"Rediscover early skills and channel them into new work Food blogger Vani Hari ('Food Babe') recounts that she was a nationally ranked high school debater who spent summers doing research at Dartmouth, then buried those skills during years in corporate consulting. After a health crisis forced her to redesign her lifestyle, she found that the same research and advocacy instincts that made her a debater — 'I quit the cheerleading team to join the debate team' — became the engine of her food-activism blog, which eventually compelled major food companies to change their marketing. The lesson: skills you developed early and then shelved rarely disappear; mapping them onto a problem you care about can unlock an unexpectedly powerful career. Source: Vani Hari (guest) and Marie Forleo, MarieTV, Q&A Tuesday"