Hey, it's Sophia Amruzzo, founder and CEO of Girl Boss, and as I think you know, this is Girl Boss radio.

We talk about the wins, losses, and insights learned on the winding road to or

just around success. And this week, and likely for the foreseeable future, I'll be recording Girl Boss Radio remotely,

which means I'm in this, I mean home office is an overstatement.

It's a guest bedroom, and it's a mess.

It looks like the last department I inhabited and there's furniture and boxes everywhere

but all that matters is that the show sounds good so So that's our goal here.

So thanks for sticking with us and listening each week.

My hope is to bring some joy, levity to your day

and hopefully some inspiration from some of these amazing women that

we're also lucky to hear from.

On to today's show this week, I am joined by a very special guest, Victoria Modesta.

She's a bionic pop star, model, avant-garde performance artist and creative director whose work continues to

challenge the way disability and differently-abled women are perceived in today's

world. Stay tuned for my illuminating conversation with Victoria.

We talk about her against all odds upbringing that began in Soviet Latvia,

her advice for creatives and entrepreneurs on how to navigate tough times like this global pandemic and how to create a

non-traditional career path for yourself. You don't want to miss it. Welcome to Girl Boss Radio Pandemic Edition.

I know, wow, that sounds very chic. If there was anyone who is built to survive something like this I think it's you

How are you fairing? Yeah, you know it's been a very very tricky and strange but like kind of insightful time because you know a lot of the

things that are happening in the world right now are sort of very similar to some of

the personal processes that I went through kind of earlier in my life like through going in and out of hospital through like you know having moments where perhaps like I was bedbound or whatever situations that could have happened to me and

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