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📖 Episode 17 Summary

Is AI a threat — or an opportunity?

It’s the question dominating headlines, leadership conversations, and career decisions. But in this episode of Game Changer, Amanda invites listeners to look beneath the noise and examine something more foundational: how the way we think about change shapes our results.

Using AI as a modern example, this episode introduces the core mindset framework that explains why people facing the same challenges — whether in business, leadership, or life — experience wildly different outcomes.

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📖 Episode 16 Summary

Using the Minnesota fraud case as a real-world example, Amanda examines what leadership looks like when systems fail. This episode is not about partisan blame or outrage — it’s about problem-solving, accountability, and trust.

Through a leadership and systems-design lens, Amanda explores how fraud emerges when accountability is unclear, incentives are misaligned, and collaboration breaks down. She challenges the instinct to default to blame — of government, of operators, or of funding recipients — and instead makes the case for designing accountability with those closest to the work.

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📖 Episode 15 Summary

Recorded on Christmas Day, Amanda shares a brief reflection on gratitude before diving into the real focus of this episode: how to think about venture capital and funding decisions from a strategic, values-aligned, and intuitive lens. Using the prediction of a16z potentially going public as a launch point, she breaks VC down in human terms — LPs, “war chests,” equity, and why raising money is ultimately an exchange of ownership for resources, speed, and support.

From there, Amanda equips founders and business owners with practical tools to...

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📖 Episode 14 Summary

In this episode, Amanda reflects on completing her first HYROX endurance race and uses the experience as a powerful metaphor for leadership, pacing, and presence — especially at year-end.

What begins as a personal story about discipline, endurance, and managing pressure expands into a timely leadership conversation about the human reality of the holiday season. As the year closes, expectations rise, momentum accelerates, and yet many people are quietly carrying emotional weight, fatigue, grief, or anxiety that doesn’t appear on calendars or performance dashboards.

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📖 Episode 13 Summary

In this episode, Amanda explores a powerful and unexpected story that reveals where real innovation often begins: curiosity, play, and creative thinking — before the world teaches us to be “realistic.”

The episode centers on a 14-year-old who discovered that a specific origami fold could hold up to 10,000 times its own weight — a breakthrough with real implications for emergency shelters and disaster relief. But this conversation isn’t about origami or age.

It’s about human potential before it’s constrained.

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📖 Episode 12 Summary

In this episode, Amanda breaks down a surprising founder story from Slack’s early days — including the moment Stewart Butterfield publicly called out Slack’s first product and how the team responded in an unexpected way. Rather than focusing on shock value, Amanda uses the story to reveal what it teaches us about creativity, innovation, and the inner game required to build something that doesn’t exist yet.

She explores the mindset shifts that separate game changers from the crowd — how they interpret tough feedback, how they move...

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📖 Episode 11 Summary

In this episode of Game Changer, Amanda Escobedo zooms out from the headlines to ask a deeper question: How are media narratives shaping the way you think, feel, and move through your life?

Amanda opens by revisiting the core purpose of the podcast — not to tell you what to think, but to give you tools for how to think. She breaks down a Morning Brew article on “rough work amid a rough job market,” showing how emotionally charged narratives can be built on thin or mismatche...

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📖 Episode 10 Summary

In this episode of Game Changer, Amanda Escobedo delves into the complexities of the current job market, exploring the myths and realities surrounding layoffs. Through insightful analysis, Amanda uncovers how fear-driven narratives can obscure the truth and hinder personal growth.

The episode begins by examining the widespread anxiety caused by sensational headlines about job losses. Amanda challenges these narratives, encouraging listeners to look beyond the surface and find clarity amidst uncertainty. She shares stories of individuals who have transformed setbacks into opportunities, highlighting the resilience and...

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📖 Episode 9 Summary 

In this episode of Game Changer, Amanda Escobedo shares two stories of individuals who turned frustration into action instead of waiting for someone else to fix what was broken.

The first comes from Venezuela, where a nation’s slow slide into corruption and collapse pushed María Corina Machado—an engineer, a mother, an everyday citizen—to step forward in a moment when most people stepped back. Her courage didn’t come from holding power. It came from refusing to accept what she was seeing.

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📖 Episode 8 Summary

In this episode of Game Changer by Empowerhouse Coaching, Amanda Escobedo explores the recent election of Zohran Mamdani as New York City’s new mayor through a creative and values-based lens.

Instead of debating policies, Amanda examines how two sides can look at the same moment in history and see completely different realities — and what that reveals about how we think, solve problems, and define progress.

Focusing on Mamdani’s rent freeze proposal, she asks: Are we treatin...