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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I celebrated 35 years in games yesterday by having a splendid time at the @gibiz.bsky.social HR Summit. Met inspiring folks, caught up with old colleagues, and delivered a neurodiversity roundtable with the excellent Sarah Brewster from Fresh Seed. Onwards to the next milestone! 📹 MacKenzie Griffith

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tickets still available for our 'Scale & Sustain' funding panel next Monday 28th at Warwick Uni. Sign up now to join me and our excellent panellists for all the do's, don'ts and hard-won lessons of funding your scaling business. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scale-and-...

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Scale and Sustain: Building Cash and Keeping it Coming

A panel discussion on funding, growth and playing the long game hosted with Reed Women in Tech.

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Excited to hosting this awesome panel next month for @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social's Creative Futures, in colab with Reed Women in Tech Community. Come learn about the potential, pitfalls and practicalities of accessing scaling and sustaining your business. ScaleandSustain.eventbrite.co.uk

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Scale and Sustain: Building Cash and Keeping it Coming

A panel discussion on funding, growth and playing the long game hosted with Reed Women in Tech.

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

To hell with being beach body ready – are you Beach Brain Ready? 🏖️ 🧠 ✔️ Last few places available – BOOK NOW! One week to go until my free 3-part coaching series designed to eliminate that pre-holiday crunch, properly disconnect while you're away, then reflect and regroup when you get back.

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Beach Brain Ready — Identity Spark Coaching

Beach Brain Ready holiday coaching programme, helping you prepare and handover calmly for holiday, make the most of your time away to really and regroup, and reflect on what you want to achieve for th...

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Ever tried blowing out your pre-holiday work candle gently instead of just burning it at both ends? 'Beach Brain Ready' will help you prepare calmly for time off work, so you arrive at your destination running on more than fumes and cortisol. Reserve your place here: www.identityspark.net/events

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We spend so much energy getting our bodies ready for a holiday that we completely forget about the thing that actually determines whether we enjoy it: our brain. If you work in games or tech, I’d bet good money you’ve done the pre-holiday death march. You know the one...

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FREE • Beach Brain Ready — Identity Spark Coaching

Three hours to prepare for, make the most of, and recharge from your summer break. Because your Out-Of-Office Deserves to mean something.

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Love it when you’re going from Leamington to Manchester just for the evening and your train is half an hour late arriving. 🙄 I’ll be there eventually @gameopolismcr.bsky.social!

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Getting laid off might be the best way to start the year. In 2025 nearly 250k tech jobs were impacted by layoffs (*via TrueUp), plus >5k people already in 2026. But it doesn't have to be a disaster if you're facing an uncertain future. Take inspiration from these 8 opportunities you now have:

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Delighted to become a Level Up Partner for games industry mental health awareness and advocacy charity @safeinourworld.org. After surviving my own burnout, menopause and ADHD, I'm just as passionate about de-stigmatising talk around wellbeing and inclusion, and can't wait to help. safeinourworld.org

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Week 1 back: surfing that fresh install energy Week 2: realising you're still on same old OS that was crashing before Career feels like it's buffering while everyone else is upgrading? Time for more than just a restart. Let's clear the cache. www.identityspark.net/events/careercraftingfeb26

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Great testimonial from a career coaching client that reinforces the magic that can come when you find the right coach/client match. Could WE be a match? Sign up for my FREE 'Pre-Year's Resolutions' career coaching workshop on 3 Dec to find out. Link in pinned post. #NationalCareerDevelopmentMonth

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

As #NationalCareerDevelopmentMonth comes towards a close, there are still places left on my FREE career reflection and coaching workshop next week. Make sure your career works for you and allows you to lean on your superpower values and skills. Sign up now to work out your pre-year’s resolutions!

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It's OK to spend time thinking about yourself this December instead of just others. I’m running a free coaching workshop on 3 Dec to help you take stock of your job, reflect on your 2025 achievements, and properly plan your 'Pre-Year's Resolutions' for 2026. #NationalCareerDevelopmentMonth

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Great response to the 🧑‍🎓 Student Career Firelighter 👩‍🎓 coaching sessions I just launched. If you're a student aged 16+ who wants meaningful, constructive and actionable help to take your next step then get in touch. #NationalCareerDevelopmentMonth #students #studentcareers #careers #careercoaching

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Great to catch up with @andrewbrazier.bsky.social at Warwickshire College. Ace to see they're continuing to deliver incredible, forward-thinking courses for games, esports & digital creative media students. A great option for anyone after a career in creative tech. #NationalCareerDevelopmentMonth

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Do students know how great they are? And can they tell you? Even with ace exam results and extra-curriculars, students can struggle to join dots into a clear path that they're excited by and can articulate. The Student Career Firelighter is the answer! Just £40 for #NationalCareerDevelopmentMonth

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Great AMA chat this morning with the wonderful @seffers007.bsky.social via the Great Northern Games Discord. We did a deep dive on my recent blog, and the importance of understanding how we get in our own way when having business conversations. Thanks again for having me, Jamie!

