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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 treating the symptom — providing short-term relief — or solving the system — addressing the root causes that sustain affordability and growth? Through this lens, Amanda explores how shared American values like opportunity, innovation, freedom, and fairness shape our solutions, and how both perspectives hold part of the truth.

Ultimately, this episode invites listeners to move beyond polarization and into creative problem-solving — to bring diverse ideas together, integrate tension, and design solutions that serve the whole. Because progress doesn’t come from choosing sides; it comes from curiosity, reflection, and the courage to create.

💭 Reflection Prompts

• What problem are you really trying to solve — the symptom or the system?
• How do your values influence the solutions you choose and the ones you resist?
• What might happen if, instead of rejecting an opposing view, you got curious about what truth it might reveal?
• How can you bring diverse perspectives together to design more creative, sustainable solutions — in your work, your community, or your leadership?
• What if the next “big solution” didn’t come from government — but from you?