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Love of the Game: Are You Playing the Right One in Your Career?

In this episode of Lead with Spark, Lynsey borrows the phrase “love of the game” from sports and brings it straight into your career, leadership, and life.

Instead of blaming yourself for a lack of motivation, you will explore why your drive always follows your why, and what it means if your “love of the game” has faded. Lynsey walks through four possibilities, right game wrong position, right game wrong team, right game right team but you have forgotten your why, or you are playing the wrong game altogether. Using her SparkLife framework of values, superpowers, and non negotiables, she helps you diagnose where you might be out of alignment and what that means for your next step. You will get powerful reflection questions to clarify why you are playing, whether you still love the game, and how to design a role, team, or season that actually sparks life. This is a must listen for women leaders, high achievers, and professionals who feel successful on paper but quietly wonder, “Is this really my game?”

By the end of this episode, listeners will:

  • Understand why drive always follows a clear, compelling why
  • Recognize the difference between loving the game and just surviving it
  • Identify whether they are in the right game, wrong position, wrong team, or wrong game entirely
  • Use values, superpowers, and non negotiables as a lens for career alignment
  • Walk away with reflection questions to realign their work with what truly sparks life

One line to take with you

When your why is misaligned, it is not a motivation problem, it is a game problem.

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