A Midwestern girl with a different career path in mind stumbled into modeling when she was approached at the mall at age 13. Despite her initial disinterest in fashion, she has since been grateful for the opportunities it has provided her.
The speaker wanted to change the way plus size women were portrayed in the fashion industry, as the brands were mostly targeting women of color with zebra prints and gold. She wanted to introduce something new and exciting to the fashion industry and break the stereotypes.
Tiago Forte discusses his experience growing up in a picture-perfect town and seeking danger in his adult life, including living in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and the coast of Colombia.
The speaker shares their experience of feeling pressure to get a "real job" after college and deciding to work on a remote farm in exchange for room and board instead. They relate to the hosts' personal accounts of questionable decisions made in young adulthood.
In this podcast, the speaker talks about his personal experience of coming from an immigrant family where the epitome of what he could achieve was to get a stable job as a doctor or a lawyer. However, he had a passion for building robots, which nobody ever gave him permission to pursue. He also talks about how the idea of following your dreams might not work for everyone statistically.
The hosts encourage the younger demographic of listeners to embrace their entrepreneurial spirit and take advantage of the abundance of possibilities available for creating a successful online business, as long as they are willing to get serious and ask themselves what they truly want in life.