Jade Makana

Greater Seattle Area United States

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Three times, my career life has changed. The first time was the Flying Fish Epiphany which occurred in 2005. It is so named because it occurred on a regular Friday night at a bar called Flying Fish in Belltown, during a time period I now think of as my Coors Light years. Like any twenty-something single girl, I had no agenda for the evening but to drink beer, dance to hip hop, and meet boys who would ask for my number and then never call me (there was no texting in the Coors Light years.) But that night, something was different. As I shimmed to the hip hop music in a bad triangle top from Forever 21 at the bar (there was no Tinder in the Coors Light years) I couldn’t stop thinking ab...