Domee Shi on Defying—and Exceeding—Parental Expectations
Ambition 2.0
Girlboss
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Girlboss Radio. I'm Avery, your new host. A little about me, I'm the founder |
| 0:11.4 | and CEO of Bloom, a workplace sign it's alt and c on a mission to build better workplaces |
| 0:15.5 | for everyone. I believe that work should work for all of us, and I'm here to bring you |
| 0:20.5 | the real and raw conversations with some of the world's most impressive and interesting |
| 0:24.9 | women and get to the bottom of what success really means to them. Today I'm speaking with |
| 0:29.6 | Domey Shee, an Oscar-winning filmmaker and fellow Toronto native. We're talking about |
| 0:33.9 | living up to parental expectations, puberty, random celebrity run-ins at the Oscars, and |
| 0:39.2 | more. Let's get into it. Domey, thank you so much for joining me and the community |
| 0:55.7 | at Girlboss today. We are so excited to learn a little bit more about the career behind |
| 1:01.5 | the woman who's done so much in her professional journey. I have a lot of my own personal questions |
| 1:07.9 | because I've been obsessed with the work that you've been doing over the years, but most |
| 1:11.9 | specifically, at Girlboss we're all about redefining success on our own terms. And what I wanted |
| 1:19.7 | to learn from your perspective is what is success mean to you? Yeah, I guess it's so different |
| 1:26.2 | for everybody, but success for me is just being able to do what I love and getting paid |
| 1:32.2 | good money for it. Yes, get that money 100%. And I'm curious, has your definition of success |
| 1:42.7 | changed over the years? When I was younger, I equated success more to do its status, maybe |
| 1:50.3 | also what other people thought of success was, especially like my parents, but I think as we |
| 1:57.5 | get older, it just becomes a more personal definition. And yeah, I mentioned money, but really, |
| 2:04.2 | it's just if I can just continue drawing and telling stories for the rest of my life, I would be |
| 2:11.5 | very happy. And I feel like that would be a successful life. Absolutely, totally. And I think |
| 2:17.8 | being fairly compensated for the work you do is in line with that, right? So I know your parents |
| 2:23.4 | were supportive of you pursuing the arts for your career. And I know that this is true mainly |
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