Stephanie Camello

In summer of 2012 I was picking up my German foreign exchange student pen pal at the LAX airport. After he came off the plane I was going to drive him to his dorm, so naturally we made a pit stop at at the restroom before the drive. So I'm on my way out of the bathroom when a lady stops me and asks if she could use my phone to make a quick call since her phone died. Now she had 2 dogs with her and was sort of hiding in the alcove of the bathroom walkway like she didn't want to be seen or like she was hiding. I was basically face to face with her while she dialed or texted, I don't even know because she deleted the number or whatever she did so I couldn't call it back. She had a hat on so I couldn't get a great look, but to me she looked like the actress Hilary Swank. So I said, ''Hey you kinda look like Hilary Swank'' just to make small talk, but then she said "I am." So I'm in shock at that point, but I think I said something like ...

It's the second Friday in Lent already and that means you get your second Friday Fish Dish recipe! This is a recipe Stephanie Camello is very fond of. It's her grandmother's recipe that she loves eating and she thinks you'll love it too. This is an entire meal that starts with "Pasta Camello," then tilapia then finishes with a light salad.  Put olive oil covering the bottom of the skillet and add 4 cloves of chopped garlic and cook until it sizzles. Then add peeled and diced Roma tomatoes (about 12 for a pound of pasta). Now start smashing the tomatoes down using the back side of a spatula to desired consistency. Add capers, salt to taste, fresh basil leaves and pine nuts. Add as much or as little as you want! Stir it all in then put this sauce on the pasta once it's done cooking. Spaghetti tastes best with this sauce. Fish time! This is pretty easy because you just need to buy a few pieces of tilapia and cook it on the skillet for 10 minutes. The topping...

Stephanie Camello recalls: Jeopardy! was always my favorite show from the time I was a kid. Around 2010 my parents and I wanted to see a live show taping, so we registered on their site for free tickets to see a live taping out in Burbank. After we arrived we waited about an hour or so to be seated after our group had a small tour of the studio lot and the building it where it was taped. Then we were seated and the taping prep began. Before the taping actually began the announcer, Johnny Gilbert, came out to give us a rundown of what would happen, when to clap and general rules about taping live TV along with some cool anecdotes about past audiences and players and some side jokes to keep our energy up. Then Alex Trebek came out to introduce himself to us (there were probably a maximum of 50 people in the audience) and that's when we discovered that Alex Trebek was the most down to earth, honest to goodness nicest person to host a TV show. Alex told us some jokes, took a few audie...

If you've ever purchased a product from Amazon, you've likely had an exceptional experience. You've also likely heard that Amazon is worth over $1.5 trillion, making it the 3rd largest company in the world. So how did they manage to pull that off!? Stephanie Camello explains some key factors she thinks made Amazon so incredibly successful. Customer-Driven 1) Led by their fearless leader Jeff Bezos since 1994, the executive team has made some very smart business decisions over the years that are continuing to pay off. 2) Literally anything you could think of to buy can be found on their site. They buy products and make their own with their unique private label brand name called "Amazon Basics". 3) Their customer service is superb and set the bar for everyone else. 4) They provide extremely quick delivery turn around times. 5) Their logistics system is unparalleled. They know exactly when your package will get to you and they have warehouses and huge distribution c...

Stephanie Camello has been a marketing data analyst for over 8 years. Now she's here to give you 10 tips on how to become a successful data analyst yourself! 1) Start out by landing an internship or entry-level data analyst job either working for a large company or for an ad agency that does marketing for large companies. 2) Find an analytics mentor to guide you as you learn more about the day to day of an analyst. 3) Seek out projects that will let you stretch your legs and give you practice working with raw data. 4) Always let the data speak for itself. Never alter the data to someone's liking, simply report the facts. 5) Establish yourself as reputable. No one will trust an analyst who is inaccurate or sloppy with the numbers. 6) Learn as many analytics tools as you can. Excel and Tableau are the go-to tools that will be expected of most analysts. PowerBI, Google Analytics, any Google marketing tool are good to know as well. The more tools you master, the more diversified yo...

Stephanie Camello has been a data analyst in the marketing field for over 8 years. She has worked with marketing data across multiple industries and for various advertising agencies. And now she's here to help you with tips on how to be a great data analyst!  You may be considering a new career after the being negatively impacted by the pandemic. Or maybe you want to change careers for personal career growth. Whatever your reasons, here are Stephanie Camello's top 10 tips on how to create an analytics report as a data analyst! 1) If you are brand new to analytics, start with securing an internship in the field in any industry you prefer. Note though that analytics in finance is very different from analytics in marketing or medicine. Since Stephanie's specialty is in marketing analytics, you will get more of that side of the analytics coin in this post.  2) The key to knowing what to do with millions of rows of data is to first organize and "clean" the data. If yo...

