The Urban Planner's Podcast

In today's episode, Gigi interviews Lakeylah White. Lakeylah is currently running for mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She how her background in planning provided her with the experience in running for public office. She also discusses how there is very little planning being done in the state of Mississippi and how she is advocating for that in her platform. To connect with Lakeylah, you can connect with her on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter at @lakeylahwhiteformayor and her website lakeylahwhitemayor.com. 

In today's episode, Gigi interviews John Sanchez. John is currently running for the New York City Council 15th District. He talks about is non-traditional involvement in the planning process although he is not a planner by trade. He also discusses a lot of changes that he is advocating for during his campaign that will make NYC a better place. To connect with John, you can connect with him on Instagram at @johnsanchezny; on Twitter at @nyjohnsanchez and his website johnsanchezforny.com. 

In today's episode, Gigi interviews Winfred Mills. Winfred talks about how he changed careers into the planning field. He extensively discusses how he has been actively pursuing a job in the planning field with no degree in planning and how others can do so as well.  To connect with Winfred, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and on Instagram, @fredericmoulin_. 

In today's episode, Gigi talks about becoming paperless in a planning office. She provides some tips on how her office has become almost 100% paperless. This advice is great for this Covid-19 era.   

In today's episode, Gigi talks about how to choose the best planning school for you. She provide some tips on some of the keys things to look at when selecting the ideal program.    

In today's episode, Gigi talks about some study tips for the AICP exam. She provides some tips based on her own personal experience with taking the exam as well as tips from others that do study prep.

In today's episode, Gigi delves in everything that you need to know to apply for the AICP exam. She provides some insider tips on how to ensure that you are able to pass the "entrance exam" to take the actual exam. 

In today's episode, Gigi The Planner interviews her husband Jeremy and she quizzes him on what he knows about the planning field. It was a fun light episode with lots of laughs. 

In today's episode, Gigi interviews Bakari Height, one of her new blog writers for her blog. Bakari talked about his experience as a transportation planner in the Atlanta area as well as his organization Marta Army. He even discusses how he was able to work in the planning field still in planning school.  To connect with Bakari, you can follow him on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter  @mrmidtownatlanta also make sure to visit his website martaarmy.org.

In today's episode, Gigi concludes her series called Starting Your Planning Brand. She interviewed Byron Nicholas from The Black and Urban Platform. Byron talks about his experience with starting his own online writing platform and explains how he incorporates family and others into his work.   To connect with Byron, you can follow him on Instagram @blackandurban and Twitter @blackandurban_ and make sure to visit his website blackandurban.com.

In today's episode, Gigi continues her series called Starting Your Planning Brand. She interviewed Kristen Jeffers aka The Black Urbanist. Kristen talks about her experience of starting her own media platform and how it has progressed over the past ten years.    To connect with Kristen, you can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @blackurbanist and @kristpattern on Instagram as well, and make sure to visit her websites theblackurbanist.com and kristenejeffers.com.   Also, as she indicated during the episode, please find the link below to her post.  http://theblackurbanist.com/questions-to-ask-and-traps-to-avoid-when-considering-a-career-in-placemaking/

In today's episode, Gigi begins her series called Starting Your Planning Brand Series. She interviewed Jermaine Ruffin from The Streets are Planning Podcast. Jermaine talks about his experience of starting his podcast. He also discusses the challenges he faced starting his podcast and how he incorporates hip hop into planning.  To connect with Jermaine, you can follow him on Instagram and Twitter @Thestreetsareplanning or @justjruffin on Instagram as well, and make sure to visit their website at streetsareplanning.com 

In today's episode, Gigi talks about how you can restore your passion for the planning field. She describes how oftentimes many people get discouraged and doubt their passion for planning once entering the work field. However, Gigi shares different ways that one can maintain that passion for planning. 

In today's episode, Gigi talks about the Standards and Procedures report, written by Kendra Ellner and endorsed by Gigi The Planner. This report is a collaboration with a few other planners including the following: Angela Brooks, Nina Idemudia, Byron Nicholas, Arlova Vonhm. She dives deeper into explaining a couple of the procedures in the planning field.

In today's episode, Gigi talks about what degree planners need. She discusses how people can become planners without necessarily having a planning degree or even a degree at all. She also dives deeper into discussing how almost any degree or profession can be tied back into the planning field. Therefore, having a degree in geography, architecture, or even culinary, can still allow you to be a planner. 

