Let Him Cook with Sean Adu-Gyamfi | ¿Quién Tú Eres? Podcast

The older we get the older, we realize how important authenticity really is.
When we’re younger, we get wrapped up in the idea of what society deems to be professional. But as we get older, we realize that that’s just one person’s idea of professional. We don’t have to code switch, we don’t have to become new people - we can be ourselves.
And if you grew up believing that you could only be one type of professional - that’s ok! You have time.
You can be yourself in a work setting AND be successful in your industry.
Take this week's guest, for example. As the oldest boy in an African household, he was taught that you have to dress a certain way and speak a certain way to be considered professional. He was taught this so that he would have a better chance of getting a good job and advancing in his career. But as he got older, he started sprinkling more of his true personality into his work personality. Now he has completely given up code-switching and is living his most authentic life.
Sean Adu-Gyamfi is a top residential rental and sales specialist at Mantus Real Estate, focusing on Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. With a degree in mathematics, his comprehensive background allows him to analyze every transaction from an investment sales standpoint, while still catering to his clients’ overall real estate needs. Sean's professional experience has helped him to establish a large and diverse network and provided him the opportunity to work with a large range of clients who have been thoroughly impressed with his professionalism, market knowledge, and transparency.
Prior to working at Mantus Real Estate, Sean was a top business consultant at Zillow Group, where he educated other brokers on how to best understand market sales trends and build their own real estate businesses. Sean has a true passion for helping his clients find the home of their dreams. Outside of real estate, Sean is a professional DJ and event curator, who has performed at some of the top venues in NYC as well as Boston and his hometown of Providence, RI.
In this week’s episode, Sean shares what authenticity means to him as a Black real estate manager living in NYC. He talks about how he’s learned to let go of code-switching, how he learned the “rules” of looking presentable in the real estate world, and what it means to be an entrepreneur in an African household. Tune in to this week’s episode to hear all of Sean’s incredible stories and life lessons.
In this week’s episode, we talk about
- What it meant to be the oldest boy in his household
- How Sean dresses to represent a $10 million home
- How he stopped codeswitching and maintained a professional relationship with his clients
- Why he cashed out his 401k
Check out Beyond Code-Switching with Sean Adu-Gyamfi