What Is Shauna Swerland's Earliest Memory of Leading?

Fuel Talent founder Shauna Swerland jokes, on What Fuels You, that she was born a leader. The earliest memory she gives interviewer Teri Citterman is running for student council in second grade. She lost. A best friend reminds her of the next one: in third grade she persuaded the school to allow auditions on the playground because she wanted to cast Annie. She appointed herself casting agent, and that is what they did at recess. She tells it as evidence that organizing other people started long before the recruiting career, the New York offices, and the Seattle firm she later founded.