In today's episode, Gigi talks about the role that other professions play in the planning field. She discusses the differences between urban design and urban planning and dives deeper into the field of landscape architecture and engineering. She also explains how different divisions and departments within the city coincide and work alongside the planning field. 

In today's episode, Gigi talks about the AICP certification and discusses whether or not it is worth obtaining. She talks about some of the benefits of having this certification and explains why it may be worth getting when searching for a job. 

In today's episode, Gigi talks about how she became the chair of a brand new Planning and Zoning Board. She also discusses some of the things she has experienced thus far and gives some best practices for those who would like to serve on a planning and zoning board/commission.

In today's episode, Gigi continues her conversation with Antoine Bryant and DAngelos Svenkeson. They delve more into the topic of Urbanism Divide in America talking about gentrification, education and food deserts. This is the final episode of the Black Urbanists Speak Out Series.

In today's episode, Gigi continues her 6-week series called Black Urbanists Speak Out. She interviewed Antoine Bryant and DAngelos Svenkeson. They begin their discussion about their planning background and they begin to delve into the topic of Urbanism Divide in America. This is part 1 of 2.

In today's episode, Gigi continues her 6-week series called Black Urbanists Speak Out. She interviewed Jordan Exantus and Krishanna-Marie Newton both Black bi-racial individuals in the planning field. They discuss what it is like being biracial in America and their experiences with how they have dealt with that even in their work as a planner.   To connect with Krishanna-Marie Newton, you can find her on LinkedIn, Facebook, and on the City of Atlanta website for Neighborhood Planning Units and Community Engagement.  To connect with Jordan Exactas you can find him on LinkedIn and Facebook. 

In today's episode, Gigi continues her 6-week series called Black Urbanists Speak Out. She interviewed Gordon Linton and they discuss his life as a new planner and what it is like being a black male in the planning field.  To connect with Gordon, you can follow him on Instagram @mrfloridaboy29 or connect with him on LinkedIn.  Check out gigitheplanner.com for urban planning products, career coaching, access to an exclusive planner's community and more.

In today's episode, Gigi continues her 6-week series called Black Urbanists Speak Out. She interviewed fellow podcasters, Melissa Daniel from the Architecture is Political podcast and Kyrah Williams and Kemet Floyd from America's Hidden Gem The Podcast. They discuss their life experiences being in the architecture field from college to the workforce.  To connect with Melissa Daniel, you can follow her on Twitter @melissardaniel or @archispolly and on Instagram @archispolly, you can also connect with her on LinkedIn @Melissa Daniels or on Facebook @archispolly. Melissa's handle for her podcast is Arch Is Polly and you can listen on Apple, Spotify, I Heart Radio, Tune IN Radio, Overcast, Anchor, and Google Podcast.  To connect with Kemet Floyd, you can follow him on Instagram @kmtcreates.  To connect with Kyrah Williams, you can follow her on LinkedIn at Kyrah L. Williams and connect with America's Hidden Gem on Facebook and Instagram @americashiddengem and on Twitter @americashiddeng.  You can also follow Kemet's and Kyrah's podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, Breaker, Pocket Casts, Radio Public @AHGTHEPODCAST

In today's episode, Gigi begins her 6-week series called Black Urbanists Speak out. Her first interviewees for this series are Tiffany-Ann Taylor and Tiera Mack who are both natives of New York and currently work as planners in New York as well. They discuss how they are active in the advocacy realm in planning and how other urbanists or urban planners can be advocates as well.   To connect with Tiffany-Ann Taylor, you can send her an email to Diversity@nyplanning.org or follow her at @Divcomm on Instagram and Twitter.    To connect with Tiera Mack, you can follow her @tierammack on Instagram and Twitter.    Check out gigitheplanner.com for urban planning products, career coaching, access to an exclusive planner's community and more. 

In today's episode, Gigi interviews her friend and coworker Pamela McCleod. They delve into her life experiences with obtaining degrees in geography and experiencing roadblocks with getting into the planning field. Then they switch gears and speak about Pamela's new endeavor with starting a planning and development firm with her husband called McCleod Planning and Development Professionals.   To connect with Pamela, you can follow her at @pam2mac on Instagram and you can follow her firm at @mpdp_llc on Instagram as well. Her firm's website is mpdprofessionals.com.  Check out gigitheplanner.com for urban planning products, career coaching, access to an exclusive planner's community and more. 