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The biggest thing our teenagers need is the ability to recognise and value their own strengths. Spent the morning mock interviewing Y13s at my son's school. The most common theme was how few of them were able to give themselves credit for their strengths and values, if they recognised them at all.

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Joyous and energised time at last week's awesome inaugural @gamerepublic.bsky.social New Horizons event. Huge props to @seffers007.bsky.social & team for a thoughtful, engaging and positive couple of days, and for your ongoing support and encouragement. Looking forward to next year!

Game Republic New Horizons entry badge and lanyard plus Natalie Griffith's Identity Spark Coaching business card

Mario and Mega-Man characters as pixel street art painted on the side of a building

Jamie Sefton at a podium opening the New Horizons conference while wearing an Indiana Jones hat

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I'm heading to @gamerepublic.bsky.social New Horizons on Wednesday, for my first games event since Covid. My nerves about hitting the circuit again led me to realise that the most important networking conversations we ever have are the ones we have with ourselves. Check out my blog for more. <3

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Proud to have joined @gamerepublic.bsky.social! Still inspired by founder @seffers007.bsky.social, GR’s such an important presence in the North of England. 💪 Look forward to seeing folks at GR’s New Horizons event next month too – LMK if you want to meet there. (Coaching discounts for GR members!)

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Delighted to have earned a Merit in my Life Coaching Diploma this week, 9 months to the day since I started the course. If you’re a games, tech or creative pro and interested in compassionate, empowering coaching from someone who truly understands your sector and its challenges then do get in touch.

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SpecialEffect @specialeffect.org.uk · 07/07/2025

It costs on average £2,000,000 a year to run SpecialEffect, providing free support and access to tech for physically disabled people all over the world. Sign up to become a regular giver, and you’ll help support people like Shaz for the rest of his life! www.specialeffect.org.uk/news/your-re...

Two people smiling and embracing while posing for a photograph, one using a wheelchair, at a sunny outdoor event.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Ever notice how anti-DEI folks lift up some of the least qualified people, proving why DEI matters? Obama went to Harvard and taught constitutional law at U Chicago; now we get a guy who can’t grasp high school economics. Yet we hear nonstop about diversity hires. Seen in a Toronto Star headline.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“You can’t have your cake and eat it too” is such a damn stupid phrase…I don’t want to own a cake for, like, display purposes. Is that a thing people want?? A /liability/?? No, I want to put it in my god damned mouth.

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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Nothing - absolutely nothing - prevented news organizations from running this headline before the election, when it was equally true as now and could have made a difference.

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Excited to announce my new business – Identity Spark Coaching. After 35+yrs in games (and surviving burnout), I'm prioritising my wellbeing and using my strengths to help lift up others. Limited free coaching sessions now available to help me build my practice hours: app.delenta.com/ta/@Identity...

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I'm sorry for raining on this parade, but the "transgender mice" talking point is bullshit, but not because someone mistook "transgenic" for "transgender." The blog post that kicked it off (from a partisan bullshit website) listed a number of papers testing the effects of sex hormones on animals.

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

America, just in case you thought Friday went well here’s how the London Times saw it …..

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Thanks for the Department of Truth tip-off on the pod @nndroid.bsky.social! I'd totally missed the new volume. Now enjoying a rainy Friday with a mug of Earl Grey and an internal anxiety attack about what's fact and what's fiction. I mean, that's how most political issues are best processed, right?

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Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com · 18/02/2025

Starting a new studio or biz & need tech or marketing advice? Or stuck in a rut & need some fresh perspective / a sympathetic ear / coffee / cocktail? Ansible is heading out to these events soon, or ping me a line - I'd love to hear what you're up to & help if I can 👐

The image represents a variety of events Ansible Comms will be attending soon, with an open invitation to connect with folks seeking fresh marketing strategy, technical advice, or leadership guidance:
Viva! Marketing 27th Feb
Games Growth Summit 28th Feb
Mobile World Congress 3rd - 5th March
GDC 17th - 21st March
London Games Fest - throughout April

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I mean, it already felt pretty damn bad but seeing it all presented in this way is pretty stark…

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

no no we don't say "empty carbs" anymore. the preferred term is "emotional support carbs"

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I don’t understand those on the left who respond to someone agreeing with them with “What took you so long?” Take the win. Welcome the convert. Grow the coalition.

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Natalie @ Identity Spark @identityspark.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

@iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social listening to Fascism book (thanks for the podcast preview btw). Horrifying but vital. Thank you both. One exceptionally banal complaint tho - any idea why the audiobook edition isn't on Goodreads? How am I supposed to correctly validate my reading?!

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