Laura Meyer landed her first job 10 years ago, at 17, the way most teenagers do — by wanting to work where her friends did. It was a serendipitous start to what has turned out to be a wildly successful career choice: Meyer has since won both the World Pizza Championship in pan pizza in 2013 in Parma, Italy and the 2014 International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas for non-traditional pizza.

"I never expected that at all, especially being the first time out. When you go to the competitions in Italy, you see people that have been making pizza their entire lives — longer than I've been alive — so it's intimidating," she says. "And then to hear your name be called, it's shocking. No one really knew who I was or what I was capable of. I knew I was good at it, but I didn't know."

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