Friday, August 21, 2020

Blog Archive Learn How a Bike Accident Led Meg Daly to Found Miamis Underline Park

Blog Archive Learn How a Bike Accident Led Meg Daly to Found Miami’s Underline Park Miamis Underline Park; Photo via www.theunderline.org Today, many aspiring MBAs and MBA graduates want to join start-ups or launch such companies themselves. Is entrepreneurship as exciting as it seems? Is it really for you? mbaMission Founder Jeremy Shinewald has teamed up with Venture for America and CBS Interactive  to launch  Smart People Should Build Things: The Venture for America Podcast. Each week, Shinewald interviews another entrepreneur so you can hear the gritty stories of their ups and downs on the road to success. New York has the High Line, Chicago has The 606, Atlanta has the BeltLineâ€"and soon, Miami will have its own park that was created on unused land right in the midst of the city. Sales and marketing executive Meg Daly came up with the idea for the Underline, a ten-mile linear park being built below Miami’s Metrorail, after having an epiphany while walking to a weekly appointment. Listen to the podcast episode to hear how she came up with the idea for this fascinating park, as she discusses these details and more: How a painful bike accidentâ€"which broke both of Daly’s armsâ€"was the dramatic first step on the path that brought her to eventually discover the grounds for the Underline What she did after realizing that for a project like this, no “road map” or guidebook exists Why being comfortable with being uncomfortable is essential for the project Be sure to subscribe to the podcast series to hear more entrepreneurial stories like Daly’s! Share ThisTweet News

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