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Terri talks to Micah Brown about his early days growing up in South London, becoming Mr. Banker Man while working at Barclay\\u2019s starting at age 16, and how learned to hack the processes that screened out people like him. This is the first of a two-part interview where he gives us the background that eventually led to starting Film Fundr and Centiment.io.

• Micah talks about growing up in South London in a very Christian, strict and sheltered household with his dad who was a pharmacy technician and his mom who was a hairdresser
• Micah\\u2019s dad was a trained pharmacist in Jamaica and had his own pharmacy when he met Micah\\u2019s mom and proposed when they first met. Eventually she said yes and because his mom had dual citizenship, after they married, they moved to the UK.
• Terri tells the story of her dating and dumping her husband three times starting in 8^th grade and how they eventually got married when they were 26 and are still married 21 years later. They met when they were 10 in the 5^th grade (or so her husband remembers as he met both Terri and her identical twin sister Sherry on the same day).
• Micah talks about his early work days and earning money to learn how to code that eventually led to working at Barclay\\u2019s Bank as a cashier at 16, being called Mr. Banker Man and how he ended up in credit risk at 17.
• He kept getting turned down for a Barclay\\u2019s job because he didn\\u2019t have a degree and found a different way to be seen as a person, and not just a number, to get the credit risk job.
• Micah talks about how the tech incumbents create mental moats around fairly simple things seem impossible for women and people of color. There is mythology around these things that makes these people think that it\\u2019s too hard and impossible, and not for them and this needs to stop.
• Terri talks about how the check-the-box criteria perpetuates the problem associated with screening out a diverse candidate set because the checkboxes tend to only allow in one set of candidates that all fit the same mold. It\\u2019s not about lowering the standards; it\\u2019s about changing the requirements to introduce a new and more powerful dynamic.
• Micah talks about the cognitive dissonance associated with how the hierarchical society is supposed to work versus how it actually works here in the US.
• We end abruptly with Micah talking about how he counters some of this with raw intellect and data which he explains in detail in the second part of the interview.

• Centiment: https://centiment.io/beta/
• Film Fundr: https://filmfundr.com/
• Piloting Your Life episode 26 with Chris Brown: http://www.terrihansonmead.com/podcast/pyl026

• Portfolia: http://www.portfolia.co/