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Trunk grew up in Chicago"s northern suburbs before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a professional beach volleyball player.
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Her work focuses on the intersection of work and life. Trunk is the author of the books Brazen ist: The New Rules for Success, The New American Dream: A Blueprint for a New Path to Success, and The Power of Mentors: The Guide to Finding and Learning from Your Ideal Mentor. She blogged at Brazen ist before leaving that company.
She now runs Quistic, her latest start-up venture—an education company—and maintains an eponymous blog featuring career advice.
Trunk wrote a column for the Boston Globe that was syndicated in 200 newspapers across the United States. She is a graduate of Brandeis University.
Trunk was a resident of New York City during the September 11 attacks. She moved to Madison, Wisconsin in 2006, before relocating to a farm in Darlington, Wisconsin.
Business According to Trunk, she spent ten years as a marketing executive in the software industry.
She also says she started the companies math.com, ECityDeals, and Brazen ist. Trunk’s decisions about her own career have been written about in Time and The Guardian. In September 2009, Trunk was replaced as Chief Executive Officer of Brazen ist.
She stated, "When the company was clearly moving too fast for me to keep up as Chief Executive Officer, I badgered another board member to be Chief Executive Officer. He told me a number of reasons why that wouldn’t work – he had had two huge exits and he wasn’t planning to be Chief Executive Officer again, and another company wanted him to be Chief Executive Officer, and he wants to watch his kids play football.
These are all good reasons that I overcame, and I got him to agree to be interim Chief Executive Officer." in the New York Times, Marci Alboher called Trunk "one of the most popular career writers around.".
