Dana Pake: Embracing The Detours With A Player’s Mentality
Dana Pake: Embracing The Detours With A Player’s Mentality
Dana Pake is a Seattle-based Shameless Mom to two daughters, Ellie (10) and Holland (7). A recovering people pleaser and perfectionist, she’s a work-in-progress learning to savor the present and the impermanence of life with light-hearted flexibility. She’s a lot like you. Working every day to be the best version of herself while simultaneously breaking the mold of her roles as wife, mom, daughter, sister, and employee.
Everyone has a story. Hers is punctuated by turning hardships into gifts. From her parent’s divorce, living on her own since she was a senior in high school, weathering her father’s suicide at age 19, outrunning Hurricane Maria and helping her husband through a difficult health episode, Dana has learned to metabolize hardship for inward and upward growth.
When she’s not spending her days creating in real-life moments and human interactions that matter at events as an experience designer, you can find her planning her next trip to parts unknown (whether that’s exploring new corners of the world with her family or discovering new versions of herself).
Listen in to hear Dana share:
- The impact of her parents divorce and how she became a parental figure to her sister at age 8
- The impact of losing her father to suicide at age 19
- How she and her family narrowly escaped Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and set off on a year-long nomadic adventure with her husband and two young daughters
- How she’s used work to hide, escape, and avoid pain, grief and growth – and how it’s caught up with her
- Her family motto: embrace the detours
- The power of the victim vs player mentality
- How owning her resilience informs her personal and professional decisions today
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