Jessica Pettitt is a diversity and social justice educator. She talks about her new book Good Enough Now and how teams can learn to collaborate at a deeper level, embrace diversity, and get real with each other. What You’ll Learn * How to be Good Enough Now * The three common response patterns and how to identify yours * How your response patterns can help you collaborate at a deeper level About Jessica Pettitt Jessica Pettitt, M.Ed., CSP, pulls together her stand up comedy years with 15+ years of diversity trainings in a wide range of organizations to serve groups to move from abstract fears to actionable habits that lead teams to want to work together. With a sense of belonging and understanding, colleagues take more risks with their ideation, conserve precious resources through collaboration, and maintain real connections with clients over time. Resources * Jessica Pettitt’s website * Book: Good Enough Now * Freebies and handouts from Good Enough Now Weekly Challenge Take some time and create a list of your crucible moments in your life. Identify how your third rail showed up in each of them. What do you notice? Transcript Feel like reading instead of listening? Download the free transcript or read it below. Enjoy! Transcript for Episode #081: Be Good Enough Now with Jessica Pettitt Amy Climer: Welcome to The Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode 81. This podcast is about teaching you how to lead innovation in teams. A part of leading innovation is developing a team of people with different perspectives and different backgrounds who can engage in conflict when needed. Today, I have invited Jessica Pettitt to share her perspectives on building diverse teams. Jess has been a professional speaker and a diversity trainer for over 15 years. In that time, she has learned that a truly diverse team isn’t necessarily one where everyone looks different, but one where there are different personalities and styles and different backgrounds on the team. The thing is, it is hard to create a truly collaborative team that is diverse because, often, those different personalities and different styles can create conflict, which might be uncomfortable and many of us want to avoid. After Jessica was leading diversity training for about a decade, she started noticing certain trends. From there, she created a model that she calls Good Enough Now. It is about understanding how to take action that is good enough now and not waiting for the perfect moment or waiting for permission or waiting for when you are sure you will not offend someone. It is about making connections with others, even though you might mess up. Those connections are critical for collaboration and that collaboration is critical for innovation. Jess and I have known each other for about ten years and she is an absolute rock star. She is a certified speaking professional, which is a designation that professional speakers can get once they are really amazing. It is very hard to get. She has won awards for speaking. One of the things I love about Jess is that she is so real and authentic herself. Whenever I am hanging out with her, I know that she is not putting on an act or a show. This is her. This is the real Jess. Jess, thank you so much for always being awesome and authentic. Today, Jess is going to share a ton of knowledge, experience and stories with us. If you happen to be a note-taker, grab a pen. Jess mentions several a href="https://goodenoughnow.