Reflection - The Life and Career of Brand and Communications Strategist, Gia Bagherpour

Don't Talk To Me About Work

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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