Nina Terraro Growth knows how to change course while continuing to move forward. She did it early on when she opted against law school and instead chose to pursue a master's in political science.

Then again, as she pursued a career news that would take her through the halls of ABC, NBC, and Entertainment Weekly, digital opportunities that gave way to on-air opportunities, before

Nina made the biggest pivot of all, picking up her young family and moving to Minneapolis

to bring her love of storytelling to target corporate

communications. And here's the thing. If you know Nina, which I do, we came up together through

news, she is not a sit still type. She is continually reassessing how to best align her values

and her skills, most recently making a leap to lead pipeline manager for target accelerators.

Nina is here to share what she has learned from all of these pivots and the work she's doing to change the future of retail.

Nina, thank you so much for doing this.

Thanks for having me.

Nina, I realize as much as I know about your story, there is a key piece of it that I don't know, which is what it was about your upbringing that made you want to be a storyteller?

I fell in love with storytelling because I knew I had a story to tell.

I think I was the beneficiary of hearing stories, almost that nauseam, if I'm being honest,

around how my paternal grandfather fled through heel. He came, you know, from the

Dominican Republic to Washington Heights with nothing. To this day, I don't even know really what's

true in fact beyond that simple fact because like he told his own story the way he wanted it to be

understood and shared out. He created his own legacy, as did I think everyone in my family,

and I'm the beneficiary of that. They made certain choices so that I could have the freedom

and privilege to create my own story. And truly, I think it was the simple things around my

childhood that kind of influenced my journey. You know, my parents didn't let me watch

a lot of TV as a kid. It was PBS and 60 minutes. Yes. And so when I was a little kid, I had this

really vivid memory of like sitting down with my tape recorder, remember those, and like recording

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