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Episode #2 - Christian Aycinena (Polo)
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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Jul 29, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
On this episode of the podcast, Gideon is joined by long time friend and technology consultant for Accenture, Christian. Christian grew up in Guatemala City playing polo where he developed a passion for the sport and for the animal. He knew he wanted to continue polo in college and with all his friends leaving Guatemala to study abroad he settled on Texas A&M.Throughout the podcast, Christian talks about his success in polo, winning the Intercollegiate championship three out of his four years. He also discusses how he had to make a decision to prioritize his career over polo, taking a consulting job with Deloitte and later Accenture. The guys go into detail on three championship wins sharing the highs and the lows of an awesome team with many ups and downs; including a fall for Gideon his senior year during the regional championship while beating SMU by 4 goals. Switching gears, Gideon talks to Christian about his professional career as a technology consultant at Accenture. Christian explains why he decided to choose Accenture over Deloitte. He speaks about some of the best parts of his job and some of his frustrations too. The guys round the podcast out with Christian and his girlfriend's, Sofia, snack business. A common Bolivian crunchy cassava cheese snack, Cuñapes, are a really popular snack that they are bringing to the US.Calído, has five real ingredients, it’s delicious, healthy and has a really familiar latin flavor. Sign up to be the first to try them, here!If you enjoyed the episode, please be sure to subscribe so you never miss a new episode and leave a review and let us know what you think, so I can improve and bring you the best content regularly. Thanks for listening!
Released:
Jul 29, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (40)
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