🎙 Episode Overview: I share my apartment-hunting story in the Netherlands to illustrate how shifting from competition to collaboration can unlock unexpected solutions and build meaningful connections.

🔑 In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• How competitive mindsets shape healthcare, education, and organizations
• Why partnership often yields better results than competition
• My approach to finding collaborative solutions in challenging situations

🧠 Key Ideas to Take With You:

• Competition isn't always natural - it's often a cultural narrative we can rewrite
• Most "competitors" are potential collaborators facing similar challenges
• Partnership mindset opens possibilities that competition obscures

🎧 How to Get the Most Out of This Episode: Notice where competitive thinking might be limiting your perspective, and consider how reframing situations through a collaboration lens could reveal new opportunities.

🛠️ Practical Actions You Can Take:

• Identify one competitive situation you could reframe as collaborative
• Look for "unlikely partners" in your change efforts
• Ask: "How can we build community around this shared challenge?"
• Examine where militaristic or competitive language might be hindering progress

📲 Call to Action:

• Share this partnership mindset with your healthcare colleagues
• Join Changemaker Essentials to explore collaboration-based change
• DM me your experiences with turning competition into partnership