This week’s interview was recorded while my guest and I were on the same time zone in Western Europe--she in Portugal and the UK for me. My guest, Serene Lewis Lyles spent most of her 30-year career making complex things simple. She was on the forefront of launching technologies that, today, are foundational to our lives including digital video recording (the predecessor to streaming content), the Internet of Things (now known as “Smart tech”), and high-design vape tech (much to her embarrassment).

Fun fact, our paths crossed while we were both based in New York City in the aughts, and we share Colorado and Northern California as places we’ve also called home. After living and working in the States and the UK, she finished her career in San Francisco, as a Senior Director at Meta, leading the content design team behind Facebook and Instagram’s billion-dollar ads business. At Meta, she was also a leader of the employee resource group Black@ Design and founder of the Black@ Content Design Leads group.

Since retiring last year, She has now turned her experience of leading people in solving hard problems into a career coaching people through the challenging process of planning for retirement. Her super powers as a coach are being comfortable talking about money, being excited about other people’s dreams, and creating systems that drive action.

Where to find Serene?
serenelewis.coach
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On the Experts & Expats Podcast

What’s Serene reading and listening to?
A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Portuguese Lab Podcast
Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend

Other topics of interest:
About Golden Visa Programs
More about international living in Uruguay
San Francisco’s de Young Art Museum
About the Forty Acres and a Mule
Blue Man Group
About Serene’s Mindset Hack @ 56:43

Special Guest: Serene Lewis Lyles.