany has also found time to give back

by founding suitcaseofjoy.org,

a nonprofit that brings toys to children

in remote villages in Africa and around the world.

Please check it out and consider donating. Enjoy.

All right, Brittany, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Hi, Patrick. Thank you so much for having me.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Yeah, sure. So I'm a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group, and it took me a while to get there.

But I work at Boston Consulting Group, management consultant. I have also a CEO and founder of a nonprofit organization called Suitcase of Joy. And I started out as a French major and worked for an engineering firm.

Then I at floor, then I decided to get my MBA at UCLA Anderson,

joined Experian in a leadership development program, which is sort of like being an internal consultant,

got promoted to director of strategy, and from there decided to join Boston Consulting Group.

So quite a few changes along the way.

So it's about a decade out of school, you'd say?

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