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The Futur with Chris Do

020 - The Pursuit of a Creative Life — with Jennet Liaw

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9998 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Jennet Liaw is more than just a designer. She's a role model to many especially Asian American women who dream of following their dreams versus doing the responsible thing. On this show, she shares feelings about going against the grain and finding success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Even accepting that you're going to pursue a creative job is a whole journey in itself.

0:05.0

And I will be honest, like sometimes I look at other people and I'm not specifically like non-Asians or whatever,

0:10.0

but people who maybe didn't grow up with the exact same background as me, and I'm quite jealous.

0:16.0

It's very American, I think, to beiao, and as you might have deduced, we're going to be getting into some personal stuff that I think will really resonate with our audience.

0:40.0

For those of you that don't know who Jeanette is, she's a product graphic designer at Nike, a job which she's had since late 2015.

0:49.0

But to her tens of thousands of followers on Instagram.

0:54.0

Jeanette is more than that.

0:58.4

She's a role model, a cligrapher and sometimes artist poet,

1:04.0

where she's crafting beautiful, quirky ideas and fun sentiments like, tweet others the way you want to be tweeted.

1:07.0

Or, if a tear falls from your face,

1:10.0

but there's no emoji for it. Do you really feel anything?

1:14.6

By perusing her Instagram feed, you get a sense of her personal style.

1:18.8

She's a very stylish modern woman, often dresses in sports wear cool sneakers and is almost always

1:25.3

monochromatic. Who are you and where are you from? I'm a nobody who lives in

1:31.7

Portland Oregon now I used to be from Bay Area, LA, California

1:36.3

girl at heart, but I'm a designer. I work in a lot of different mediums and for a lot of different

1:41.6

things, but currently I'm employed full time at Nike.

1:44.0

Whoa you're employed full time at Nike.

1:46.0

That's like a killer job.

1:48.0

Like everybody wants to work at Nike right?

1:50.0

It's a quote-unquote dream job.

1:51.0

It is a dream job.

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