The Brain Gain

Episode 3: APRIL GOURDIE: life at Allbirds HQ, third culture kid realities, and life in space

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In this interview we traverse the topics of:

  • Pressures of living and breathing the frenzied culture of San Francisco and what its like to work inside a unicorn company (with kiwi roots) valued at $1.6B.
  • Mental wellbeing and meditation and the role of adrenaline (or lack thereof) in the creative design process.
  • The nuances of being a “third culture kid” and what this means in the context of tilting into Aotearoa.
  • Your personal identity v1 + v2 in terms of your ‘product development’, who is your 'user base' when you have a major update to release as a returned Brain Gainer.
  • April’s Space Book, an amazing artifact of COVID x CREATIVE times, that cuts to the core of what kind of world we imagine for ourselves and what it means to time travel…Creative optimism at its finest.
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