Ep. 10 | Layoffs, Job Market Myths, & Creating Opportunity in Uncertainty

📖 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 creativity required to navigate today's job landscape.

Listeners are invited to reflect on their own experiences with job market challenges and consider how they can turn adversity into a catalyst for change. Amanda emphasizes that true game changers are those who see beyond the myths, embrace uncertainty, and create their own opportunities.

Referenced Resources: 🔗 

• “Scam job postings are surging as the labor market dries up.”
•  “The worst October for layoffs in over two decades.”

Transcript

Amanda Escobedo:

Welcome to the Game Changer by Empower House Coaching, your podcast to master the mental game, elevate your brilliance and build a legacy of progress and impact. My name is Amanda Escobedo. I'm your host and inner game coach here to help you change the game. Welcome to episode 10. Wow, it has already been 10 weeks since we have been recording and kicking off the Game Changer.

Amanda Escobedo:

Usually I like to start off with some updates before we dive into a breakout and a breakdown of some news, but I don't really have much of an update. Celebrate a fun friends giving at my brother's house. He had a lot of great people there. My parents were there. I love connecting with all of his friends and eating a lot of good food and tis the season of gratitude.

Amanda Escobedo:

I was literally laying down with my dog yesterday and I was looking at him like, I love you so much and I'm so grateful for my little angel. I'm grateful for actually a lot of things. And I think gratitude in general is something that we benefit from when we practice all the things that we are grateful for. One of the things I love to do when I'm working with clients is at the beginning of our sessions, we actually kick off with wins because our brain is wired for negativity.

Amanda Escobedo:

On average, 80 % of our thoughts are negative, 95 % of our thoughts are repetitive. And so whenever you're connecting with someone and you're like, oh, how was your day? How was your week? Everyone's like, ugh, ugh. And then they go through all the things, know, just kicking along and all these things that have gone wrong. And what I find most fascinating is when I'm working with my clients, I actually set the tone that we are working to rewire their brain. And so we will always kick off with asking, what are your wins?

Amanda Escobedo:

And it's so fascinating to see how difficult it is for people to track wins through the week or even in a day. They pause, they think, they're like, gosh, I can't really think about anything. so through the time, through the weeks, through the months that we're working together, one, they start to realize that this is something that a man is going to be asking for. So they come in a little more prepared to think through what are my wins. But what we're trying to do is get your brain to start focusing on things that are going.

Amanda Escobedo:

right, things that are going well, things that are always working out for you that we take advantage of, even for the fact, you if we think of our health, my gosh, when things go wrong in our health, that really takes us out. Whether, you know, I'm so grateful that my heart is working, my lungs are working, my body is working, I have strength, my brain is working.

Amanda Escobedo:

There are times when I get migraines. As I've mentioned before, I've had a few open heart surgeries. So there's a thing when the ticker wasn't working, right? And during that process, my lungs were collapsed. So then there was a time where I could barely breathe walking on a flat sidewalk. And then when I'm always trying to work out, there's things that happen to my joints or I pull something, I have to rehab it. And so when my body is in full functionality, I'm in full gratitude.

Amanda Escobedo:

And even if it's not, I'm constantly in gratitude of what is working. We don't wanna take advantage of those things that are just working because when they aren't working, that's when, well, a lot of things start to dominate effects from there. But I invite you to start to practice for yourself, waking up first thing in the morning and really coming into a state of gratitude or reflecting at the end of the day, each day.

Amanda Escobedo:

such a great way to close your night and go to sleep with by identifying what went well today, what are my wins. And if you start to integrate that as a practice, you'll slowly start to rewire your brain to see the things that are working out for you. And the benefit is, you if you're ever talking about your wins, when I'm talking through this with my clients, what tends to happen is when we do identify a win, their energy fluctuates up.

Amanda Escobedo:

their energy, their flow, and it's that type of engagement, energy, excitement that will contribute to your flow. When you start to focus on things going right, you get excited. And we're trying to, again, get you into the state of flow and build momentum. So if you're in this depleted, low energy, the world is against me, everything's go wrong, nothing's working out for me.

Amanda Escobedo:

You can't be creative in that mindset. You cannot be creative. You cannot activate your human potential, which you are activating as the critter brain. And what we're trying to activate is your potential, your creativity, your voice of wisdom. And all of that comes in a difference of energy and influx of energy. So if we can redirect your brain's focus from everything going wrong to everything going right, you have that ability to do that. It's a practice.

