-: Well I think Ball State gave me a really good foundation
from the standpoint is it was small, it was intimate.
Coming out of high school,
my learning style wasn't conducive
to the large mass auditorium type learning.
And Ball State offered me the ability to work
in a much more intimate atmosphere.
All my major classes in the College of Business were small.
I was able to work in teamwork, even back in that time
where that was really becoming a new way
of conducting businesses
through high performance work teams.
Yeah, I mean Dr. Bonavilla was definitely,
probably one of my favorite professors.
He was also probably the one that stood out the most.
He was probably the hardest on me, but he was also the one
that had that sales class that really taught you really
how to be good sales person.
How to sell yourself, how to build that personal brand
because at the end of the day, without that personal brand,
you don't really have a whole lot
and I think that he pushed us in a way that was coaching
but also on point with where we needed to be
with ourselves once we graduated.