Meghan Sturges is VP Management Supervisor @ SaatchiNY. If you’re interested in learning more about Meghan, feel free to check out her LinkedIn Page or watch a video of how fast she can run. Photos taken by VP Management Supervisor Amy Carlstead.

1. What do you do at Saatchi & Saatchi?

Account Team. I help sell things.

2. What was your first job?

The summer of my sophomore year in high school, I was the grocery check-out person at Delchamps Grocery store in Mobile, Alabama. I always thought it would be fun to use the scanner. It’s not – especially when the scanner doesn’t work and a huge line forms. People get cranky quickly.

3. If you weren’t at Saatchi & Saatchi, what profession would you most like to try?

A Formula 1 racecar driver.

4. What motivates you most?

Passion for doing what I believe in, the opportunity to help others succeed, and the chance to win. I really like winning.

5. What blogs, magazines, books, papers or websites can you not live without?

NYTimes.com, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Sunday NY Times, NPR

6. What are your Lovemarks?

NY Times, WZEW 92.1 – The Sound of Mobile, NPR – All Songs Considered Podcast, University of Alabama Football

7. What’s your best “nothing is impossible” story?

Building a weather-activated billboard with a giant Cadbury Crème Egg, a bucket to collect snow and a fan blade.

8. What is your favorite place in the world? Why?

I have three:

• New York City: I love the diversity and energy.
• Paris, France: It’s where I had my most memorable vacation
• Moss Point, Mississippi: It’s where I feel at home, especially when enjoying BBQ from The Shed.

9. Who do you most aspire to be like?

I aspire to have my dad’s level-headedness, my mom’s compassion, and my brother’s intelligence.

10. If stranded on a deserted island and you could bring only one thing, what would it be?

It would have to be SPF-50 sunscreen because I’m ghost white, like milk toast.

11. Tell us something surprising about yourself.

I have Restless Leg Syndrome. It’s legit and really annoying.

12. What’s your DOT?

To walk or use public transportation as often as possible.

13. What’s your favorite creative pursuit?

Learning to play the guitar.

14. What led you on the path you’re on today?

An unpaid internship my junior year of college at a creative agency called Play in Richmond, VA. Even though I wasn’t making any money, I loved going to work every day and being surrounded by such an eclectic, smart, interesting and inspiring cast of characters. Not much has changed!

15. Do you have a motto?

Live with no regrets.

16. What do you do for fun?

Spend time with people who make me laugh.

17. What’s your favorite client story?

When I had to act as the client for three months during my client’s maternity leave. It was an eye-opening experience to see how little time clients actually spend thinking about advertising – because they have so many other things to thing about…like extruders on the production line.

18. What’s your favorite thing to do in NY?

My favorite thing to do in New York is to fly into it – especially taking the approach that brings you straight up the east side, flying over Brooklyn with Manhattan visible from the left side of the airplane. I love cruising past Manhattan from that viewpoint, then circling over CitiField and Flushing Meadows park right in to LaGuardia. Every time I come back after traveling, I feel lucky to live in such an amazing city.

19. Who is your favorite artist/musician/designer?

Mostly musicians – Stevie Ray Vaughn, Albert King, Bonnie Raitt, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Bruce Springsteen, M. Ward, Van Morrison, Wilco, Lyle Lovett, Billie Holiday, Paul Desmond, Jenny Lewis, Brandi Carlile, Etta James, and (most recently) Antoine Dodson and the Gregory Brothers

20. When’s the last time you gave a standing ovation?

I took my mom to see Million Dollar Quartet on Broadway, and we gave them a standing O.

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