In this episode, Mina Legend shares how she connects the dots from tango dancing moves and bartending skills to make her visual thinking unique.

Hear how she and her visual thinking firm, Big Brain Agency, provide live scribing and visual facilitation for small and large customers in Sweden, Europe, and worldwide.

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Running Order

• Intro: Who is Mina
• Mina’s origin story
• Work that Mina is doing now
• What does Mina do to keep sane in a pandemic?
  • Dancing
  • Meditation and yoga
  • Moving in with a roommate
• Tools
• 3 tips
• Outro

Links

• Mina on Instagram
• Mina on LinkedIn
• Mina at IFVP
• Big Brain Agency on Instagram
• Big Brain Agency on LinkedIn
• Big Brain Agency on Twitter
• Big Brain Agency
• Nikki Visual

Tools

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Neuland
• Posca
• Molotow
• iPad Pro
• Apple Pencil
• Procreate
• Mirroring 360 app
• Microsoft Surface Hub 2S
• Samsung Flip 2 Digital Flipchart
• The Noun Project

Tips

1. Exploring other visual people’s work on Instagram
2. Use The Noun Project
3. Do your best and it will be fine!

Credits

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

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