Playing Games, Turbulent Times, and Questionable Work Situations ft. Olivia Perez

We Met At Acme

Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.2 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We Met At Acme Episode 12 features Olivia Perez, founder of @frndofafrnd and @forbes contributer. In this episode, we discuss game playing, questionable work situations, how turbulant times can sometimes help relationships, and more!

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to We Met It At Me. This is episode 13 and we are here with
0:08.5	friend of a friend founder and Forbes contributor Olivia Perez. Hi! We're so so
0:17.5	happy to have you here. Not only is Olivia a girl boss but she also is just
0:22.9	an amazing girl and like a girl's girl and just not someone that like is
0:27.8	scary at mean so thank you for being that. Thank you. I would hate to be scary
0:32.8	in mean. So how did you get into what you do where you from? Give us the basics.
0:40.2	Okay I'll give you the spark notes of my life. I grew up in LA and then when I was 18 I
0:47.1	got into NYU and I moved here for school so I was there for four years and I've
0:51.1	been in New York now for six. I stayed after I graduated but I studied fashion
0:55.2	journalism in college and I was just really really interested in working at a
1:00.2	young age so I was interning really young I was at Teen Vogue in our mes and
1:03.9	like all these other kind of like journalism fashion places in my career and
1:08.3	then halfway through college I decided to start my own thing which was
1:13.2	friend of a friend and it was ideally just a community where people could come
1:17.0	on and talk about things that they were discovering whether it was a new
1:20.8	beauty product a new restaurant but all kind of along the vein of undiscovered
1:25.3	gems we never wanted to be a place that was just kind of repeating what every
1:29.2	other all it was writing about so I've been running that for about two and a
1:32.8	half years now and then I also contribute to Forbes just as a writer for them
1:36.4	kind of doing the same content because they don't really have a lifestyle
1:40.4	platform yet so working through that with them. Totally and you're from LA
1:44.3	originally. Yes. Which part of LA? I grew up in Beverly Hills
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