Nanea Reeves | Co-Founder & CEO @ TRIPP

TL;DR

Nanea Reeves, CEO of TRIPP, recounts how childhood trauma from a heroin-addicted mother and mental breakdown led her to learn meditation, which later helped her navigate a sister's overdose death, a husband's terminal cancer, and a tech career.

Key insights

• Despite feeling scarred by childhood neglect, the ability to do hard things beyond her years became her strongest professional attribute.
• Rage quitting a mobile game company (which later went public) would have cost her career; instead, following a friend's advice to "show up with a good attitude even if you have to fake it" changed how
• She learned that "I wasn't playing the game, the game was playing me"; flipping to a team-player mindset ("How can I help us all win") let her get the same cash and prizes as male peers, provided she