Why Did Mikayla Nogueira Lose Her Ulta Beauty Job, a Bank Onboarding, and Her Master's Program on the Same Day?

After college, Mikayla Nogueira had a job offer to work in an HR department at a bank. She tells Jay Shetty she would have been miserable there, because a creative person who is not using that creativity has a hard time. Jay Shetty then asks about the jump from her best day at Ulta to her worst day, when 2020 arrived and COVID hit.

She says that day is one nobody will forget. She was working at Ulta Beauty, getting a master's degree, and being onboarded for the HR position, and she felt confident about her future. Then Ulta Beauty shut down across the country, the bank shut down the program because of uncertainty about COVID, and the master's program shut down entirely instead of going remote. She lost everything in one day. She was terrified. Her mom came in and said her student loans had just been delivered. She was 21, crying, and did not know what she would do next.