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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 mismatched data. Using this as a case study, she teaches listeners to separate facts from tales, spot when fear is being sold as reality, and reclaim their ability to see the world more objectively.

From there, Amanda shifts into the inner game: how frustration and “brick wall” moments can actually be gateways to self-discovery and creativity. She shares how quieting external noise — especially media noise — is essential to hearing your own intuition and recognizing the signs, synchronicities, and inner nudges that are already guiding you.

The episode culminates in the powerful story of Jenny Wood, a former Google executive who left an 18-year career to pursue a more aligned path. Amanda uses Jenny’s journey — and her own layoff story — to illustrate the difference between living by external data (status, security, headlines) and living by inner knowing. Listeners are invited to reframe fear as a signal of growth, view their own career crossroads as part of the hero’s journey, and see themselves as Game Changers capable of transforming frustration into purpose, impact, and legacy.

Referenced Resources

• Morning Brew – “People open to rough work amid rough job market”
• Business Insider – “I quit Google after 18 years on the job. It was scary but I did it well — here’s how.”