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Episode 60: Yazhi Smith (Vista Equity Partners)
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Content provided by Rachel Perkins and Kendall Miller, Rachel Perkins, and Kendall Miller. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Rachel Perkins and Kendall Miller, Rachel Perkins, and Kendall Miller or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Yazhi talk about:
- How Yazhi doesn't know what "old" means ;)
- A life story framed as Lord of the Rings
- Growing up with stereotypical Asian parental expectations, coloring within the lines
- >>recordscratch>> growing up in FIJI?! (Kendall spends 5 minutes squee-ing)
- rachel's turn to squee, someone who sees the value of useful error logging :heart-eyes:
- A first taste of travel in the US
- Personal development smorgasbord at IBM
- Personal life upheaval driving big changes, no more coloring inside the lines
- Moving to the US and starting an IT consulting company
- When people usually rebel, how much of a rule-follower Kendall is
- Discovering America with gusto, FREE SODA REFILLS :D
- Trying out the stay-at-home mom thing and not being able to keep still
- Pivoting to building businesses from home
- Remembering you're working with actual people, not just resources
- Managing resistance to new process implementation through curiosity and humility
- How yet again, the problem is people
- Getting over yourself to get the job done
- The Rules and how to ignore them, for the sake of the children
- Why you should own goats
You can find Yazhi on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yazhi/
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
100 episodes
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Content provided by Rachel Perkins and Kendall Miller, Rachel Perkins, and Kendall Miller. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Rachel Perkins and Kendall Miller, Rachel Perkins, and Kendall Miller or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Yazhi talk about:
- How Yazhi doesn't know what "old" means ;)
- A life story framed as Lord of the Rings
- Growing up with stereotypical Asian parental expectations, coloring within the lines
- >>recordscratch>> growing up in FIJI?! (Kendall spends 5 minutes squee-ing)
- rachel's turn to squee, someone who sees the value of useful error logging :heart-eyes:
- A first taste of travel in the US
- Personal development smorgasbord at IBM
- Personal life upheaval driving big changes, no more coloring inside the lines
- Moving to the US and starting an IT consulting company
- When people usually rebel, how much of a rule-follower Kendall is
- Discovering America with gusto, FREE SODA REFILLS :D
- Trying out the stay-at-home mom thing and not being able to keep still
- Pivoting to building businesses from home
- Remembering you're working with actual people, not just resources
- Managing resistance to new process implementation through curiosity and humility
- How yet again, the problem is people
- Getting over yourself to get the job done
- The Rules and how to ignore them, for the sake of the children
- Why you should own goats
You can find Yazhi on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yazhi/
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
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