Amanda Escobedo:

That could be the difference that makes the difference for you with just kicking you off in the right direction for your day or closing your night in your chapter. So something to consider. For this podcast today, we're actually going to be reviewing two different articles. They're both by The Morning Brew and at first glance,

Amanda Escobedo:

Both of these articles paint a bit of a scary picture of the job market. And I'm reviewing two markets because they connect with each other, because actually article one, as I read through, fed to article two. So article one, just so you're aware, was posted on November 15th, and then article two was actually an article that was posted November 6th. So a bit of the headlines for these, there's two different, as I mentioned, headlines. Number one is scam job postings.

Amanda Escobedo:

are surging as the market dries up. We're gonna break that down in just a minute, but those scam job postings, think we can all relate. We're getting those text messages by a recruiter that's saying they have a job offer for you and they're gonna pay you $600, whatever it is, and they've got a job for you. So I get 45 million of those text messages daily. It's really quite annoying. You'd think they would start to cultivate creativity and recognize

Amanda Escobedo:

Everyone's using that same scam. Come up with a new scam. Okay? We all see it. We all block it. No matter how many times I block it, it's coming from a new number. I will say they are being creative by just giving new numbers, figuring out how to text me through new numbers. But that's article one. That is the headline, Scam Job Postings. Those lovely text messages we're all getting are surging as the labor market dries up. The second article is,

Amanda Escobedo:

and this is the one that was kind of backdated to November 6th, the worst October for layoffs in over two decades. Individually, both of these headlines trigger so much fear, so much destruction in our job market. The world is endless. It's so terrible. Together, these narratives, they really create a narrative. The job market is collapsing and everything is getting worse.

Amanda Escobedo:

That's really how my brain processed these headlines. But when you actually take a closer look to the story, you'll find it's way more nuanced than the headlines are actually outlining for you. The headlines don't always tell the whole truth. And I wanna walk you through this because a big part of becoming a game changer, a founder, a builder, a visionary, a problem solver, purpose-driven leader,

Amanda Escobedo:

is learning how to think clearly in a world that profits from emotional reactions. Clickbait, right? So that's what this episode is really about. It's about helping you cultivate your creativity, your curiosity, your clarity, your leadership, and overall strengthening the inner game. That's always our goal, to strengthen the inner game.

Amanda Escobedo:

Now let's go into an unpack article one the headliner again, scam job posting. So this is about those text messages they're saying in the headlines, they're saying are surging as the labor market dries up. Now here's a summary of what the article as a whole is telling us. So job offer scams, they've actually risen by 19 % in the first half of 2025.

Amanda Escobedo:

Job seekers have lost almost $300 million to these scams. Text scams have jumped from 4,800 to 20,000 in just five years. Scammers impersonate recruiters, they create fake job postings, they push malware links, collect personal data. One writer even writes, worked for a few weeks, falling for these scams without pay.

Amanda Escobedo:

So these are real issues. Again, I think we can all relate. We're getting these text messages. I get so many of them. But then buried near at the bottom of this article, after the fear, your fear is activated by this article, the article admits these scams can actually exist in any kind of economy. So what a deceiving headline. The headline to me reads,

Amanda Escobedo:

So I'll read the headline one more time and I'll let you know how my brain is translating this. The headline says, scam job postings surging as the labor market dries up. It reads to me like there's a correlation. The job market is drying up. So when it's saying it's drying up, we're gonna go into like digging into that in just a second. And the scam job postings are increasing. So I'm reading as though they're correlated that.

Amanda Escobedo:

As the job market dries up, the scams are going up. You may be hearing it differently, but that's how my brain, if I'm doing like a quick scroll through either my newsletter or social media, that's how I would quickly, my brain would try and translate that. But then again, as you're reading through the actual article, they admit there's a whole nuanced line. These scams can actually exist in any kind of economy.

Amanda Escobedo:

So if that's the case, then why frame it as evidence that the labor market is drying up? Now, because these headlines again, create a cause and effect relationship, the article never actually proves a weak job market equals scam surges. And immediately after creating that impression, the article directs you to the second morning brew piece or article that I'm going to go through, reinforcing more job market fear.

Amanda Escobedo:

So again, I wanna increase our awareness to these headlines and I will give, you know, Morning Brew a little bit of credit because at the end they admit that these scams can occur in any economy. But it doesn't kind of remove the fear if you're quickly scrolling through, you're seeing headlines about job market drying up. It can be potentially reinforcing a narrative that you might already have in your head.

