Nanea Reeves | Co-Founder & CEO @ TRIPP

About this video

Nanea Reeves, CEO of Trip, shares her personal journey from a traumatic childhood marked by parental addiction and mental health struggles to building a successful career in tech and gaming. She discusses how early adversity shaped her resilience, the importance of attitude and negotiation in advancing as a woman in tech, and how she’s now channeling her experiences with meditation, gaming, and compassion into her current venture.

Key takeaways

• Nanea credits a compassionate therapist who taught her meditation with helping her survive childhood trauma and develop a hopeful worldview, while her sister—unable to see beyond being ‘damaged’—did not survive
• Being dismissed in the gaming industry nearly caused her to quit before a friend advised her to stay through the company’s IPO trajectory and change her attitude; when she shifted to a collaborative, team-player mindset, her peers’ treatment of her improved and she earned real power and negotiating leverage
• Nanea learned that success in business doesn’t shield you from life’s hardships; when her husband was dying, she chose to show up with joy and love rather than despair, which allowed her to experience their final moments together as profound and meaningful rather than tragic

Episode details: published March 12, 2018 · 1.7K views · 10:28 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The business ideas, figures and results discussed are the hosts’ and guests’ own claims, shared as brainstorming and entertainment — not verified facts and not investment advice.

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