Part 2: TEDx Creator Krisztina "Z" Holly on Innovation, Impact, and Manufacturing

Krisztina Holly (0:00)

People think of mastery as being the best person on the playing field.

And for me, I get incredible joy from creating my own playing field. And I don't think that it's something that anyone else has necessarily played before.

Michael Gervais (0:22)

Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. This is part two of a conversation with Krisztina Holly.

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So she's got her own podcast called Art of Manufacturing, and that's on iTunes. And she's now currently building a nonprofit called Make It In LA. This conversation is rich. We're jumping right back into it. I hope that you can find part one if you haven't already done so. So let's jump right into this conversation with Krisztina Holly. Okay, so now go full circle for us. Now you're at the, unless there's a couple of things to fill in, but I guess we haven't got a sense of like family life yet now. Like what are your relationships look like? Is it a close network of friends? Is it intimacy in pockets? Like, what does your family life look like?

Krisztina Holly (5:09)

So my parents live in LA, not around the corner. So I wish I saw them more often, but they, but so that's, so I have a really good relationship with them parents.