Challenger Podcast with Peter Geng

Ever wondered what mental health issues actually look like? How do I know if I have mental health issues? How can you tell? How do you treat it?How do you succeed despite having mental health issues?Join my conversation with my friend Bhavya, an engineering leader, who is thriving with her own mental health issues. Let’s see how she has tackled this issue and hopefully we can all learn something from her journey.

Bhavya failed engineering … twice… she lost her friends, she didn’t get the support she needed from her parents, but she still rose to the challenge and fought through the hardship and finished. Now she is engineering manager at a prominent tech company.Let’s find out together how she was able to rise past her failures and get to where she is today. Plus, we explore deeper the relationship between her and her family and unpack valuable lessons from which we can all benefit.

Failing is almost never good, but it should be. Hamish, my career coach, talks about how failure is the best way to learn and build an amazing life. If you’ve switched jobs or careers, don’t be so hard on yourself. You had the courage to take on a new challenge in your life, and some missteps are to be expected. You will learn and become a better person because of this new journey that you’ve taken.Reach out to Hamish if you want to get a deeper dive into how to navigate your work life. You can find him at https://www.greenfieldcoaching.com/

Looking to change your job or your career? Lacking the motivation to do your best? Looking for a new job? We’ve all been there, but how to do it right?Listen to my conversation with my career coach Hamish as he gives some pointers on how to look for when to change your job/career, how to get the motivation to actually do it, and how to do it gracefully.Reach out to Hamish if you want to get into a deeper dive in how to navigate your work life. https://www.greenfieldcoaching.com/

Your values are the most important thing that will drive you forward and help you to achieve the things you want in your life. How to find your value is often difficult. Let’s talk with Long John about how he found his and maybe it can inspire you to find your values too.

Are you the duckling that looks calm from afar but actually you’re furiously paddling underneath the water? Long John is an overachiever that has found his breaking point. Let’s find out how he has navigated his successes and failures and the lessons he learned to succeed in the long term.

Let's find out how our guest, Alli defied all odds to get into UC Berkeley, start a business, switch into tech despite all the nay-sayers in her life... including her husband. Alli will also share some of her techniques in how to find your life-long calling.As Alli and I discussed in the podcast, please go get Cracking the PM Interview https://amzn.to/3wkSkOj to help you start your own business or progress in your career.

Let's find out how our guest, Sasha, ran away from her home at 18 just before going to college and overcame many challenges in her life to become a leader in a biotech startup, director at an accelerator, and an organizer for Burning Man.