Own Your Difference, Embrace Your Weirdness 🩷 #interview #shorts #career #growth

So going back to your career, and you're in Silicon Valley and most of the people are like guys and you're a Black woman, you're born in, in Canada, your first language is French. Did you feel that the fact that you were different, was it a pro, was it a con? Did you think that it allows you to think outside of the box because you were not raised the same way and you were like different in a way than most of the people, not all, but most of the people? Yeah, I think it's a great question. I try to have great questions.

Thank you, Rebecca. I think I didn't know I was different until I was different. I think moving to the US from Canada, people made me feel that I was very different. And then I'm different 100%, and what I've learned is like to change the narrative and to be able to bring my difference to the table and triple down on that, right? If I would introduce myself to someone, I would say, "Hi, my name is Katheline Jean-Pierre, and sometimes I'm French-Canadian from Haitian origins." And how it's going to show up, it's sometimes my accent is going to go through the roof. Sometimes I'm not going to know what you're talking about when you talk about football and baseball. Sometimes there's French words that are going to be thrown in the room