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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.