My Time, My Life

My Time, My Life

by Trinette Faint
Performing ArtsCareers
Season 2

Settling Into Your Creative Journey Without Settling with Emmy winner Georgette Pierre

My guest today is the Emmy-award winning producer and voice actor, Georgette Pierre. Georgette has been in the entertainment business for over a decade working in TV production at MTV, Nickelodeon (where she won an Emmy), at Netflix on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, with David Letterman, and she's worked on various award shows and commercials. Georgette served as the first sideline reporter for the inaugural 2018 NBA2K League, followed by a stint in Miami as a radio host for the Rickey Smiley Morning show on 99Jamz. Georgette is the creator and producer of the Black + Nuanced podcast, which centers the Black experience and the Black voice, dispelling the idea that Black people are monolithic, the relationship-themed web series “#DearGeorgette", and the interview series, “After Dark with Georgette Pierre”. She has bylines on various publications including Entertainment Weekly, VH1, MTV RapFix (now MTV Hip Hop), Blavity, and Killer Boombox. She recently wrapped hosting duties on Emerson College’s Alumni Association’s podcast, Making It Big in 30 Minutes, and is a creative producer consultant and voice actor through her company imprint, M.Y.S. Productions. When she’s not working, you can find Georgette excerpting her life on Twitter and Instagram. Her newsletter is entertaining too. Subscribe to “georgette’s musings” here. Follow Trinette on instagram at trinette.faint Visit Trinette's website trinettefaint.com My Time, My Life is a Floor 51 Production
S2 · E4
Nov 29, 2023
36:19

The Musicality of Poetry with Tricia Davis-Muffett

Today's guest is award winning poet and senior director of customer marketing for Google Workspace, Tricia Davis-Muffett. Tricia’s poetry has appeared in countless literary journals and she was featured in the 2022 Best New Poets anthology. Tricia has been a senior marketing executive for over 25 years, and before joining Google she was the director of public sector marketing for AWS (Amazon Web Services) and was the VP of Marketing at Booz Allen. Tricia’s latest book of poetry, The Alchemy of Yeast and Tears, published earlier this year, is a collection of original poetry that explores the griefs and joys of motherhood and daughterhood as she navigated her mother’s death along with the challenge of raising children in a broken world. Tricia holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota and is based in the Washington DC area, where she lives with her husband who practices environmental law. Tricia can be reached at info@patriciadavismuffett.com Follow Tricia on X @triciadm and on instagram @dmtricia Follow Trinette on instagram at trinette.faint Visit Trinette's website trinettefaint.com My Time, My Life is a Floor 51 Production
S2 · E3
Nov 21, 2023
32:20

The Challenges of Protecting Your IP as an Entrepreneur with Juliette Fassett

On the show today is Juliette Fassett, CEO of Happy Products, Inc. and creator of the ingenious tablet stand Flippy, designed by her husband optical scientist husband Bruce. Originally from upstate New York, Juliette has spent many years living outside of the United States, most notably teaching skiing in Japan and France. She's a consumer products entrepreneur and has developed businesses, products, and brands for over 30 years in the fashion, outdoor, pet and housewares categories. She has 3 patents and is an intellectual property activist with FairInventing.org On this episode Juliette discusses her harrowing experiences of having her Flippy IP stolen by the OnTel Corporation of Fairfield, NJ, and the emotional, financial, and mental toll this has had on her. She pulls back the curtain on the ugly unforeseen perils of creating a popular product and trying to prevent large, powerful corporations from replicating it without consent. Juliette's experience serves as a cautionary tale for any entrepreneurs needing to protect their IP. Juliette lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, rescued street dog Jojo, and rescued senior cat Will Feral. She also has an off-track American Thoroughbred named Granite. Note: The only legitimate channels to purchase Flippy are on her website, getflippy.com, and on Amazon. Juliette can be reached via LinkedIn. Follow Trinette's IG at trinette.faint Visit Trinette's website trinettefaint.com My Time, My Life is a Floor 51 Production
S2 · E2
Nov 15, 2023
32:35

Building Community After Nike with Jana Panfilio

My guest today is Jana Panfilio. Jana spent nearly 30 years at Nike in various roles including communications, marketing and sustainability, with a focus on innovation, and administration at Nike’s headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Jana worked with best-in-class insights and creative agencies around the world to bring new brand experiences and marketing initiatives to life and was responsible for setting the creative direction across Nike’s global sustainability teams through translating sustainability challenges into innovation opportunities through compelling visual imagery and meaningful content. Jana also worked with Nike's design community to foster and celebrate sustainable best-practices. She led the global athlete insights research to inform Nike's employee engagement strategy and Move to Zero campaign. Her work informed and inspired audiences across Nike and the industry-at-large to shift mindset and behavior. She built a reputation of integrity and trust across all levels, functions, and geographies. By building strong relationships, Jana kept her finger on the pulse of Nike’s global employee community. Jana believes that sport has the power to unify us, and coupled with a shared common goal and powerful inspiration, we can accomplish anything together! She’s a passionate Nike brand advocate and champion of human potential. After retiring from Nike in 2019, Jana quickly learned that her alumni teammates where applying their Nike innovation mindset to new endeavors and continuing to have a positive impact around the world. In that spirit, Jana founded 6453, a Nike global alumni community, in late 2020. 6453 ALUMNI is a nonprofit organization for former Nike employees and alumni sponsored athletes, created for the mutual benefit of their members. As an organization, their mission is to foster a vital, diverse and inclusive global community that embodies Nike’s ethos. Their vision is to leverage their connection and thought leadership to reimagine the future. Their purpose is to apply the values of sport and culture of innovation to amplify their collective impact. Visit Trinette's website: trinettefaint.com Follow Trinette on IG: trinette.faint
S2 · E1
Nov 8, 2023
26:55
Season 1

