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b'Johanna Faries is currently the General Manager of Call of Duty. She is highly involved, especially with their Esport league, where she is head of the league. She was also the commissioner of Call of Duty Esports before transitioning to this role. Prior to that, she worked at the National Football League where she was Vice President, she was involved in business development and marketing strategy and fan development, and she was on a pathway to continue to rise up that corporate \\u201cladder.\\u201d She\\u2019s also a musician. When she graduated from Harvard, she moved to California and started writing songs and making music. I think what makes Johanna really unique is that she\\u2019s got multiple sides to her. She is a complex person. She\\u2019s highly driven, she\\u2019s highly ambitious, but she also has a lightness to her that is really likable and is really refreshing. She\\u2019s clearly very smart and very bright, but she\\u2019s also someone who seems to be trying to be grounded. \\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nJohanna had a number of amazing insights during our conversation. Some of them include:\\n\\u201cI\\u2019ve always been thinking about spirituality, thinking about relationships with larger forces than ourselves\\u2026 why are we here type questions\\u201d (7:15).\\n\\u201cI often have felt burdened by my obsession with theology and the spiritual path\\u201d (9:10).\\n\\u201cI balance those questions, that are often never-ending and open-ended questions, with very tactical work day-to-day as a business executive\\u201d (10:00).\\n\\u201cI\\u2019m fascinated by all of us because I think we\\u2019re all wrestling with the same question\\u201d (10:45).\\n\\u201cIt is a very scary part of the process to actually stop and reflect and really think about how fulfilled your soul might be\\u201d (13:15).\\n\\u201cIf I could spend 30 minutes a day interviewing people like you\\u2019re interviewing me and ask them \\u2018Where are you in the faith journey?\\u2019, no matter what the response is, I find it fascinating\\u201d (13:30).\\n\\u201cIt\\u2019s where I\\u2019m at now, I don\\u2019t know where I\\u2019m going to be at 3 years from now\\u201d (15:10).\\n\\u201cIt\\u2019s not just this time of great resignation or the great pandemic, it\\u2019s also this moment of great permission to pause collectively and reflect\\u201d (18:00).\\n\\u201cWhat does great leadership look like going forward? What level of empathy needs to come through each and every day to enable people to do their best work?\\u201d (19:05).\\n\\u201cI am so goal-oriented as a leader, I\\u2019m so big-picture, so vision-setter, I sometimes lose sight of the intricacies of the people doing the detailed work actually enabling you to summit in the first place\\u201d (22:00).\\n\\u201cI have really learned how important it is to stop and check in with all of those parts of somebody on my team. It matters. It matters to building trust, it matters to seeing them as more than just getting to the top of Mount Everest\\u201d (23:40).\\n\\u201cI\\u2019ve learned how to not under-express my tendencies around introversion because my version of being an introvert means that solitude is my happy space\\u201d (26:30).\\n\\u201cI exert high extroverted energy in my roles as a business leader, but I also need these moments of solitude to really recharge\\u201d (26:50).\\n\\u201cI have to really think about how I\\u2019m going to spend my time for maximum impact\\u201d (29:15).\\n\\u201cEvery day cannot be so rote that the predictability undermines creativity\\u201d (30:00).\\n\\u201cEvery great leader thinks about time, energy, focus, and the triangulation of those things\\u201d (31:05).\\n\\u201cI feel very blessed in this moment in time because these passions have all intersected and interwoven in ways that feel very balanced\\u201d (31:45).\\n\\u201cCreativity and art have this power that goes beyond language, nationality, our indoctrinations, and our individual choices\\u201d (35:45).\\n\\u201cI\\u2019m a both/and kind of a gal\\u201d (41:40).\\n\\u201cThere\\u2019s nothing more powerful than great storytelling to move people\\u201d (50:40).\\n\\u201cEverything is timing. What isn\\u2019t timing?\\u201d (52:30).\\n\\u201cWhat an amazing time because of the convergence that\\u2019s happening\\u201d (57:30).\\n\\u201cWe\\u2019re connecting dots all the time\\u201d (1:06:40).\\n\\u201cWe\\u2019ve created a societal normality around perfectionism\\u201d (1:10:35).\\n\\u201cWe are inundated with'