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.

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In this episode, member Spida Monkey, and that's S-P-Y-D-A-H, shares his brave path,

which led him to move to Chile after a graduating undergrad in the U.S.

with limited skills in Spanish, a limited network, and no full-time experience.

We explore how he eventually landed his first break,

how he was able to eventually transition to investment banking,

and what's in store for him next.

Enjoy.

Thank you. and what's in store for him next? Enjoy. Stephen, thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Absolutely, Patrick. Thanks for having me on.

Pleasure.

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

Yeah, absolutely. I am a U.S. citizen and with a residency now in Chile, and I've been living and working here for the past six years.

I'm currently working in a role as an MNA associate for a small bootcake firm here

and based on Santiago, Chile.

And before that, I was working for a big five firm for about three years.

So it's been a good experience here in Santiago.

I'm happy to share my story.

Great. And so did you jump straight to Santiago to Chile right out of undergrad?

Or was it something that you kind of eventually kind of decided after working

in the U.S. for a few years after undergrad?

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