Mimi Munoz: Stop exhausting yourself trying to be like everyone else

Seriously Authentic

This week Larissa speaks with Mimi Munoz, Cannes Silver Lion recipient and Executive Producer.

Mimi is a first-generation Vietnamese-American daughter of refugees. Mimi has produced award-winning social impact films “The Myth” and “Call it Covid.” Mimi is the Global Creative Producer for Wieden + Kennedy. Mimi tells stories of people and marginalized communities. She is an advisor for Asiancy, Wieden + Kennedy’s Asian ERG. Mimi and her work have been featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, Ad Age, and Adweek.

Larissa & Mimi chat:

• Being a kid, being shy, and keeping your head down
• Wanting to make her parents proud more than anything else
• Growing up in a family that was in survival mode
• Mimi feeling it was necessary for her to experience being shy and withdrawn as a kid because her story resonates with people today
• How important it is for her to show her two daughters how to love themselves and embrace all the things that make them unique
• How Mimi moves through the world so unapologetically
• Making Call it Covid regardless of the consequences to help her community
• The angry late-night phone call that led to Call it Covid
• How exhausting it is to try and be everything for someone else
• Advocating for others and how Mimi’s love language is words of affirmation
• Imposter syndrome and how Mimi was approached to work at Wieden + Kennedy
• Trying hard to replicate what success looked like in the workplace, and how that never worked because she didn’t look like them or have their experience
• Fashion insecurities and role models
• Not apologizing for how you feel
• Elevating more voices not just celebrities
• Mimi’s Superpower and her new podcast “Hi Love with Mimi”
• Letting go of needing to give all parts of yourself to friendships

Follow Mimi:

• @mimitieuvo (IG)
• Mimi Munoz (LinkedIn)
• Check out Mimi’s films callitcovid.com

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• @larissavictoria (LinkedIn IG)
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Original music by Haile Meirow “inside your tears”

Talent Advisor Serena Board