Healthy Gamer

Proud to announce a new partnership between Healthy Gamer and Nexon America focused on empowering the next generation of game developers! Through the Nexon’s Creator Workshops incubator program, Healthy Gamer will be providing career coaching tailored to help participants thrive in an evolving industry. Big shoutout to Aaron Ashby Romero and Dennis Bernardo from Nexon for spearheading this initiative and championing the future of gaming! We’re excited to support emerging talent with resources, insights, and mentorship that go beyond traditional paths, equipping them with the tools they need to succeed both professionally and personally. This collaboration is a testament to our shared belief that the future of gaming lies in nurturing innovative minds and fostering a resilient, mindful approach to career growth. Looking forward to the journey ahead with Nexon and to seeing these future leaders thrive!”

Proud to announce a new partnership between Healthy Gamer and Nexon America focused on empowering the next generation of game developers! Through the Nexon’s Creator Workshops incubator program, Healthy Gamer will be providing career coaching tailored to help participants thrive in an evolving industry. Big shoutout to Aaron Ashby Romero and Dennis Bernardo from Nexon for spearheading this initiative and championing the future of gaming! We’re excited to support emerging talent with resources, insights, and mentorship that go beyond traditional paths, equipping them with the tools they need to succeed both professionally and personally. This collaboration is a testament to our shared belief that the future of gaming lies in nurturing innovative minds and fostering a resilient, mindful approach to career growth. Looking forward to the journey ahead with Nexon and to seeing these future leaders thrive!”

Healthy Gamer has been hosting workshops with our Career Community on Discord. As a hiring manager, I’ve had the pleasure of co-hosting two sessions with Syaidah Awls, our HR Administrator. We had a great intro on how to get your first professional job in August, and a follow-up in October where we answered questions directly from the community. On October 29th, we’ll be hosting another workshop on job security, burnout, imposter syndrome, and other anxieties young people face in today’s job market. The best part is that these advice sessions we lead are based on our lived, real-world experiences. We both have adult children that we give advice, too. In our first workshop, we brought up the benefits of using your schools job fairs to connect with hiring managers. As it happens, my son, James McKim, attended his first job fair at the University of Louisville shortly after. He met with multiple businesses, and landed his first interview! Even if he doesn’t get the first job he interviews for, it gave him a chance to create and practice his “elevator pitch”. We try to provide real advice to help this digital generation: Put yourself out there! It gives you the opportunity to get better, and build confidence. And, it only gets easier every time you do it. I wanted to share that advice can help, and that I try to give advice as if I were talking to my own friends and family. It’s been truly rewarding to be able to use my experience to help provide perspective to our younger generations. If you’re interested in attending our next workshop, join us here on Oct 29th:

This November, we're teaming up with Healthy Gamer to focus on mental health for our gaming community. Healthy Gamer, founded by psychiatrist Dr Alok Kanojia MD MPH, supports the internet generation through content, community, and coaching to promote mental wellbeing. The team here at Movember have curated a playlist of mental health content just for our Mo gamers 👉 https://bit.ly/3UbEY3d To further our commitment to improving mental health for boys and men, we’re proud to share that Dr. K and Movember’s own Dr. Zac Seidler have joined the advisory council of the American Institute for Boys and Men; a non-partisan think tank dedicated to enhancing the wellbeing of boys and men across the US. Together, we’re pushing forward for better mental health.

I asked Dr. Alok Kanojia MD MPH of Healthy Gamer how we can avoid burnout — and his answer surprised me. Basically, most of us have an unfortunate reaction to our content’s performance that looks like this: • When our content performs poorly, we blame ourselves. We think we are bad and we made a bad thing. • But even when our content performs well, we still don’t give ourselves the credit. We feel like we got lucky. So no matter what happens, we don’t feel good about our work or the outcome. Heads you win, tails I lose. So how do we fix it? The first step is attributing positive and negative outcomes equally. If you blame yourself for bad results, “blame” (praise) yourself for the good results too. Or, even better, recognize that ALL outcomes are outside your control to some degree. All you can control is your input. Take pride in the work and enjoy the process, regardless of outcome.