Interview 072 with Sabine Gedeon

Listen to Sabine Gedeon—who resides in San Diego, California, grew up in Connecticut, was born in Haiti, and migrated to the East Coast when she was 4-years-old—share about working in California during the Covid-19 pandemic. She identifies as Haitian: “Being born in Haiti and growing up in Haitian culture I’ve always identified or been very aware that I was Haitian…” She moved to Los Angeles in December of 2019 and worked in-person until the week before the shut-down in March of 2022 when she transitioned to working from home.

On the virus, our mortality, and the murder of George Floyd:

“…so I think the first few months for me it was more of a trauma response of ‘It's go time,’ Right? And so I was in it. Things weren't affecting me as much. Then George Floyd murder happens, right? And so it's another opportunity to take a pause and to reassess like, Who am I? Right? Like, what am I doing? Like, where am I that I could live in a place where someone could maliciously treat another human being like that? Right? So, you know, we go from grappling with our own mortality, right, with this unknown virus to you know grappling with our own mortality just because of the color of our skin…

On creating her podcast:

“…the pandemic happened and [my podcast] became really a saving grace for me during that time frame, because it was a creative outlet, it was a way for me to…not have to worry about, you know, what was happening in the world. I guess that was my moment of privilege… I could just focus on creating something that, you know, could uplift, could empower, could help other people who might have been in the valley moment to see, okay, you know what, I'm here now, but at some point I’m going to reach…on top because if she could do it, then I could do it…That was The Journey to Becoming…[which I literally launched on January 6th 2021]…Then I launched She Leads Now…”

Check out Sabine's Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-journey-to-becoming/id1546108390

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/she-leads-now/id1598455202

Motivational Quote:

“How you do one thing is how you do everything.” –Sabine Gedeon