Lessons from a Quitter Ep. 22: Lawyer and Interior Stylist- How Sara Rezvanpour Rose created her dream job as Creative Counsel at the Jungalow
Ep. 22: Lawyer & Interior Stylist- How Sara Rezvanpour Rose created her dream job as Creative Counsel at the Jungalow
Have you ever felt like you want something more but you don’t know what you should do? Well, if so, this is the episode for you! Sara Rezvanpour Rose is a unicorn full of inspiration and provides so much wisdom for anyone stuck in a career they hate. Though she may not know it, her own path provides such clear guidance for how to approach finding your next gig. It includes: perseverance, hustle, creativity, courage, humility, and faith in yourself.
Sara is a graduate of UC Berkeley Law School and a former big law attorney. After being laid-off during a merger, Sara left big law to join her brother’s small private practice law firm where she honed her entrepreneurial skills as well as her legal chops. However, after a couple of years, Sara still found herself unsatisfied in the grey world of the law. She quit, without having a plan, to find a career with more creativity.
After deciding that she wanted to be in the interior design space, Sara reached out to people in the industry, worked for free, and hustled her way into a dream internship with renowned interior designer, Justina Blackeney. From that internship, Sara created her own dream position at Justina’s business, Jungalow.
Sara is now Creative Counsel at Jungalow, a bohemian lifestyle brand & home decor online shop. She left the gray world of law in search of color, creativity, and a place where she could be her wild self! Now she spends her days creating spaces that she hopes inspire a sense of magic in people’s hearts & homes. She also negotiates contracts, and still does lawyerly things but in a much more fun & chill setting.
Here is what we chat about in this episode:
- Why she felt morally obligated to go to law school
- Why she felt like she didn’t belong in law school
- How she ultimately decided to walk away from a traditional law practice
- How she figured out what her next step would be after law
- How she hustled her way into her dream job at Jungalow
- How she now spends her days doing part legal work and part interior design.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Women Who Run with the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Magic Lessons, by Elizabeth Gilbert
Where to find Sara:
- Instagram: @sararezrose
- Jungalow Instagram: @thejungalow
- Website: shop.jungalow.com
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