Pod#136 - Gul Zaib Shakeel - SHE'S THE GENERAL MANAGER AT TEELI!! (feat. Kazi Akber) - a podcast by The Padded Room

Friend of the podcast and recurring guest Gul was finally trapped into making an appearance for a full episode about her. We're very impressed by her becoming the General Manager at Teeli, an outfit we're big fans of like many thousands of other people, so we had to have her on to figure out how she did it. From her childhood, to A-levels, to the job and her promotions, we got most of it. 

As before, the YouTube cut is a shorter version of the full chat which can be found only on our audio platforms.

Things discussed in this episode:

00:00 Intro

02:11 Double barrel names, chai discussion, giving babies Pepsi

05:57 Gul’s current job at Teeli, how we met

10:40 Gul’s early life, writing at a young age, internships

13:49 Talking about our A-levels results & competition with siblings/cousins

16:15 Gul goes to SZABIST, how she chose media sciences, first job out of Uni

23:50 Working Geo Films

33:00 Joining KGS to teach Media Sciences to A levels kids

35:16 Joining Teeli, working in an unproven company in a new field, doing comedy

39:13 People/Society questioning careers in the arts and media

43:22 Joining Teeli

47:52 The at-times horrific experience of table reads for a comedy script

57:23 The multiple moving pieces when making sponsored content vs originals

1:01:34 How did she become GM?

1:07:57 Sudden flashback to becoming head-girl

1:11:41 Flashforward back to Gul becoming GM

1:12:22 Ali asks Gul the heaviest question he’s ever asked anybody

1:19:04 She has a jinn story!

1:23:37 Trying to ask about the future and Areeb Tariq (sudden guest) has a “good question”

1:27:52 A very long and chaotic outro

LINKS:

Teeli's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/Teeli

Teeli's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teelipk/

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