motivation is personal

chinwag · Jul 23, 2026 · 28m

marisa went to a PMI Nashville roundtable on a random tuesday night — not an events thing, not her industry — and came out of it texting gabby photos of slides at 3am. the topic was motivation. the takeaway was that four people sitting in the same front row were motivated by four completely different things, and nobody would have known that if the instructor hadn't asked.

so we spent this one pulling that thread. why other industries are hungry to learn the people stuff while events assumes it already has it handled. leading without formal authority, which is every project manager and every…