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Accounting ARC
With Arpan Grewal and Harshita Multani
Center for Accounting Transformation

Accounting ARC: Student-Led Conversations isn’t just another student podcast—it’s a cross-generational wake-up call.

In this episode, business students Arpan Grewal and Harshita Multani, both interns for the Center for Accounting Transformation, lead a powerful dialogue with Texlin Usher Quinney, CPA, PMP, Ph.D., and Byron Patrick, CPA.CITP, CGMA. Their topic? The flawed premise of “finding your passion.”

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“My daughter thought her first job out of college had to be her passion,” explains Patrick, CEO of VERIFYiQ and co-founder and educator for TB Academy. “But passion isn’t a one-time decision—it’s an evolution.”

That reframing hits home for Grewal and Multani, who admit to once dreaming of wildly different careers. “We grew up with Barbie being everything—doctor, astronaut, president,” says Grewal. “So why should we pick just one thing?”

Magnetic. Abundant. Unstoppable. This Is the Shift.