Graduated High School at 16, Bought a House at 19 - Victoria Pt. 2
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How did Victoria graduate high school at 16 and decide to attend the University of Calgary?
Where
did
you go?
I'm from Canada originally, which your listeners might hear generally only by a couple of words I say out and about. I grew up in Western Canada in Calgary. I somehow let my mom convince me to go to University of Calgary. Uh I'd been accepted to other schools, but I graduated at 16. And so she said, you know, at that age, even though I had a scholarship, she said, stay at home, you know, then your room and board is is paid for. So I did stay, went to University of Calgary, funded. Funny enough, I moved out on my own in my first semester. So I really could have and should have gone somewhere else. But that's where I went to school and then I got relocated right out of university to Toronto. So Toronto's where I spent a lot of my adult years before I was relocated to the US.
So then you graduate at sixteen, you're already uh see you're still accelerating way past everybody else. So before you even get out of school, I'm guessing that you might have had some jobs lined up.
Oh, I did. I worked throughout all of my university career. So I've I had never not had one, two, or even three jobs. So as I said, I had uh moved out on my own.
Why did she move out on her own during her first semester and buy a house at 19?
Um yeah, I was living with a boyfriend at the time, but I bought my first house at nineteen. So, you know, I continued working in banking. I also worked at a doctor's office part-time and I was an actor um on call doing some stage work, but some some commercials and things like that. So I did all all of those things while going to school full time.
Well how many uh what are you averaging for sleep going through that whole th time?
Back then I think I only needed four four or five hours. Uh to you know, today is significantly more, although it's much more interrupted than it was at twenty.
It it is amazing when people think that they're oh I'm stressed or I'm busy. It's like okay, l time out here, let me show you what busy looks like.
Yeah, my my children when I talk to them about, you know, the uh you know, because they often like to come to Mum for money when they need it and I'm like, Well, why don't you pick up an extra job? And my older son was like, Well, but then you have no social life. I'm like, Right, dude, I did not. Like choices, we make choices.
Well your social life is your at your job talking with coworkers about how you're gonna get more money and work more hours and did you give him an eye roll or did you put your hand on his shoulder and go, Let me talk to you for a second?
A bit of both.
What jobs did she juggle while studying and how many hours of sleep did she get?
He he didn't like the advice he got from me when he came to me for it. But uh I've tried to teach them the value of hard work in a dollar. Hasn't fully translated, but a little bit more so than others. And uh when they went to c to pokes to college, I told them they had to maintain a certain grade point average or they had to pay me back for that semester. I will tell you he only did it twice in his college education and uh complained, however, 'cause then I've his friend's parents made them do that. I'm like, Well Sucks for them, but I'm teaching you a lesson.
C suite. I had to l actually look up that term even though I've heard all of the acronyms. So explain to our listeners because we're gonna dive into the C suite thing here. What is that?
Yeah, so C suite, C standing for chief. So I've been a s a chief executive officer, CEO, I've been a chief operating officer, C O O, and many of the functions like HR and technology have reported into me in in some of those roles as well.
So you ki you got your first one at twenty four and that's kind of been your uh stamp on your resume. What uh le lead us up to that and then w what uh whatever you wanna wa expand on that. Go ahead.
Yeah, so I said I worked at a bank when I was in university.
How does Victoria handle advice about work‑life balance with her children?
I got promoted through the ranks up until like director level, so senior senior level. Uh I got recruited, however, at age twenty-four, and I was also a brand new mother.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–0:24
2
How did Victoria graduate high school at 16 and decide to attend the University of Calgary?
0:24–1:24
3
Why did she move out on her own during her first semester and buy a house at 19?
1:24–2:26
4
What jobs did she juggle while studying and how many hours of sleep did she get?
2:26–3:29
5
How does Victoria handle advice about work‑life balance with her children?
3:29–4:39
6
What does ‘C‑suite’ mean and how did she become a COO at age 24 while new motherhood began?
4:39–5:19
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