Personal Narrative: A Career In Fitness

While breaking down equipment one day after teaching a class at Nelson Fitness Center, I mentioned to another instructor how regrettable it was that I could not find a viable career path where my interests intersected. As a junior concentrating in Public Health and Anthropology, I have always had an affinity for health and fitness, art and design, and entrepreneurship. That day, the instructor at Nelson gave me the name of someone through whom I could finally develop the dream career which, to date, had always seemed to elude me. As I quickly learned, Sadie Kurzban is a Brown graduate with a rapidly-growing start-up, ((305)) Fitness, a Miami-themed dance cardio gym. Through my contact with Sadie, I have established a potential internship opportunity where I can work under the leadership of the Chief Operating Officer, Sam Karshenboym, who is also a Brown alumna.

Working at ((305)) will allow for me to put both my academic learning and extracurricular interests in practice as I gain work-specific skills that I can take to new entrepreneurial endeavors. Through this position, I hope to synthesize …show more content…
Whereas my experiences to-date have been limited to a blissful bubble, working at a well-funded gym at an elite university, at ((305)), I will be introduced to real-world high-stakes decision making in the ultra-competitive fitness marketplace. The inimitable experience of working closely with the founder of a growing start-up and gaining exposure to all aspects of the business, from publicity to operations, will provide an intensive crash course in how a business is started and run that is much closer to an apprenticeship than an internship. I will use my time at ((305)) as an opportunity for intellectual growth as I gain hands-on practical skills in entrepreneurship which I can further explore during my remaining time at Brown as I delve in the STEM field with economics, computer science and entrepreneurship