Meet Peet Montzingo | Artist & CEO

We had the good fortune of connecting with Peet Montzingo and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Peet, do you have any habits that you feel contribute to your effectiveness?
I whole heartedly believe that growing up and now living with ADHD has not only shaped me into being the person that I am, but has also been a corner stone in the success of career.

Growing up with ADHD, I was constantly told by teachers and mentors that I “need to calm down” and “focus”. I always felt like my brain and my drive, selective focus, and excitement for life was running at a different pace from that of my peers—even as an adult. And it wasn’t until I was diagnosed at the age of 18 that I realized my brain really is working differently than those around me.

Constantly, I found myself in a highly energetic state, always excited to do something, always hyper-focused on some random niche, and always utilizing my creativity in new ways. Unfortunately growing up in the school system and in a “normal” world prevented me from accepting this about myself or feeling confident to capitalize on what I thought were my “weaknesses” earlier on.

As I grew older, I stopped comparing the way I run to those around me, and instead have been able to use my ADHD to drive my art and career forwards. In a nutshell… I realized that these traits could actually be my strengths if I leaned into it. And as a result, I am able to constantly put all of my creativity into my work and career—utilizing my hyper-fixations in a way that allows me to realize a vision and produce art.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Getting to where I am today in my business has truly been a long adventure of pursing my own personal passions, being faced with a challenge, learning a lesson, and eventually overcoming every obstacle and moving forward. Once I realized I could have a business with a creative foundation, I knew it was then something I could build and maintain, and it’s been very validating to see all the work pay off even though I don’t have a “traditional” business model.

Ever since I was young I couldn’t decide on what to focus on, because I wanted to focus on everything. I played trombone and I loved to sing. I made movies with my mom’s camera. I wrote plays for school and created fun animation movies instead of essays or presentations (even if I wasn’t supposed to). I just couldn’t help but want to be creative and find creative solutions to boring or hard tasks, yet it felt like the world wanted me to feel like there wouldn’t be a practical career option with this mindset. But I am a stubborn dreamer, so as soon as I graduated school I moved to Los Angeles and invested in myself.

I struggled to pay rent for many years and did some cool creative things: Acted in movies and television shows, toured in boybands, and did some editing. But ultimately nothing was working out, but I kept going. Without all the ups and downs, the constant failing, and the doors consistently closing, I wouldn’t have developed the knowledge of the industry or how to navigate it, how to have a team, understand humility, or understand where to reinvest in my business. I feel this, my creativity, and my interest in many outlets gave me the foundation I needed for my business.

I am (although sometimes to a fault) extremely passionate and driven to create unique, transformative, educational, and sometimes controversial stories in many mediums: Content, music—Party With A Weirdo & Carousel—, literature—Little Imperfections: A Tall Take of Growing Up Different—, physical products—American Crew X Peet Montzingo collaboration & merchandise—, media productions, and soon video games. Which has inspired me to realize my company’s main message—“Ginger With A Soul”—to inspire, lift up, and advocate for another, to lead with love and fearlessness, and ultimately never take life too seriously… after all, we’re just living here on a floating rock in space!

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
It’s about the experience not about where we would go. But I will say… I am cheap! But some examples are: eat at Sushi Stop (cheap but really good sushi), ice cream in a waffle at The Dolly Llama (who doesn’t want a full ice cream breakfast??), go on random adventures like skydiving, hiking, canoeing, playing video games, going laser tag, making music… honestly just being in the moment and not planning it, but feeling it.

To be completely honest, in my personal life I don’t like to spend a lot of money or live a luxury life style. Something that my friends and I find really fun is seeing how much fun we can have and what crazy antics we can get up to while on a dime.

We would probably start the day (or afternoon, rather, because we love to sleep in!) going to Sushi Stop or getting a meal similar to that. And then without a plan we would drive the streets of LA, probably hop on the 101 and cruise with the beach on right and mountains on the left, blasting all of our favorite songs. We would eventually end up finding a secret entrance to a private beach in Malibu with swings underneath people’s patios and have an epic day, just getting lost in our laughs and conversations.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
I would like to give a huge shoutout to all of my fellow neurodivergents who are running companies and are totally burnt out yet somehow manage to keep going! Oh, and of course my lovely mother 🙂

Website: https://littleimperfectionsbook.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peetmontzingo/

Twitter: https://x.com/Peet_Montzingo

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PeetMontzingo

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SNAPCHAT: https://www.snapchat.com/add/peetmontzingo
THREADS: https://www.threads.net/@peetmontzingo

Image Credits
Picture 1: Photographer: Nate Jensen