Episode 9 : Gintel Gee
“If you’re not learning you’re kinda not living. Life is all about how you evolve over time. The world is always changing, there’s always new ideas out there and if you’re able to relate or see some potential in those ideas, that’s the best situation.”
Gintel Gee is a badass carving her own path. Raised in South Central LA by families with one focused on achieving excellence and one focused on finding hustle & joy, early in her life it became clear to her the importance to always be learning, to serve your community, and to chase what makes you happy. She’s a high performer who stands out in her industry of UX Design by gender and race. She’s real, she’s authentic and she’s wise. On this episode she shares how she keeps discovering her path, why being ready never happens, why we all love Beyonce, and that real life has both ups and downs and that’s where you find your confidence and true self. There’s so much good stuff in this episode you need to listen through to the end. It’s never been more of a challenge to pick an intro quote because the nuggets of wisdom just kept coming.
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SHOW NOTES: Things we mentioned:
UX Design
User Experiences
Follic Beauty Lab
Demographics
Internships
Women’s Streetwear
Dime Piece Brand
Club Flyers
Website Design
Cal State Channel Islands
Insane Asylum
How to Know if your House is Haunted
Student Senator
Political Science
Studio Art
Paris
Portfolio
Grind Gallery
Venice Beach, CA
Army Corporal
Cosby Show
Minister
Beauticians
Entrepreneurs
Fortune 500 Companies
Y-Combinator
Hello Possibility
Ted Talk
Ted Talk Referenced by Gintel
Charities
Women For Women
Financial Literacy
Dexterity
Pinterest
Tumbler
Blog
Hair Typing
Foundation
Clam App (reads you stories)
Fenty
Astrology
Doctor of Divinity
Morality
Therapy
Braille
Fashionable Old Ladies
Burning Man
Health Care & Health Insurance Debate
Breast Cancer
Go Fund Me
Renter’s Insurance
Act of God
South Central Los Angeles
Boyz N the Hood
Los Angeles Gang Culture
Muslim
Gentrification
Slashies
A Womanist
A Feminist
Privileges
L.A. Women’s March
Women’s Movement
Thanksgiving
Jezebel
Java Script
CS
Michelle Obama
Gandhi
Martin Luther King Jr
Malcolm X
Affirmations
Black History Month
Anime
Gender & Equality Studies
Beyonce
Jay-Z
George Bernard Shaw
Reincarnation
Reading Recommendations:
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Hooked (book about UX)
Who she looks up to:
Her Mom
Her Cousin
Sarah 'Huny' Young
Poala Mendoza
Beyonce
Favorite Quote:
George Bernard Shaw "men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving." From Man and Superman
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Production, Audio Engineering, & Editing by Jordan Duffy
Music by Joakim Karud @joakimkarudmusic