Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, Chief Monkey of Wall Street Oasis, and this is Monkey

to Millions, a show where you get a front row seat as I mentor young students and professionals

to try and help them break into their dream jobs.

In the first cohort, you'll meet four students, all preparing for intense job interviews

while trying to also balance a personal life and schoolwork.

The goal of this show is to shine a light on the struggles of trying to break into

competitive positions with a non-traditional background

and to give you a roadmap for your own success. My hope is that as you get to know these

four impressive students, you're inspired to dream big. Remember, these are real people,

and this is their true story. Let's get to it.

In this short session, Grace and I discuss her city internship this summer, and I give her some advice on how to make sure she doesn't burn out with the long weeks. Enjoy. Okay, Grace, give us the

latest. Yeah, so I started training, our first official day was last Monday, week ago today.

And then it's just been training this past week, onboarding, especially because it is entirely virtual.

A lot of just technology things to go through to get everyone into the system and set up.

But then I officially hit the desk with my first

group this Wednesday. So I'm very excited about that. Nice. You're a little nervous. A little bit,

but I'm more excited. You've done internships before, so you'll be okay. Awesome. And then any,

like, so far, have you been doing any training or anything with them? A little bit. So it's interesting how it's set up with the sophomore program at City.

It's, there's only about 30 sophomore interns across the entire firm for the New York office.

And that includes everything from banking, corporate banking, sales and trading, like the private bank.

So within investment banking, there's about 10 sophomore interns.

That's small. Yeah, it's really small.

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