Family Guy and American Dad are similar in their style, approach and comedy. But each are successful in their own way. Stephanie Camello breaks down the reasons to watch both and what each has to offer to its audiences. Family Guy - This is the original Seth MacFarlane masterpiece; it's what really brought fame to his name. - It started in 1999 and went head-to-head with The Simpsons which by that time had been around for 10 years. And it managed to be successful after some time and gain its own following. - There are many, many characters with their own catch phrases or accents, most of which are voiced by a handful of voice actors, MacFarlane voicing the most characters, but is most famous for Peter, Stewie and Quagmire. - Dirty jokes, innuendos, inappropriate jokes that we laugh at because they are true observations of society. It can also be very gratuitous in nature. - Specific characteristics tied to each character. - Main characters are voiced by actors like Mila Kunis, A...

To Stephanie Camello , The Orville encompasses 3 key elements that make it not only successful and likable, but reminiscent of timeless space classics. Together, the perfect trifecta of Star Wars and Star Trek all wrapped snugly in Seth MacFarlane's comedic style make this the best space dramedy of our time. Star Wars Elements 1) Relationship drama exists between the leads. The ongoing relationship between Captain Ed Mercer and Commander Kelly Grayson is the main ongoing relationship tug-of-war. The series begins with them married but Kelly cheats on Ed and the marriage is dissolved. However when Kelly joins Ed's ship as lead Commander a year later, the dynamic goes from awkward sarcastic anger from Ed to remorse from Kelly to a "will they, won't they" relationship that ultimately ends up with them becoming good friends as they do their jobs together on the ship. This is quite similar to the relationship in Star Wars between Princess Leia and Han Solo. Whi...

Inspired by her love of horror films, Stephanie Camello showcases a few of the most famous and haunted buildings in America! Take a look and tell us in the comments which one you find to be the most frightening! The Queen Mary Long Beach, California This luxury liner from the 1930s has many stories of ghosts. It is said that 49 deaths were recorded on board and that 150 spirits haunt the ship. One person died in the boiler room after being crushed by a watertight door and still haunts the engine and boiler rooms. Ghost woman found dancing in white in one of the suites. Ghost children wandering the pool deck. Overall you can find flickering lights, creepy noises, whispering voices and even ghost sightings pretty much all over this creepy ship! Skirvin Hotel Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Owner Bill Skirvin had an affair with a maid in the 1920s and she became pregnant. He locked her up in a room on the 10th story and she became depressed and distraught. After giving birth, she still had to sta...

Now that it is officially the season of Lent, it's time to dust off some of those old fish recipes and cook some delicious fish dishes on Fridays! Let's go! Stephanie Camello suggests looking at the YouTube channel called Orsara Recipes .  The host is an adorably hilarious Italian gentleman who shows you step by step how to cook some authentic and genuine Italian dishes. The one being featured today is Pasta con le Sarde (Pasta with Sardines). Rundown: it's spaghetti with a sardine fish sauce that contains bits of sardines, sautéed onions, a little Chardonnay, pine nuts, tomato paste and a few strands of saffron. It's a fish sauce that is not at all fishy and tastes light but is filling! Tasty and authentic! Enjoy your first Lenten Friday Fish Dish!

Alabama - Native American Choctaw name meaning “vegetation gatherer.” Alaska - Aleut language translates “Alaska” to “the object toward which the action of the sea is directed.” Arizona - Spanish word “Arizonac” which has origins from the Native American O’odham tribe’s word meaning “small spring.” Arkansas - The French pronunciation of the Quapawa Indians word for which the Algonquin tribe referred to as “akansa.” The French pronunciation was “Arcansas.” The reason we don’t say the “S” is because on an 1881 act passed by the state to solve a dispute between two senators who disputed over the pronunciation. We now pronounce it the French way with the silent “S.” California - The name of an island in a Spanish 16th Century novel for which the Spanish explorers named the land they thought was an island. Turns out it was what we think of today as the state of California! Colorado - Named after the C...

Why Seth MacFarlane Is This Generation’s Mel Blanc And Then Some By Stephanie Camello I’ve always loved Seth MacFarlane , but recently I’ve really come to see that he’s talented in a way that most of us can only dream of. And he’s humble about it too! Like Hollywood cartoon voice legend Mel Blanc (of Looney Tunes and Flintstones fame, among others), Seth MacFarlane has created dozens of voices for characters on multiple TV cartoon shows. But wait, there’s so much more and I’m listing all the reasons to give total respect to this behemoth of talent that walks among us, the one and only, Seth MacFarlane (maybe that’s a little much, but hey, I’m a super fan)! Here are some reasons WHY he’s one of the most talented people in Hollywood: He writes, directs and produces his own shows (Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, Ted, The Orville, A Million Ways to Die in the West, among others). He performs over half of all the male voices on all his shows, mo...