Christina Elezaj: From Pre-Med to Influencer

So you actually mentioned something that was going through my mind while you were talking, which was the through line of success with each of these different roles.

Because you and I have spoken about the plug and play concept of creativity.

You can be in any job.

but still feel creatively fulfilled.

So you mentioned persistence.

You mentioned grit.

I want to hear a little bit about what you think the through line was for success in each of these roles for you.

I really think, you know, like I mentioned before, I was, and my boss would say this right now if she's ever listening, I was willing to do anything and everything.

And even at LinkedIn, I definitely had imposter syndrome and I felt, you know, I would hear people A lot of the people that I was in the room with, they were using all these acronyms that I had no idea what they meant.

And I basically would go and do research and try to understand what's this language, like this marketing lingo that they're trying, that they're talking to me.

And it really ties back to even fashion.

Even now, I really do my research and I take the time to really be thoughtful about...

What am I wearing? What am I shooting? How am I editing? How can I be better? Am I responding to my community enough? And I think it really...

Again, the top line really is hard work and effort and really taking the time to...

In whatever you do, not even just being an influencer, but any career that you have is really just hard work and persistence and...

Yeah, I mean...

My friends always say, they're like, you're always working.

First of all, by the way, I prefer to work than do anything.

And I think once I realized that about myself, a lot of inner peace came because I'd be like on a vacation with my husband and kids and I'd be working and I'd be like, why are you a workaholic? What's wrong with you? I'm like, honey, there's no gun to head.

You could have put an out of office automation on your email.

But you enjoy this.

And like things crystallized for me at that point.

But the amount of back end work, people talk about it all the time, but I want to get a little bit more granular with what exactly goes on.

You know, sometimes I'll post a dinner party.

I'm like, you guys, this was two years of flirting with this brand before we closed the deal.