Episode 4

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24th Sep 2022

SZN II, Episode Four - ISSA Minisode - All The Feels On Adobe Buying Figma & Why Being Tool Agnostic Is Better For Your Tech Career

This is SZN II, Episode Three of the Talk Your SAAS show!


Here's what you'll learn in the episode: 

  • My feelings on Adobe buying Figma for $50 Billion
  • Why I'm unbothered and not married to tech tools and why you should be too?
  • How to be tool agnostic and how to let the tools in your skills toolbox drive your career?


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The Self Edit
Black women living their best lives
Tired of feeling like a blurry screenshot, 30-day trial version of yourself of your best self? Today, we stop the copy + paste!

Welcome to The Self Edit, your guide to becoming the bold, brilliant masterpiece you were always meant to be. We celebrate Black womanhood and the journey of becoming. We're about that self-evolution and self-elevation life.

Join your host "The Jeneba Wint" a.k.a the Chief Self Officer, a passionate developer of people, on a journey of intentional life design. Forget autopilot, hit "Ctrl + Alt +Delete and transform your life:

The road to self-actualization is hard-won, but so worth it! Let's do this self-mastery work together. Whether you want to develop more self-confidence, unlock your creativity or optimize your decision-making, Jeneba and her fabulous guests will provide frameworks, prompts, strategies, and practices to activate change and transformation in real life.

This isn't just another self-help podcast with empty promises and band-aid solutions. This is about doing the work— learning, unlearning, healing, elevating—so YOU can live more fully as your best and truest self.

Each week, we'll deep dive into all aspects of intentional and purposeful living: mindset, peace protection and boundaries, productivity, goal achievement, mind-body connection, relationships, minimalism, spirituality and so more.

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About your host

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Jeneba Wint

Jeneba Wint is a leader in digital transformation and innovation. She is a futurist and systems-thinker that has a deep reverence for designing her future self with a passion for self-mastery and self-leadership. She helps Black women and BIPOC humans in the tech industry unlock their zone of genius, accelerate their career growth, and attract high-paying, high-value opportunities. She’s an amplifier and a valued thought partner! Her God-given purpose in this life is to help people think more highly of themselves, help them unlock their full potential, and design a dream life for themselves that creates wealth and impact for future generations. She loves helping the underestimated and undervalued step into the greatest, highest, next-level version of themselves!

She is a graduate of both Delaware State University and The Ohio State University where is received her Masters in Urban Planning. She is a life long learner and continues to level up and build a legacy in technology. She recently earned her first certification in AI Sprint Facilitation, making her one of the first and only certified practitioners in the world. Jeneba is also completed a certification on AI Product Management in May 2024.

She has over ten years of experience leading SAAS digital product development projects in the tech industry, specifically in the service design, design strategy, and operations space.

Jeneba hosts her own podcast show called “The Self Edit” (which is relaunching March 2024)and is building her brand as a fractional executive in the digital transformation and AI. She also has a media brand and career development platform for Black women in tech called “Bloomology.” She enjoys speaking on digital transformation (systems and tech stacks), the future of work, career development, and career branding for Black technologists.

Her mission continues to be, helping people unlock their zone of genius, stop living under their full power and potential, and step into the best version of themselves.

For Jeneba that is the gift that keeps on giving. Every time she helps someone get an opportunity that they thought they were underqualified for, get a promotion, negotiate an offer, or get clarity on their career path it's really a win for her too!