Christina Wallace: How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps
Christina Wallace: Cómo dejar de ligar y encontrar a su persona con apps de citas
A self-described "human Venn diagram," Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, the arts and technology. Full bio
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my freshman year of college,
en mi primer año de universidad,
in case you can't see my wrinkle.
no puedan ver mis arrugas.
I'm six-feet tall,
basketball team averaged five-foot-eight,
División III tenía un promedio de 1,72 m,
scene and went online.
campus y entré en línea.
was pretty close to the plot
eran muy parecidas a la trama
back and forth for weeks,
durante semanas,
te reunieras en la vida real.
you'd realize you have no chemistry
de que no tenía química
has changed a lot in the last 17 years,
mucho en los últimos 17 años,
siguen siendo las mismas.
and professional circles.
y profesionales existentes.
math and theater nerd,
y dramaturga orientada a la acción,
I tend to take a step back,
tiendo a dar un paso atrás,
to figure out why, and to fix it.
para descubrir por qué y solucionarlo.
I took myself on a relationship off-site.
me fui a un retiro de relaciones.
in Maine for a week,
sola en Maine una semana,
of mediocre relationships.
mi historial de relaciones mediocres.
I knew what I wanted in a partner.
lo que quería en una pareja.
a sense of purpose.
un sentido de propósito.
lo que elegí en línea:
prioritized those things,
haya priorizado esas cosas,
de investigar en línea.
looked great on paper
se veían bien en el papel
in the spring of 2016,
en la primavera de 2016,
through some classic business tools.
algunas herramientas comerciales clásicas.
las aplicaciones basadas en pillar.
the gamification of swipe-based apps.
a writing sample.
una muestra de escritura.
configuré un filtro de ventas,
apreciación de mi tipo,
that would qualify a lead.
que calificarían a un candidato.
tenía que tener tres cosas:
completas y con buena gramática;
and with good grammar;
something in my profile,
a algo en mi perfil,
a copy-and-paste situation;
todo el contenido sexual.
of my 210 inbound messages,
210 mensajes entrantes,
as quickly as possible,
vida real lo más rápido posible,
I couldn't see online.
no las veía en línea.
with someone to tell if you click.
con alguien se sabe si hace clic.
dinner with this person?
three hours across the table
3 horas al otro lado de la mesa
conferencia con China...
a conference call with China --
you schedule a first date.
programe una primera cita.
you downshift into entertainer mode
gradual a modo diversión
for your next networking event.
próximo evento de hacer contactos.
you can squeeze up to three in one evening
puedes despachar hasta tres en una noche
and pick out one great outfit a week.
un gran atuendo por semana.
to see how they responded
oportunidad de ver cómo respondían
would dig my moxie, and I was right.
mis agallas, y tenía razón.
only 15 replied to my message,
solo 15 respondieron mi mensaje,
was with a set designer.
un diseñador de escenas.
with peanut butter,
it wasn't going to be a thing
que no iba a ser nada
spending dinner with him.
about going to my next zero date.
de ir a mi siguiente cita cero.
on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Brooklyn Heights Promenade
to watch the sunset,
2 cuadras de mi apartamento.
from my apartment.
I have a podcast,
tengo un podcast,
we can talk about our podcasts.
hablar de nuestros podcasts.
and asked even better questions.
mejores preguntas.
and his eyes twinkled when he laughed
brillaron cuando se rió
cita cero se convirtió en la primera cita.
our zero date became a first date.
dryer and two house plants together.
una secadora y dos plantas en casa.
you're going to end up with house plants.
con plantas de interior.
doesn't have to suck.
no tienen que apestar.
and don't treat it like a resume review.
como una revisión del currículum.
and qualify leads
y calificar clientes potenciales
as possible with the zero date.
rápido posible con la cita cero.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christina Wallace - Entrepreneur, podcaster, storytellerA self-described "human Venn diagram," Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, the arts and technology.
Why you should listen
Christina Wallace is currently the VP of Growth at Bionic, co-host of The Limit Does Not Exist podcast and co-author of upcoming business book New-to-Big, which will be published by Currency (Penguin Random House) in Spring 2019.
Wallace previously founded fashion company Quincy and ed-tech startup BridgeUp: STEM inside the American Museum of Natural History, and she opened the New York office for Startup Institute. Mashable named her one of "44 Female Founders to Know" and Refinery29 declared her one of the "Most Powerful Women in NYC Tech."
In her free time, Wallace sings in a community choir, climbs mountains, runs half (and some full) marathons and volunteers for progressive political causes. She lives with her fiancé and their two houseplants in Brooklyn, New York.
Watch Wallace's TEDxSanAntonio 2016 talk here.
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