Amanda Escobedo:

So let's go into article two, because at the end of this article one about the scam job posting, it leads you to a link to article two, where it talks about the worst October for layoffs in over two decades. So that's the headline. And that's what links you from article one article two. And I have to say, the writer's pretty smart. They're getting, I'm guessing they wrote that previous article and they're trying to get more clicks on that. And they just drove you right back into an older article they wrote.

Amanda Escobedo:

And this one was posted again, November 6th, I believe. So this article is really about 153,074 layoffs occurred in October. The most for any October since 2003. Year to date, we've had 1.1 million layoffs year to date.

Amanda Escobedo:

And most of these layoffs have happened maybe in warehousing and tech were really hit the hardest. had a lot with the government, with Doge kind of coming through in the government as well. And the following reasons were outlined as why these layoffs were occurring. So cost cutting, automation, pandemic over hiring corrections, Doge related government contractor cuts, as I mentioned, rising operational costs, pullback in consumer and corporate spending.

Amanda Escobedo:

And then this article leads into a question that's bolded for you in this article. It says, should we blame AI? And it answers, maybe. But then here's the important part. So when they say maybe, what I wanna highlight for you is there's actually no evidence presented in this article at all that AI caused these layoffs.

Amanda Escobedo:

They reference when they say maybe they talk, they bleed into automation. They mentioned a big part and chunk of these layoffs are related to automation, but automation is decades old. So again, this article never references and says generative AI is a reason for job losses, but how

Amanda Escobedo:

that's a little muddy that they're trying to create for us when they're asking the question, should we blame AI? And then they respond maybe, and then they say that automation is a reason for job loss. One of the reasons. again, automation has been around forever. AI, generative AI is a piece of form, a type of automation. if you're skimming through and reading this article, if you have a narrative in your mind with all these other narratives that are being fed to us,

Amanda Escobedo:

you could easily interpret this article as AI is taking jobs. This is how these articles create emotional narratives without full context. And the other thing I wanna highlight with both of these articles, they're super short, super short. So one of the things I wanna dive in a little more is the automation confusion that many might be reading in this article. So I wanna reinforce automation does not mean

Amanda Escobedo:

AI automation again has existed for decades. Some examples of automation, payroll systems, email drip campaigns, customer service, phone menus, manufacturing conveyor belts, scheduling workflow tools, Excel macros, recruiting pipelines. Automation is really just about efficiency. It's about cost reduction. It's about consistency and eliminating repetitive tasks.

Amanda Escobedo:

AI is one form of automation. It's not the definition of automation. So when the article says automation, but frames it around the question, should we blame AI? It starts to blur it for the people that don't know the difference. And readers walk away potentially thinking automation means AI, AI means job loss, AI means it contributed to a bunch of the layoffs that just occurred.

Amanda Escobedo:

And this is exactly why we need clearer thinking in a headline driven world. When I say clear, this is what we're here to do is cultivate your clear mind, your critical thinking. So what's missing from these articles? So here's what neither piece of these articles emphasize. So the most complete jobs report was not released. So shutdowns, they reference delayed.

Amanda Escobedo:

or I'm assuming they actually didn't say shutdowns. I'm making an assumption that it's shutdown related is what delayed these job reports. So they noted in one of the articles, the one where they talk about the October, the highest in like a couple of decades at the end, it said, we do not have full context as the job report has been delayed. So my question goes to, if you don't have full context, then why create an article in the first place? If you do not have the context to back up.

Amanda Escobedo:

then why even post an article and a headline about this topic if you do not have the full context yet. The other thing too is layoffs. What I wanna highlight this article does not talk about, layoffs do not mean unemployment, an increase in unemployment. You can have spikes of layoffs without having an increase and a significant rise in unemployment. So that's another thing to just have a mental note of.

Amanda Escobedo:

So unemployment for context today is in the low 4 % range compared to past economic shutdowns in the early 2000 recession, it was 6%. The great recession was 10%. The pandemic peak was 14%. So today being 4%, maybe layoffs rose in October, but unemployment is not showing a collapse in over two decades.

Amanda Escobedo:

on how this article is like, it's the largest, I don't know, layoffs in the last decades in October. Again, you have to break down these articles because what they're saying can start to infer certain things that are not reality and not true. Another thing to consider when we're talking about layoffs is seasonality really matters. So at the end of the year, as an example, budgets reset, strategic cost cuts occur, hiring slows down.

