"An Education is the Lightest Burden You’ll Ever Carry"
"An Education is the Lightest Burden You’ll Ever Carry"
A Podcast Discussion with John Fitzgerald of the International Business Council
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
—Robert Frost
Above: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past future.”
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of virtually sitting down with John Fitzgerald, Executive Director of The International Business Council, an organization that “work[s] to drive global change through business.” We covered a great deal of territory during our wide-ranging discussion, traversing the long meandering path that has led me from surviving my syndrome to studying the Liberal Arts to selling ads to stringing sentences together professionally.
Though at times heartfelt and solemn, I hope that you listen closely so as to ascertain the unembarrassed joy that tinges my every word.
After all, truth is real, beauty is powerful, and life is fundamentally and unchangeably good.
I cede the digital pulpit to John’s ever-so-gracious introduction:
As simple as this sounds, Tom White went to college for an education, not a job. Tom graduated from Notre Dame in 2014 with his sights set on being an attorney. In fact, he even refers to his degree as PLS - Probably Law School.
Instead of law school, he entered the business world. From starting and shuttering a company to learning from Stephen Colbert, join us for this insightful, candid, funny, and heart-warming conversation from a person who needs only three things to survive - faith, family and friends.
I hope that you enjoy as much as I did:
Per my about page, White Noise is a work of experimentation. I view it as a sort of thinking aloud, a stress testing of my nascent ideas. Through it, I hope to sharpen my opinions against the whetstone of other people’s feedback, commentary, and input.
If you want to discuss any of the ideas or musings mentioned above or have any books, papers, or links that you think would be interesting to share on a future edition of White Noise, please reach out to me by replying to this email or following me on Twitter.
With sincere gratitude,
Tom