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The One Where We Geek Out on Managing Change with Angela Blake
Description
Key takeaways:
- Non-tech concepts translate to a tech world
- Change is change, and how you navigate it, whether it's in a tech world or in a non-tech world is the same
- The importance of acknowledging peoples' feelings about change and address their concerns.
- The importance of explaing why the change is happening in order for others to embrace change more easily
- The importance of protecting your time, to maintain mental health
About our guest:
Angela Blake is passionate about helping people create happy cultures and selves. She believes that we all have unique perspectives that are both valuable and useful. The most fulfilling work she's done is to draw out those perspectives, use them to improve ways of working together, and help people make positive, lasting change. In other words, she's a coach. :)
Find us on:
- All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
- All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela
Show notes:
Transcript:
ADRIANA:
Hey, fellow geeks. Welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery DevOps, observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada. And geeking out with me today is Angela Blake. Welcome, Angela.
ANGELA:
Hi. Hi. Happy to be here. Thanks for having me.
ADRIANA:
Thank you for joining. I'm super excited to have you on. And where are you calling from today?
ANGELA:
I'm calling from a very humid Toronto, downtown Canada. I said that in such an odd order, but downtown Toronto and that. I'm on the waterfront down here. Very busy. Very warm. I'm loving it.
ADRIANA:
Awesome. And the waterfront is honestly, like, one of my favorite spots in Toronto in the summer. Same name. Beat that.
ANGELA:
Yeah. Yeah, I live down here. I work down here. I'm a waterfront person.
ADRIANA:
Oh, that's so perfect. Yay! Hooray for sunny days. Cool. Well, we're going to get started with some, I will say, lightning round slash icebreaker questions.
ANGELA:
I'm ready.
ADRIANA:
Are you ready?
ANGELA:
I think I am, I think I am.
ADRIANA:
Okay, let's do this. First question. Are you a lefty or righty
ANGELA:
Oh, a righty. 100%. Always have been.
ADRIANA:
All right. Are you an iPhone or Android user?
ANGELA:
I have to say I'm an iPhone person. I have all of the, I would say Apple products, so to speak. I love the compatibility.
ADRIANA:
I'm with you on that. Yes, I too am a “All things Apple.”
ANGELA:
Yeah. Yeah I just I like that everything just connects with each other. I don't have to really do much as a consumer or a user. I know Android has, like some amazing abilities to, personalize and customize, etc., but I'm good with what I get from Apple.
ADRIANA:
I'm with you. It's funny because all people are like, you can't customize Apple. I'm like, yeah, I'm okay with that. I