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Anna Runyon

Anna Runyon

Founder and CEO of Classy Career Girl International and host of The Classy Career Girl Podcast; former Booz Allen Hamilton consultant turned entrepreneur.

Aug 27, 2026

25:42
But what other advice would you give someone that really wants to like maybe follow in your footsteps and, you know, take a side hustle and see if they can fly and then replace their corporate work?
25:54
Yeah, I mean, knowing your vision, knowing your why is always like the first place.
25:57
And, you know, we do that in our annual planning workshops, too, is you really have to know where you're going, why you're doing it, because it's not going to be super easy.
26:05
You know, there's going to be times where it's you don't want to do, you know, certain things in your business as well.
26:10
But if you know that vision.
26:12
you have that dream, you know where you're headed, you're going to be able to, you know, wake up maybe a little bit, a little earlier than you wanted to, to be able to work on that dream or, you know, find that time here and there.
26:22
And so I think having that vision has always been very motivating to me.
28:47
So tell us a little bit more about what prompted that brave move and kind of some of the lessons that you all learned as a family along the way.

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