Grace grew up in the Bay Area and attended college at UC Berkeley. As the undergraduate student body president of Haas, she built programs focused on giving back, fostering community, and reducing elitism.
She moved to New York to begin her career in finance covering technology and media clients at J.P. Morgan. Looking to use her entrepreneurial spirit to build, she transitioned into the tech industry at UberEats and has continued building as a product manager in mid (CommonBond) and early stage (FreshCut) startups. Grace is currently an MBA student at Harvard Business School.
In her free time, she loves playing Dota 2 and strategic board games (like Avalon), creating music on her piano, playing basketball and flag football with her church, cooking from leftovers, and iPhone photography.
Behind Finding Grace
I have always loved writing. As a kid, the first thing on my life bucketlist was to write a book. I endlessly wrote stories in my free time. But I was afraid to write publicly due to cultural and personal reasons, and because frankly, I really struggle with perfectionism (conscientiousness, pedantry, hit me with whatever you want to call it).
perfectionism → writing to standard takes too long → can’t scale → nothing happens
Becoming a product manager was such a great career discovery because the negatives of perfectionism hit like a brick. What previously carried me through college exams and investment banking prevented me from building quickly and iterating on mistakes. I drained too much refining PRDs, updates, and processes. Bugs and issues consumed me. Maybe it made me incredibly thorough and smoothed launches, but it also led to burn out, exhaustion, and at its worst moments, probably negatively bled to the people around me.
So when I decided to just take the dive, thinking about what I should call my tiny corner of the Internet, one quote really stuck.
“We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.”
Tim Keller
I started Finding Grace to rekindle my love for writing and tangibly work on improving the issue that has been suffocating it.
Failures are inevitable. Impressive feats may be achieved. But no matter what happens, God can’t love me any more and any less. His love for me has nothing to do with my performance or deeds which is such a beautiful thing in a harsh, transactional world. Unconditional.
I could be hooking up mergers or cooking up burgers, but at the end of the day, little stuff, big stuff, in-between stuff – God sees it all the same. I could be everyone’s first choice, and He wouldn’t love me any more. I could be everyone’s last choice, and He wouldn’t love me any less.
My writing could be bonkers bad, and that’s okay. That’s exactly how it’ll get better – moving forward particularly when things are not perfect, with grace.
As I continually seek His grace for the rest of my life, I hope, pun intended, to find more of myself and who I am meant to be, as Grace. Despite all of the highs and greatest achievements, despite the lows and desolate moments.
Thanks for joining me on my journey.
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