Yazhi Smith (Vista Equity Partners)
Episode 60 · January 28th, 2021 · 44 mins 43 secs
About this Episode
In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Yazhi talk about:
- How Yazhi doesn't know what "old" means ;)
- A life story framed as Lord of the Rings
- Growing up with stereotypical Asian parental expectations, coloring within the lines
- >>recordscratch>> growing up in FIJI?! (Kendall spends 5 minutes squee-ing)
- rachel's turn to squee, someone who sees the value of useful error logging :heart-eyes:
- A first taste of travel in the US
- Personal development smorgasbord at IBM
- Personal life upheaval driving big changes, no more coloring inside the lines
- Moving to the US and starting an IT consulting company
- When people usually rebel, how much of a rule-follower Kendall is
- Discovering America with gusto, FREE SODA REFILLS :D
- Trying out the stay-at-home mom thing and not being able to keep still
- Pivoting to building businesses from home
- Remembering you're working with actual people, not just resources
- Managing resistance to new process implementation through curiosity and humility
- How yet again, the problem is people
- Getting over yourself to get the job done
- The Rules and how to ignore them, for the sake of the children
- Why you should own goats
You can find Yazhi on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yazhi/
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3