Congratulations to TalentEgg founder Lauren Friese for taking home 1st prize in the inaugural Impact Pitch Competition at the 6th annual Impact National Conference on Saturday night in Toronto!
The entire TalentEgg team is so proud of Lauren’s accomplishments and all her hard work on TalentEgg from the start.
"Congratulations to the winners of our Pitch competitions, Christine Poirier & @laurenfriese!!#INC09" (Credit: @ImpactOrg)
Lauren won over the competition’s judges and the audience, made up of top students from across the country, by giving a short, five-minute speech about the story behind TalentEgg, why it’s such a valuable service for students and employers, and why we’ve been so successful as a business so far.
Check out the video below to see and hear the winning pitch that took 1st place and a prize of $10,000 in services from KPMG (a great company that happens to be one of our clients!).
“When I was tiny, I had BIG dreams. I wanted to be everything ranging from a super celebrity to Missy Elliot’s backup dancer to a graffiti artist to an Olympic athlete. Anything that meant I could get paid for having fun went on my list of future endeavours.”
“I wanted to be everything when I was little, from a singer to an actress to an interior decorator at one point. But I guess my answer would have to be that I always wanted to be a writer because I was always making up little stories about my friends and showing them to my parents. I was always writing!”
“I wanted to be a ghost hunter. In second grade, I spent recesses with my best friend recording “clues” about the “ghosts” in a little black book. Why? I blame it on reading too much Nancy Drew and R.L. Stine while I was young and impressionable.”
“I wanted to be a veterinarian more than anything. I love every kind of animal and at the tender age of five I was unaware of the rather devastating aspects of fulfilling this dream. Once I found out, I quickly decided I would rather be an astronaut – a much less stressful career choice.”
“Either a veterinarian—because I loved animals!—or an astronaut, because I wanted to fly a spaceship and explore the galaxy (with my dog in tow, of course!). Though I became neither, I still continue to dream vicariously through trips to the zoo and tons of Star Trek reruns.”
“My first notable ambition, circa age four, was to be an Ice Cream Lady. My best friend and I planned to own the local Dairy Queen. A lifetime of blizzards and dilly bars was all the payment we required (apparently).”
“I wanted to be a circus acrobat because I was always jumping around and playing on my trampoline. I loved going to gymnastics class and imagined by life as a future circus performer, travelling the world on a trapeze.”
“I always wanted to be a teacher. As a child, I was lucky to have very nurturing and influential instructors and I wanted very much to be able to eventually provide the same guidance, love and passion for learning that I so fortunately received.”
“I wanted to be a paleontologist, because I loved dinosaurs and always wanted to learn more about how they lived, the different species, etc. I wanted to like Robert Bakker; I thought his beard was awesome. I also knew I was a girl and that growing a beard like his wasn’t possible, though.”
“I wanted to be an artist. I loved spending my time drawing. When I was six, as soon as I could write, I wrote and illustrated my first book, in French, about a girl who lost control of her imagination. That was my earliest inclination at wanting to be a writer, which eventually took over.”