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Mychel Peoples Is Open to New Experiences, and Fascinated by Ancestral Ones
In Episode 10 of #BlackTea, we chat across the pond with the account director and master's degree candidate
This episode is exciting on so many levels. It’s our 10th episode! Our little baby show is starting to grow up and get curious about her body. Mychel Peoples is in London getting her master’s in art and politics. (Semi-ironic, since if she could change one thing about advertising, it’d be the politics.) Still, she makes space to chat with us about how she is handling two lockdowns—New York and London—with grace, and blows my mind expressing how using the time to earn a whole degree was in part “just another productive thing to do.”
We find out how she got the nudge from her mother to get into advertising (Mamma knows, chile), and Mychel advocates for more training and less testing in the industry environment. We also discuss her self-guided Bridgerton running tours around London, learning about ancestry, and crying through High on the Hog. Plus, she introduces us to our collective dream job title: CMO at Whatever Brand I Feel Like.
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