No matter who we are, young or old, black or white, every person has a story that can and should be told. Those at Odyssey provide others the platform to express their opinions and amplify their voices. Now it is time for some of those very special people -- the Assistant Managing Editors -- to have their voice heard.

What inspires you to be better than you were yesterday?

"The people around me. I'm competitive by nature because of my sports background, but in a healthy way. The people I'm around both inspire me and push me to achieve something that I didn't the day before. I also want to make the people I love proud of me. If we lived in a world where everything was done on an individual basis with no teamwork or competition involved, we would be stagnant individuals. LeBron James is LeBron James because he wants to be the best and elevate himself to the level of the 'greatest of all time' (hate to admit that as a Warriors fan, but it's true)." Angelina Matarozzi

What is more important, to have experience or a specific skill set?

"To me the two are equally yoked -- what is important is what you do with what you are given. If you are naturally skillful at something yet have no ambition to further that skill set or do anything with that talent, you have wasted an opportunity at greatness. Maybe I'm naive, but I believe that ambition can take you as far as you let it. 'To whom much is given much is required,' right?" Ashlyn Thompson

How does someone make sure they are not stagnant in their professional and personal life?

"You should always be looking for the next best thing. Yes, it is important to appreciate the simple things in life, but if you're not constantly wanting to grow, change, and be the best version of you that you can be, what are you living for? To make sure you are not stagnant in your business and professional life, you need to wake up every morning with a mission. This mission could be something small like, 'Give at least three people a compliment today.' Or, it could be something big, like, get promoted, or run my fastest mile yet. Either way, if you wake up with a mission, at the end of the day, you'll be able to rest easy knowing that you've lived your life with a purpose." Lindsey Gaterman

What is the biggest struggle you see yourself facing in the future?

"I naturally resist change, but I work really hard to change that! My favorite ways to improve my flexibility are solo travel and cooking. When I try both, nothing goes 100 percent my way, but I still seem to have the best time. I know the work I put in now will help me tackle (or roll with) any challenge that comes my way in the future. And I'm not offended if you don't want me to make you dinner." Shannon O'Brien

If you were in charge of the world for one day, what is something you would implement or change?

"I would require every restaurant to allow its patrons to add bacon to any menu item." Dillon Havens

What will be or has been your, "I made it," moment?

"My, 'I made it' moment isn't just one moment that has occurred or will occur. I feel like I'm constantly making it. Those three little words strung together to form what usually would be exhilaration of achieving a goal seem so final to me. Can you really just make it once? I don't think so. I think that every day I continue to make my goals come to fruition and then, after hitting them, I make new goals, better goals and strive for those. So, my 'I made it' moments are found in the crevices of accomplishing large and small goals because each one has propelled me forward to ask myself, what's my next aim? As long as I'm asking that question, I'm 'making it.'" Kamini Ramdeen

What is the best piece of motivation you have ever received and why?

"When I was an intern at ESPN NY, one of the marketing assistants -- and now the Senior Manager for Event Sponsorship at iHeartMedia -- had a great, quick conversation with me before I left my internship (and said it again to me when I worked at iHeartMedia with him two years later). He told me that he could tell I am someone who will push the envelope and do whatever I can to grow, and grow quickly, and that people will tell me not to move so fast. He said as long as I put in the work, upward growth is not a bad thing even if some people respond negatively to it.

He finished the second conversation (the one when I was at iHeart) by saying, 'just let the people around you know what your goals are, so when you rocket up as high as you can go people will want to be there with [you] and support what [you] do.' I think about this a lot whenever I think my goals are too lofty, especially since his path was very similar and he is now changing the way iHeart does events in the same way I want to influence digital media. Plus, my rocket landed at Odyssey, and I would have never made it here if I didn’t push the envelope the other places I have been." Allan Simon

What is your biggest passion right now?

"Right now, my biggest passion is figuring out how to leave my mark on the world. Living and working in New York, you see a lot of people trying to figure out how to do exactly the same thing. We're all running around trying to be heard above the noise. But I want to do something that works toward the greater good, something larger than myself. It could be what I'm doing right now, it could come later, but my greatest passion is to find a way to be able to look back on my life and know I helped. There's so much happening right now, I just want to figure out how to do my part." Jessica Troland