Client S p o tl ight | Becky Schultz
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LIVING UP TO THE UPERWOMAN MYTH WORDS BY: SARAH HENDERSON
“I’ve always felt that if you’re not fulfilling all of your needs as an individual, you can never truly be the best version of yourself,” starts Becky Schultz, long-time Dickens Mitchener client. “If a piece of me is missing, I can’t be the best wife or the best mom or even the best employee. That’s why it’s so important for me to have a creative outlet.” By day, Becky is the Marketing Strategy Executive for Merchant Services at Bank of America. By night, she’s the Executive Director of the Charlotte-based Three Bone Theatre. On top of both of those roles, Becky is a full-time wife and mother to her husband, Ben, and their six-year-old son, Max. If ever there was an example of someone living up to the Superwoman myth of “having it all, doing it all, and being it all,” Becky would surely be it. “I’d refer to myself as an ‘accidental banker,’” says Becky. “When I went to school, I was studying to be in the television industry – double majoring in sociology and media management while minoring in entertainment.” Becky had always been involved in the arts community but was particularly interested in the business side. “Basically, my dream was to one day run MTV,” she sums up. But because Becky graduated in December, instead of the traditional midyear graduation timeframe, not that many companies were hiring. “So, I went to an interview on campus with General Electric because (at the time) 6
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