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What If Your Biggest Rejection Became Your Greatest Opportunity?
Inspiring Women with Laurie McGrawJune 10, 2025

What If Your Biggest Rejection Became Your Greatest Opportunity?

Colleen Bowman had it all planned out: nutrition degree, dietetics internship, help people get healthy. Then she got rejected. Twice. "My grades weren't 100% of everybody else's," she admits. "I had a little too much fun in college." But here's the twist—that "fun" taught her something her textbooks couldn't: how to build relationships that matter.

In this clip from Inspiring Women with Laurie McGraw, Colleen shares how rejection redirected her entire career path. From nutrition to HR, from wellness programs to running benefits for a Fortune 500 portfolio, she learned that sometimes the path you didn't plan is exactly where you're meant to be.

Today, she oversees hundreds of millions in benefits spending. But she'll tell you: it all started with building connections at BU.

Check out the full conversation to hear how she turned rejection into rocket fuel, and why your biggest "failure" might be setting you up for something better.

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This episode of Inspiring Women with Laurie McGraw was recorded at the Transcarent Voyages Conference.

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