Valeria and I met 7 years ago (holy shit- we are old) in our Freshman Seminar at Loyola Marymount University. In the Western pocket of Los Angeles I think we were drawn to each other because of our out of place energy. Eventually that first semester ended and we both would announce over the phone to our loved ones that it was indeed time for us to get the fuck out of LMU. Only difference is she would actually leave and I would end up staying and changing my major 6 times.
Fast forward 7 years and while our paths were completely different we've ended up in kind of the same place : trying to figure out maybe the same problem we were trying to figure out back then, how to use our creative energy in a world that might just continue to tell us that it's going to be hard and not worthwhile.
So in this episode Valeria and I sat down to talk about:
- How she decided to leave the traditional route of a 4 year school and go to design school instead.
- How that altered her career path and what she did after we parted ways after that first year at LMU.
- Our obsession with New Girl
- How to set rates and find work
- How we look at our decisions from back then 7 years ago and how they've helped our hindered us now
- And a lot more ranting.
Follow Valeria on Instagram @valeriaponcej and listen to her podcast ' Tired and Emotional Podcast' here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tiredandemotionalpod/id1488275130.