Cafe con Pam Episode 240

240 - On Choosing Joy Over Career with Maria Brito

240 - On Choosing Joy Over Career with Maria Brito240 - On Choosing Joy Over Career with Maria Brito

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Cafe con Pam Episode 240

240 - On Choosing Joy Over Career with Maria Brito

January 23, 2022 Pam Covarrubias View the website

Listeners, we're back this week with Maria Brito.

Maria Brito is an award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, author, and curator. A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela. Brito has been selected by Complex Magazine as one of the 20 Power Players in the Art World she was named by ARTNEWS as one of the visionaries who gets to shape the art world.

She has written for publications such as Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, Elle, Forbes, Artnet, Cultured Magazine, Departures, and the Gulf Coast Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from the University of Houston, Texas. For several years, Maria has taught her creativity course in companies and, in 2019, she launched “Jumpstart”, an online program on creativity for entrepreneurs based on years of research and observation in both the areas of business and art.

In 2019 she created and hosted "The "C" Files with Maria Brito", a TV and streaming series for PBS's new station "ALL ARTS".

Maria and her projects have been featured extensively in national and international publications including The New York Times Style Section, T: The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, W Magazine, ELLE Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Observer, The Daily Beast, The Economist, Interview Magazine, VOGUE and more.

She’s the author of “How Creativity Rules The World” (HarperCollins March 15, 2022).

During our conversation, we talked about:

Leaving Venezuela to go to Harvard
Navigating change
Making a decision to switch careers
Her upcoming book
And more...

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Relevant Timestamps:

08:18 - Growing up

10:37 - ‘Giving up her dreams’

13:04 - Mourn that talent & don’t have regrets

17:31 - Leaving her country

20:52 - Culture shock

23:31 - Moving to NY

27:16 - Her ‘dark ages’

35:03 - Show me what are my talents

39:22 - Pregnancy as a catalist

43:04 - The art business