zsh: command not found: pod - macOS Catalina 10.15

I'm running the install with an admin account I tried

sudo gem install cocoapods

and

sudo gem install cocoapods -n /usr/local/bin

They both run fine with following output

Fetching cocoapods-1.9.1.gemSuccessfully installed cocoapods-1.9.1Parsing documentation for cocoapods-1.9.1Installing ri documentation for cocoapods-1.9.1Done installing documentation for cocoapods after 2 seconds1 gem installed

however, a simple

pod --version

Returns

zsh: command not found: pod

I'm not too good at managing users accounts or dealing with command shell but I scoured the net and couldn't find a solution. It looks like wherever pod is installed, it doesn't make it to the list of executable applications