Hey guys, I'm Carly Zakin.

And I'm Danielle Weisberg, and we're the co-founder and co-seios of The Skim.

On our podcast, Skimmed from the Couch, we talk to the women we look up to about the realities of getting to the top.

And their advice is what's helped us grow the skim from a company of two to something much bigger.

But we started here on a couch.

Yes, we are sitting on a couch. And now we want to talk to you about the things

that have helped us build our brand and answer any questions you guys might have about how to build

your own careers. So every Thursday we'll be discussing a topic that our guests brought up on

skim from the couch that week. Expect to hear everything from how to nail an interview

to how to manage a team. This week on the couch Melissa Benescheai talked to us about how she found her superpower

to make her company big by Melissa the national brand we know and love and eat today.

I think I have a lot of superpowers. I do. I think the first and foremost my superpower is that I see every challenge as an opportunity

and that attitude is I know we can do

that attitude it big by Melissa today and that's how I know we can do

anything.

Now we want to take your questions and how to find your own

superpower.

Hi, my name's Juliana and I was calling because I would listen to your blog this week and I had a question

for you guys that I was hoping to see what your opinions were. I'm a

young professional I'm 24 years old and I have been really fortunate in the fact

that I skipped a grade and graduated college early and all of that seemed like a great thing until I got into corporate America and now I find that my age is almost holding me back and letting people not take me seriously.

And so I find that I'm constantly trying to hide my age because I'm so young in comparison to my coworkers which always eventually comes out and I was

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