Michelle Gage was several years into what she thought was her dream job when she realized she wasn’t in the right place. After studying interior design at Virginia Tech and securing a coveted internship at Anthropologie’s headquarters in Philadelphia, she’d spent her postgrad years climbing the corporate ladder at the retailer. Eventually, she began to see that her future goals were taking a different shape.

“I started to think, ‘Whose job in the company do I want? Do I need to switch departments? Do I need to dip my toes into some other area of the business?’” Gage tells host Kaitlin Petersen on the latest episode of Trade Tales . “There really wasn’t a great fit for that, because it’s not an interior design firm.”

Without a solid plan in place, Gage resigned from her position and beg

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