In today's episode, Gigi interviews Tanya McGee and they discuss Tanya's current life as a full time phd student and a full time planner.  To connect with Tanya, you can follow her at @youlovetan on Instagram and @__Tann on Twitter. Check out gigitheplanner.com for urban planning products, career coaching, access to an exclusive planner's community and more. 

In today's episode, Gigi interviews Desiree Powell and we discuss how she got into the planning field, her platform Blck Spces and her passion for placemaking and tactical urbanism. To connect with Desiree, you can follow her at @thedee_p on Instagram, @blckspces on Twitter and reach out to her on LinkedIn as well as her website blckspces.com where you can read her blog.   Check out gigitheplanner.com for urban planning products, career coaching, access to an exclusive planner's community and more. 

In today's episode, Gigi talks about the value of college internships and how she was able to benefit from having multiple internships while in college and how others can do so as well. Check out gigitheplanner.com for urban planning products, career coaching, access to an exclusive planner's community and more. 

In today's episode, Gigi talk about how she was able to get her masters in urban and regional planning debt free and she goes into detail about how others can do so as well.  Check out gigitheplanner.com for urban planning products, career coaching, access to an exclusive planner's community and more. 

In today's episode, I will be interviewing Mitchell Silver the current NYC Parks Commissioner and the past first black American Planning Association (APA) president. We discuss his 35 year career as a planner working in multiple cities and experience with APA. He also imparts a lot of wisdom and encouragement for planners and challenges many current practices and ways of thinking.  To connect with Mitchell, you can follow him at @mitchell_silver on Instagram and Twitter and reach out to him on LinkedIn as well.  Check out gigitheplanner.com for urban planning products, career coaching, access to an exclusive planner's community and more. 

In today's episode, Gigi the Planners talks about her own personal day-to-day experiences as a public sector planners. She details the type of work from three different positions that she has held at her place of employment - as an intern, zoning technician and now a planner. Gigi even delves the type of work her coworkers do on a daily basis. Check out gigitheplanner.com for urban planning products, career coaching, access to an exclusive planner's community and more. Follow me @gigitheplanner on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.  

In today's episode, Gigi The Planner talks about how she has dealt with ageism in the workplace and while serving on the board as the chair of the planning and zoning board of her local city. She also provides advice to young planners on how to deal with ageism at their job and how the seasoned planners can better regard their younger counterparts.  Check out gigitheplanner.com for urban planning products, career coaching, access to an exclusive planner's community and more. 

In today's episode I interview Jonathan Lieber @jungle_capital a planner from Toronto, Canada. During this interview, we discuss his recent acceptance to a university where he will be receiving three masters degrees and only having an associates degree and how his planning work experience has been molded thus far by not having a bachelor's degree. We also talked about the work that he does and his passion for environmental planning.  To connect with Jonathan you can follow him at @jungle_capital on Instagram and Twitter, Jonathan Lieber Ecology Planning on Facebook and you can listen to his podcast Jungle Capital on all platforms. Check out gigitheplanner.com for urban planning products, career coaching, access to an exclusive planner's community and more. 

In today's episode, Gigi talks about the importance of having a planning mentor. She delves into her personal experiences with having mentors and provides advice to those in need of a mentor on how to best go about obtaining one.    Check out gigitheplanner.com for urban planning products, career coaching, access to an exclusive planner's community and more.   

In today's episode, Gigi The Planner talks about a few of the things that the City of Pompano Beach (her workplace) put into place that helped the employees easily transition into working from home during this Covid-19 pandemic. She also gives parents some tips on how to manage juggling working and dealing with their kids on a daily basis. 

In today's episode, Gigi the Planner talks about her frustrations with customers in the workplace. From impatient customers to customers not taking your word, Gigi delves into some of the issues that she faces while working at a local municipality.

In today's episode, Gigi The Planners delves into a few key things that frustrated her about planning school. From not being offered zoning course while in planning school to there not being a diversity of faculty, this episode goes deep in what she thinks should be changed to better prepare students in the planning profession based on her own experiences. 

Today Gigi The Planner briefly discusses about her experiences as a “planner”. Gigi honestly thinks that she should instead take on the title zoning code reviewer or code enforcement officer since she doesn't actually feel as if she is doing "planning" work in her everyday job working for a local municipality. This podcast should be very relatable for many planners as they delve into their jobs. 

This episode is an introduction to Gigi The Planner. Gigi The Planner talks all about how she grew up, her college experience and how she got into the field of urban planning. She even delves into her work and internship experience.Finally, she briefly discusses the purpose behind the podcast and what to expect in the future.