Internships and apprenticeships are a time-honored rite of passage in many industries. We’ve asked some brilliant folks to share some of the most important lessons they learned during these early experiences in their career.

Felicia Rials

Today, in the beauty industry people are so quick to jump in to this business with no experience. You don’t learn much in school just the basics. After cosmo school I moved to Los Angeles to assist celerity hairstylist Michael Sparks. It was the best yet scariest decision I’ve ever made, but no 7 years later it was the best decision I have ever made. Michael became one of my best friends, and literally everything he taught me is how I do business today. Read more>>

Tania Hormozi

When I first started my journey in the Psychology field in 2011; I was coming from a Journalism background, so it was going to be very different. I saw a lot of parallels between journalism and psychology. The first facility I worked at as an intern was a women’s recovery center in National City. I helped women with legal issues who lost custody of their children gain custody or visitation back. Read more>>

Callie Hunter

I tell people all of the time that training with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy felt less like school to me and more like a challenge in personal growth. Never before has something so closely aligned with my spiritual and growth mindset, yet guided it into new and beautiful paths. Read more>>