Collaboration is a Response - Alexa Mena

In this episode we explore the collaboration and how it relates to the arts and corporate environments with Alexa Mena. Alexa is the Senior Project Manager and Business Development Specialist at Syndication Bureau Media Services.

 

Find Alexa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ramenagirl/

Read 'The Overstory' by Richard Powers: https://www.amazon.com/Overstory-Novel-Richard-Powers/dp/039335668X

Read more about collaboration in Sebastian Grube's article 'Collaboration is Inevitable': https://open.substack.com/pub/sebastiangrube/p/collaboration-is-inevitable?r=i1owg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Episode Overview:

(1:20) Introducing Alexa

(2:20) Moment of Comfort

(3:05) Alexa’s personal artistic practice – Listening and Responding

(4:58) Nurturing her artistic practice

(7:03) Alexa’s definition of artistic sensibilities

(8:05) Diversifying consumption

(12:24) On collaboration and defining collaboration

(16:21) Digging into collaboration and the inputs

(22:06) Redefining the concept of collaboration to response

(23:34) Alexa’s professional practice with Syndication Bureau Media Services

(25:01) Where do Alexa’s artistic sensibilities intersect with her professional practice

(26:54) Collaboration in Business Development

(29:34) Collaboration as a Response in business (32:46) Leveraging artistic sensibilities in one’s professional practice

(35:27) Alexa’s upcoming milestones