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Turner College Alum Sharai Brown Offers Advice on "Advice"

CSU alum Sharai Brown graduated from the Turner College with a degree in marketing in 2019. Since then, she has worked as Brand Advocate Analyst for Home Depot, a management consultant with Accenture, and most recently as a customer experience management consultant with A&MPLIFY by Alvarez and Marsal. Sharai recently posted some advice on "advice" to her LinkedIn page that Turner Business decided to pass along.

"I’ve been thinking a lot about hindsight lately. There have been moments in my life where I was given solid advice — advice that, if applied sooner, could have led to stronger relationships, better decisions, and more stability. But at the time, I didn’t fully act on it. Not because I didn’t value it — but because I wasn’t always equipped to apply it yet. Sometimes advice is like being told to make peanut butter from scratch — valuable, even better for you — but difficult to execute if you don’t yet understand the process, tools, or steps to begin. I’ve noticed that when I don’t act on feedback in real time, the same lesson tends to resurface until I do. Now, I try to close that gap faster — seeking not just advice, but the context and capability needed to apply it. If you’re working toward something and feel stuck, this is a prompt I’ve started using with people I trust: 'Hi [Name], I’m working toward [X] by doing [Y], but I keep running into [Z]. Based on your experience, what would you do differently?' Sometimes the breakthrough isn’t new information — it’s finally being ready to apply what you’ve already been given."
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