“Justin, what do you think your lasting impact will be?” That was, honestly, a question I had never mulled over. Ever. I wasn’t really sure of my answer either. I thought long and hard about it and I told the interviewer for Valley Business Front my honest answer. I was sitting in the middle of …
Author: HESONWHEELS
My name is Justin Graves. I am a 20-something young professional based between the Washington, D.C. metro area and Blacksburg, Virginia. I thank you for visiting this journal about my life: what I learn, who I love, what I am passionate about, what I eat, and who I impact. | Ut Prosim | Go Hokies! | Life is all about what you have done for other people.
“We all have this mission that we want to make a dent in the universe.”
My friends, my friends, my friends. I am SO sorry but it took me FOUR days to finally set aside time to upload the pictures from the Kairos Summit. This week was absolutely fantastic. I’m hoping things will die down this weekend a bit. But, regardless, here’s my post and photos about last weekend when …
Elevator speeches.
If I have learned one thing while working in higher education, it’s that everyone and their mother has a different opinion about what is best as far as Career Services is concerned. On most American college and university campuses, career services serves as the in-between between a student who has yet to graduate and their …
Fantastic Summit.
There will be a much longer blog post coming tomorrow (guaranteed – it’s already typed. I just have to put in some links and upload the photos) but I needed to share a few things, first! I wanted to give a huge THANK YOU to Ankur, Alex, and their entire team for doing a fantastic …
Kairos Society Global Summit
I will be spending the weekend here: here: and here: Too excited. Can’t wait to me so many international fellows and work forward solving some of the world’s largest issues through entrepreneurship and eliminating the boundaries that used to exist…before Kairos came along. Let’s #PushTheWorldForward.
Life’s curve balls.
Kristin, my wonderful girlfriend, has been recovering amazingly from a traumatic brain injury sustained back in November. Over the past few months we have been able to reflect, together, on ways that her accident and ensuing recovery have helped us grow closer at times that neither of us ever imagined that it would be possible. …
NEW BUSINESS CARDS GOT HERE IN TIME!
I ordered some new business cards ahead of the Kairos Global Summit this weekend on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Late last week I realized I only had about ten left – so I had to head over to my trusty business card provider, www.moo.com, and started to dig for some codes …
Needed to share this.
I’ve realized that a lot of people around me are very driven by what is the best decision for them, individually. I’ve realized that I have quite the difference in values – I’m trying to constantly make the decisions that benefit the greatest number of people around me. In trying to be better about updating …