Living a Nomadic, Creative, Life, with Kristin Lajeunesse

My special guest is author, nomad, and CEO of KML Collective, Kristin Lajeunesse. A former full-time nomad of nearly ten consecutive years—having visited all 50 states and 21 countries—while working from wherever there was wifi, Kristin is a traditionally published author, 2x business owner, and public speaker. Hailing from a small town in upstate New York, Kristin grew up riding horses competitively. She majored in Equestrian Studies during undergrad before shifting her focus and receiving a Master's degree in Marketing Communications from Emerson College. Today, Kristin is the CEO of KML Collective, a boutique copywriting studio specializing in website copy for purpose-driven businesses and organizations. When Kristin's not working, you can find her dining out at a vegan eatery, salsa dancing, or geeking out on the latest sci-fi action/adventure flick. Kristin discusses building her brand, transitioning her career, and her travels across the country, living out of a van, and eating at vegan restaurants, which is the subject of her book, Will Travel for Vegan Food. Visit Trinette's website: trinettefaint.com Follow Trinette on IG: trinette.faint
S1 · E10
Oct 25, 2023
36:48

Talking Writing with Lynn Montagano

My guest today is Lynn Montagano, a contemporary romance author, podcaster and unapologetic football fan. Her latest release, The Keeper, is the first book in her new Royals and Legends series. The Keeper is a spicy sports romance with a twist. When Lynn isn't writing or recording her own weekly podcast, you can find her cheering loudly for her beloved New England Patriots. She lives in the Boston suburbs with her husband and three rescue cats. You can find her books at her website here. My Time, My Life is a Floor 51 Production. Visit Trinette's website: trinettefaint.com Follow Trinette on IG: trinette.faint
S1 · E9
Oct 17, 2023
26:39

Reconnecting with Culture and Finding Purpose with Javier Ramiro Velazco

My guest today is Javier Ramiro Velazco, educator and founder of the 100% agave mezcal, Bixhidú (pronounced Bee-shee-do). Founded in 2017, Bixhidú is made in Oaxaca, Mexico and produces ten expressions of ancestral and artisanal mezcal in small premium batches. Before founding Bixhidú, Javier worked in the entertainment business in Los Angeles for nearly a decade and ultimately found his purpose in teaching to brown and black students, in the LA public school system, which he has been doing for twenty years now. I talk to Javier about how he found the confidence to take the risk to launch his mezcal brand, what his students teach him about entrepreneurship, and how he balances the two, his recommended mezcal cocktail, and how creating Bixhidú reconnected him with his Mexican culture and the challenges he tackled as he created his brand, and much more. You can learn more about Bixhidú on instagram at bixhidumezcal, and, if you're in Los Angeles, you can buy it at Flask in Highland Park and BarKeeper in Silverlake. It will soon be available for nationwide distribution.
S1 · E8
Oct 11, 2023
28:14

Architecting Your Life With Agency, a Vibrant Talk with Academic, Dr. Melissa Blanco Borelli of Northwestern University

On this episode of My Time, My Life, I interview Dr. Melissa Blanco Borelli, Associate Professor of of Theatre and the Director of the Dance Program at Northwestern University. We discuss topics ranging from her being a first generation immigrant, to her living abroad, to risk taking in her career, and her choice to not have children, and much more. Dr. Borelli is a critical dance studies scholar, choreographer, and cultural critic. She has been on faculty at MIT, University of Surrey (UK), Royal Holloway, University of London (UK) and the University of Maryland, College Park.As an interdisciplinary scholar, her research interests are broad. They include Blackness in Latin America, critical dance studies, performative writing, popular dance on screen, Black performance theory, (Black) feminist (auto)ethnography, historiography, archives, and the digital humanities. She is the author of She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body which won the Dance Studies Association’s De la Torre Bueno Prize® for best book in dance studies in 2016. She is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen (2014).Dr. Borelli is affiliated faculty in Performance Studies at Northwestern, she is a polyglot (6 languages), plays the piano, and loves to run.You can read more about Dr. Borelli here and find her books here.
S1 · E7
Oct 4, 2023
49:55

Finding Your Voice

On this episode of My Time, My Life, I talk about finding your voice and give the below examples on how to do so.Take a walk without your phone or take a scenic drive in silence. Meditate. Keep a journal. Think about how you spend your time outside of work. What do you like to do when you have free time, and how do you feel when doing those things? Think about the people you follow on social media and ask yourself what is it about them that you like or aspire to. Take an afternoon and write the story of your life. Answer someone you trust honestly when they ask how you are doing. Be in touch at trinettefaint.com or on IG at trinette.faintThanks for listening!
S1 · E6
Oct 1, 2023
3:45

How To Be Creative When You Have A Day Job

In this episode of My Time, My Life, I talk about exercising creativity within the confines of a day job, and offer some tips and tricks that I've learned over the years. You can read the corresponding essay to this episode here. As always, please connect with me via my website trinettefaint.com if you have any questions or if you just want to say hello. Thanks so much for listening!
S1 · E5
Sep 18, 2023
6:57
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