Amanda Escobedo:

There's a delay in candidate movement due to holidays. And then also a lot of candidates don't want to start until the new year if they're at a current job because they want their bonus paid out as an example. So these are all patterns that occur in the season, especially the end of the year season when it comes to layoffs and job loss and like hiring, filling jobs, et cetera. these are patterns to note, not to panic about. Now,

Amanda Escobedo:

Let's bridge this into a coaching lens and why these fear-driven headlines really matter. Because fear-driven narratives, not cost-cutting, not automation, not seasonal layoffs, no, fear. Fear is the thing that blocks our creativity.

Amanda Escobedo:

That's the number one thing I want to continue to highlight. When your vibration is out of whack, when you're not grounded, you cannot critically think, you cannot cultivate your creativity. You are blocked. You're spiraling in worry town, fearful town. Fear shuts down the possibilities. Fear shuts down problem solving. Fear shuts down clarity. Fear shuts down intuition. Fear shuts down innovation.

Amanda Escobedo:

Whereas creativity is what grows your career. Creativity is what gets people hired. Creativity is what builds movements, companies, solutions. So when a headline starts to spark fear, your creativity starts to contract and your options start to shrink. And so this is what we're talking about today.

Amanda Escobedo:

As an example, let's say you are someone that recently got laid off and you're reading these headlines and you're trying to get another job, the more fear that's instilled with you, that's gonna block or slow down your opportunities to actually get another job. And so I bring news, I bring data, I bring narratives, I'm bringing this article to this podcast for a couple of reasons. I was actually asked, you know,

Amanda Escobedo:

Why do you talk about these type of articles within your podcast? What does that have to do with coaching? Well, let's talk about specifically this one and we'll tie it into coaching. Number one, I'm trying to increase awareness for all of you. I'm trying to increase awareness of narratives that are shaping your beliefs systems. Both of these two articles together, they create a very specific emotional story, danger.

Amanda Escobedo:

job market is collapsing. And so if I can increase the awareness for you that these headlines and the emotional narrative that is being put into what's supposed to be objective media, which is supposed to be fact-finding media, if I can increase your awareness of the emotional narrative that is attached to articles, I want you to start.

Amanda Escobedo:

asking yourself the question, is this the full picture? With whatever you're reading, with whatever is capturing your attention for eight seconds on social media. The goal with increasing your awareness is to increase the question, your curiosity, am I getting the full picture? The other thing I'm trying to do within bringing in these articles, breaking out the narratives is provide clarity. So to help you evaluate information more objectively instead of

Amanda Escobedo:

fearfully. So these headlines, again, they blur correlation with causation. They imply for this one in particular that AI job loss is occurring without any evidence. They push fear without highlighting context, without bringing in context. And so clarity is power. The more you can start to unpack these things that I've just unpacked for you, that correlation is not causation, that

Amanda Escobedo:

The AI job, even though it's inferring AI job, there's actually no data that's verifying this. Those are the things I'm trying to provide more clarity for you so you can be more in your power when you are reading through and scrolling through and not being influenced by these articles. Now, another reason why I'm bringing this article is leadership in culture. So to examine how really narratives influence creativity.

Amanda Escobedo:

So going back to fear driven headlines can shut down your creativity before you even realize it. And creativity is one thing that every founder, every leader, every builder needs to succeed. So examining articles like this becomes a way to ask, how do I stay creative in a noisy world? And when I say a noisy world, it's these type of headlines that create a lot of emotional responses.

Amanda Escobedo:

that really start to gray what the truth and reality is. When you're being consumed by all of these, this is what can potentially create anxiety, distraction, and we're trying to keep you focused and creative on building out, living out your purpose and however you're trying to impact the world. And then the other thing here at what I'm trying to do with bringing these articles into play for you is activation. To awaken the problem-sider,

Amanda Escobedo:

the problem solver inside of you. That is what this whole podcast is about. Being the next game changer, showing up as a game changer and being a game changer is really about problem solving. So when you understand systems at play, narratives at play, patterns at play, this is when you have the ability to increase your consciousness, stop reacting and start creating. This is what the game changers do.

Amanda Escobedo:

And so the other reason why I want to bring this in, so that's from like a coaching lens that I'll share of why I'm bringing this article and breaking both of these articles out for you. The other reason why I'm bringing this article into play to support you is, you know, if you are one that's going through a career transition, if you're facing layoffs, you're in fear, right?

Amanda Escobedo:

Maybe you're in a job, but you're facing burnout. Maybe you're in a job and you're facing misalignment with the type of work that you're doing. You're feeling in general uncertain. What I want to highlight is you're not failing. You are actually entering the hero's journey. Have you heard of it? So let me explain clearly what the hero's journey because most people don't actually realize how universal this experience is.

