This week, brand and communications strategist Gia Bagherpour joins Jordan Rizzieri to talk about her life and career.
Gia discuss how her Dad influenced her first career desires (1:46 ) and how a school assignment ignited her desire for marketing (2:45 ). She reminisces about the diversity of attending the University of Johannesburg (4:13 ) and what her marketing program was like. She followed up her undergraduate degree with an ad school program (8:21 ) and her internship there led to her first job (11:27 ). They discuss mentorship (13:00 ), what drove her as a young person (17:14 ), and refilling her creative well (21:44 ).
Eventually she and her husband left South Africa for the US (25:50 ), and she was instantly confronted with a new challenge: not being able to work for almost a year (27:08 ).  Once she was able to work, Gia ended up at an agency that would later employ Jordan (31:19 ), before setting out on her own (32:53 ).
She also ruminates on how becoming a mother has changed her relationship to her work, and how she herself has changed (39:37 ).

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