The Path That Makes Us

Co-hosts Will Holbrow and Ari Levine turn the mic on themselves and share their personal journeys through college, consulting, and business school, offering insights into career decision-making, academics, and the realities of life in consulting. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to the Podcast Journey 05:54 Navigating Career Choices in Business School 11:27 Reflections on College Applications and Decis...

In this episode, Will and Ari sit down with Alden Sulger to trace his career path from college to investment banking and beyond. They cover what it was like to break into finance during a global pandemic, the reality of investment banking grind versus his expectations, and the skills that carry over transitioning to the buy side. Alden shares his experience in the energy industry, corporate develo...

In this episode, Iann Karamali traces an unlikely path: from helping his family get Monarch Liquor off the ground during undergrad to consulting at Deloitte to exploring the future of AI through entrepreneurship. He gets into what early reps as a small business owner taught him about operating a business, why growing up inside an entrepreneurial family gives you an instinct for opportunity that's...

In this episode, former Marine Corps officer Daniel Medina joins The Path That Makes Us to talk about one of the harder transitions a person can make: moving from the structure and clarity of military service to the uncertainty of building a business from the ground up. He shares what resilience actually looks like when the stakes are real, how the leadership lessons forged in the Corps shaped his...

Neil Meehan didn't take the obvious road into tech or legal consulting, and in this episode, he describes exactly how he got in anyway. He tells the story of how luck played a role in his journey, the networking moves that actually moved the needle, and what it really took for him to walk away from a stable job and start over. Neil also speaks on his relationship with AI, productivity, and the dec...