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Good morning, this is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's episode is going to be a slightly longer one, part of the

series where I interview fascinating people about how they take their days from great to awesome,

and any advice they have for the rest of us. So today I'm delighted to welcome Hima Vingo Achea

to Before Breakfast. She is the author of several books, including Listen Like You Mean It, Rest Easy, and

The Life Audit, a step-by-stead guide to discovering your goals and building the life you want.

So, Jimena, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, so excited to have you on.

Why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself? Yeah, so I'm a user researcher,

which we can get into a little bit about yourself. Yeah. So I'm a user researcher, which we can get into a little bit,

but it informs a lot of the writing that I do. So I've worked at several big tech companies.

And I write and I illustrate, have several nonfiction books, and I'm actually also working on some novels.

Oh, wonderful. I'm so excited about that and can't wait to read it. So tell us, yeah, about user experience and what this means for

people. Yeah, so a user research, I like to think of it as one of the more people-friendly roles in

tech. So essentially, we're there to translate what do people really need?

What are users really need from the products that we're building?

And we're kind of a voice for the people.

So rather than have someone say, like, hey, I have this great design idea, let's just build it.

The user researcher is really the intermediary to say, like, let's actually go talk to some people, see what they need,

see how this fits into their world or doesn't, make sure it's usable, beautifully designed,

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