Dr. Amara Pope
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Honestly, in everyday communications, AI has been so helpful. I would say just in terms of testing, A, B testing, different marketing campaigns, being able to input the data that we want and saying, okay, if we could frame it this way, A or B, let's test those things out and see how it works.
Wow, thank you. I'm flattered.
I'm doing well, thanks. It's so nice to catch up. It's been a couple months since we last chatted.
Well, first off, everyone's creative in different ways, I will say. Just because you can draw stick figures doesn't mean you're not creative in just your expressions, you know, your mannerisms. That's very, very creative, I would say. So everyone has their superpowers. Everyone has their talents.
No, no, I'm serious.
No, no, I always say that. And to be honest, I grew up in a household where no one liked to paint and draw. I got my little brother into it. But honestly, that was something I didn't really get from my parents. That's why I always say we have our own skill sets. But I remember watching TV at home and
Like I had told you in our past conversation, I grew up in a really small town where there was not a lot going on. And my brother and I were very close. And I found a really cool hobby that I picked up, which is drawing the cartoons we saw on TV. And that just evolved into a passion for art. I would volunteer my time to draw with little kids.
And that also led me to pursue one of my two majors in my undergrad is fine arts. And I kind of so I did that during my undergrad, enjoyed it so much, but I ended up going down more of the academic route in communications and media. And as you know, on my corporate side, I'm more in marketing and communications.
But I always found that fine arts helps me learn like compositional analysis that that affects the way I create social media posts or marketing campaigns. So those soft skills resonated with my academic work as well as my industry career. But it wasn't until I was wrapping up my PhD that I was able to pick up that paintbrush and kind of ignite that passion in me that I had time. PhD was done.
I was married. Everything was kind of like falling into place in life. And I took that time to really explore that creative side of myself again.
For me, when I do take on a commission or there's one piece that I'm working on, it's just that it's in my head. I have to get it out. That becomes kind of the focal point of my life for those couple months, however long it takes. And I think it's because I really like to wrap myself up into one piece at a time. I tend to kind of block out everything. We have an unfinished basement.
So I go in there, plug my headphones on. Around me is very chaotic and it's a mess, but because it's unfinished, I can make a mess. And I have all of my paintbrushes around me. And that tends to be when I'm outside of work. So in my evenings and on the weekends when I just want to wind down. Because to me, art has become a form of meditation. So I'm very busy. You're very busy.
You understand the need to kind of decompress and have that downtime. So for me, it's either the gym or it's painting. Yeah.
Yeah. And usually both.
You're coming at me with the hard questions.
I did. I was interviewed by NBC when the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle came out. And what I did say was depending on your taste of hip hop music, I think Kendrick Lamar is more of the traditional route, the hard raps, the hard beats. I would arguably say Drake as you know, on my PhD thesis is a more contemporary side of things. He's a little bit more experimental.
Sometimes you hear a song of his and he's got three different compositions in one piece. So yeah, i don't know i i lean right now it changes but i lean right now more towards the traditional hip-hop side of things so there's my answer there i want some hard beats going in my ears as i paint and as i work out so you said team kendrick is indirectly i'm saying at different times different people
Okay, all right. Well, I did actually do an analysis of Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl performance, and I thought he was a genius, so I'll leave it there.
Yes, I am. I understand.
I think that for a very long time in my life, I prioritized my career and my academia. I knew I was going through those years of the grind. And it was really important to me that I finished my PhD that took seven and a half years because I was working full time during that entire process. It did take me a long time.
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