Unlocking Me / We / Us: Every Challenge is an Opportunity
summary
Argues that every intimidating challenge is an opportunity, and shows concrete practices: daily habit building (multi‑year walking streak), change frameworks (Dr Lisa Lahey and Immunity to Change) and culture tools (The Culture Map) to pick and pursue meaningful goals. Built a moderation and event framework — Game Production Community Discord (6.5k members) with a volunteer team of 10, 5 events/month that yields measurable diversity outcomes (≈90% contributors identify as underrepresented). Gives checklist redesign example that cut build turnaround and recounts a main‑stage talk that sparked peer problem‑sharing.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50Personal journey
- 7:13Unlocking myself
- 12:53Unlocking teams
- 18:57Prioritizing growth
- 23:38Unlocking community
- 35:07Confronting fears
- 40:06Q&A travel learning
- 47:38Q&A cultural integration
- 51:31Q&A personal branding
- 55:30Q&A introversion fears
- 58:36Q&A people pleasing
- 1:00:06Closing remarks
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