Amanda Escobedo:

So again, if I go back to if you just lost your job, you're in a career transition, you might be feeling fearful, uncertain, or if you're in a job that you feel is not an alignment of you, you've been feeling stuck for days, for months, for years. What we're both uncertain about, or what we're really uncertain about is what is the other side of leaving that job? Or will I get another job ever again? The brain critter starts to spiral in these situations.

Amanda Escobedo:

And so the experience that you're going through is what I would like to categorize as the hero's journey. And the hero's journey is really the backbone of every Hollywood movie. It's the blueprint of human transformation. It's the ordinary world that we all live in. Life feels stable, predictable, familiar.

Amanda Escobedo:

And then at some point where everything's going fine, stable, familiar, right? We get the call, the call to the adventure. I think we would not call it a call to adventure. It's a disruption to your world is what it really is. And that disruption from a career sense could look like a layoff. It could look like burnout. It could look like a career identity crisis. It could look like a sense of misalignment. And this can apply to your marriage.

Amanda Escobedo:

your relationships, your finances, your health. And the other piece within this, when we're in this call to an adventure, we're getting the call, which means our world is being disruptive, resistance starts to occur and resistance looks like you start to feel fear. You start to doubt yourself. You want to stay in what's familiar. When I say resistance, it means you're not in an acceptance mode, just looking forward to what is the adventure that this next

Amanda Escobedo:

next step is going to be, right? So if you lost your job and that was not a choice of yours, rather than being like, ooh, all right, what's the new opportunity I get to create? How do I wanna design this next chapter for myself? Most people go into resistance, which is fear mode. And so the world, the road of trials, part of you going through this process is uncertainty, it's discomfort, it's not knowing.

Amanda Escobedo:

what is next, as I previously mentioned. And this is where most people freeze. They get stuck because they choose fear in this process. And the transformation, this is actually when you're in the hero's journey to get to the other side and to truly get out of the hero's journey, it's a transformational process. It's the moment you shift from fear to curiosity that everything starts to change.

Amanda Escobedo:

Your intuition starts to strengthen. Your clarity starts to return. Your creativity starts to activate. And you begin to all of sudden see what is possible, new possibilities. And you return with wisdom. You start to emerge as someone new, aligned, purposeful, more courageous because you decided to

Amanda Escobedo:

go on this journey, the hero's journey. Not to completely resistant, you've shifted from resistance into acceptance and you're returning to your wisdom. And so this really isn't an ending of an era, it's a new beginning, it's becoming of you. And so for myself, I've lived the hero's journey quite a few times. I'm in one right now.

Amanda Escobedo:

on a lot of different aspects, but you know, during the pandemic, as an example, I lost my job. I was another statistic, like everybody else. And at that same moment where I lost my job, I felt the same amount of fear that you might be feeling right now. If you're in this same predicament, there was uncertainty, there was panic. There was what if I never have the opportunity to recover and I'm eating hot dogs out of a trash can, right? The, am I going to burn through my savings fear?

Amanda Escobedo:

But here's what I did not expect through the process of the hero's journey. I had been praying for clarity before the pandemic happens. I had been asking for God for more time because I had already started to feel and know that coaching was the direction that I wanted to go through, but I was feeling strapped for time. I was feeling burnt out. I was feeling stressed. And I remember praying hard to God saying, all right, God, I can feel this is the direction you want me to go to, but

Amanda Escobedo:

I'm struggling to figure out how to start, where to begin. I just don't have the time to think through and do all of this. Please create space for me. Be careful what you ask for. Because God delivers. The universe delivers. It's just never in, I would say, the way we want it to be delivered. But it delivered. All of a sudden, I had all the time in the world. And it's that reflection that I started to have that

Amanda Escobedo:

Maybe this is the new possibility. Maybe losing my job is the actual answer that I needed. And it's actually the circumstance that pushed me, propelled me into coaching, propelled me into a greater sense of purpose for myself, into building and powerhouse coaching, into a life that felt a lot more aligned than anything I had really ever known.

Amanda Escobedo:

And so what felt like the end in the moment of losing my job, I felt resentful, I felt fearful, I felt angry, I felt all these things. I started to pivot. The resistance started to fall. I started to receive. I started to come in with curiosity. I started to come in with a lot of courage. It requires you a lot of courage to venture on your own, right? And that's when everything began to shift for me. And I share this because I want you to know that your disruption

Amanda Escobedo:

What if it's also the doorway to your new destiny? What if everything you're experiencing where you feel like, gosh, why does it feel like everything's crashing down at me at once? My savings, my finances, my job, my relationships, whatever it is that's happening to you. What if this disruption is actually the disruption that the universe is trying to orchestrate exactly what you've been asking for?

Amanda Escobedo:

In order to give you what you've been asking for, things have to change, things have to move, things have to shift. So what if all this disruption is actually working for you? So if you're listening to this podcast and you're feeling stuck, if you're feeling uncertain, if you're feeling burnt out, if you're feeling misaligned, I want you to ask yourself maybe a few questions.

Amanda Escobedo:

What if this is my hero's journey? What if this is the moment that I am being called to transform? What if this disruption is actually a direction? What if creativity is the thing that helps me navigate through this hero's journey? You are not breaking, you are becoming.

Amanda Escobedo:

And if you want to unlock more of your purpose and design that next chapter for your life, I wanna offer and invite you to take a look at my Empowered Careers Workbook because it may be exactly what you need in this season. Now, the Empowered Careers Workbook is something that I created. It's a bunch of journaling questions, open, powerful, curious questions that are intended to access that intuition of yours, that are intended to get...

Amanda Escobedo:

you closer to the anxiety that you're feeling. It's intended to unlock the inner voice that knows the way. Now, a lot of these questions and the tools that I've incorporated within this workbook, are all inspired, majority of them are inspired by a Stanford-based framework in creativity in business. And this framework has helped countless number of Silicon Valley founders and hundreds of women actually after 9-11.

Amanda Escobedo:

which lost their husbands in a deep tragedy. And it really helped transform their tragedy into purpose. So as an example, a little context and background on these tools and this workbook. So Stanford University used to have an MBA course called Creativity in Business. And back then, was given to, it was developed for quite a few reasons.

Amanda Escobedo:

A bunch of the MBA programs back in the day were getting a lot of criticisms because a bunch of people were graduating and they weren't very creative. They were very analytical. Data was really important back in the day, but they didn't have a lot of self-trust. were indecisive. Additionally, Dr. Michael Ray is the creator of this course called Creativity in Business and the Foundation of These Tools.

Amanda Escobedo:

What he also noticed of his students is they got the high paying jobs, right? They got the big job titles. They got all the check boxes that society says that you need, the big house, all the things. And they came back to him and he recognized that they were lacking clarity. They were lacking direction and a vision for their life. They were lacking fulfillment, a sense of purpose. And so really what creativity is all about is it's a self discovery journey. It requires you to know thyself.

Amanda Escobedo:

And that's the foundation of this book. This book is all about helping you discover who you are, what your purpose is, what your values are. It helps you unlock that strong vision for your life that you wanna create. And so eventually this program called Creativity in Business was taken out of Stanford University and it was given to a couple hundred women that lost their husbands in 9-11.

Amanda Escobedo:

They had spent a year mourning their tragedy, seeing the therapist, helping them go through the grief cycle. But after they felt like they had processed what they had lost, they still were at a loss of what is my next chapter of my life, right? They had designed their life with their husband who has now passed. So what does this mean for now? Where do I go? What do I do? Who do I want to become? And so these women went through this course.

Amanda Escobedo:

They were given these same tools and when they were able to graduate from this course, they graduated as entrepreneurs, public speakers, authors. They were able to transform their tragedy and lead and make an impact on the world. And so that's what I'm inviting you to do. And this is where I'm talking about with this.

Amanda Escobedo:

Podcasts is how can we transform all the things that are going wrong into maybe a sense of purpose? Identify a problem that you're actually passionate about solving for how do we transform what you're experiencing as a threat is something that you're excited about challenge accepted something that you're excited to see how this can build you grow you Contribute to your resilience. And so I invite you to take a look at empowered careers. You can find it on Amazon

Amanda Escobedo:

This book again will help you clarify your purpose, unlock your creativity, access that inner wisdom, which Stanford University says is mistake free, understand your values, build more alignment in all of your decisions, and again, design that next chapter for you, give you clarity of a vision. That's all I've got for you today, folks. We are a shorter podcast today because I don't really have very many updates for you.

Amanda Escobedo:

But thanks for listening. My name is Amanda Escobedo. You have been listening to the Game Changer. If today sparks some insights, ahas, appreciations, or new perspectives, I'd be so grateful if you subscribed, left a review, and shared this episode with at least three people in your network who are ready to master the inner game and unlock their human potential. Your support will help others discover this resource.

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