{"id":10828,"date":"2023-12-19T15:25:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T15:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/?p=10828"},"modified":"2025-01-20T13:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T18:08:34","slug":"coffee-break-a-conversation-with-victoria-chambers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/coffee-break-a-conversation-with-victoria-chambers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Break: A Conversation with Victoria Chambers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to Coffee Break, a Greenspace Series where we dive deep with one of our team members to uncover their personal stories, perspectives, and new ideas \u2014 or maybe even learn about some of their hidden talents that we never knew about.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Victoria Chambers is well known at Greenspace for her love of live music\u2014 having attended an impressive 30 concerts last year\u2014 and her passion for travel. Notably, she joined our scheduled Zoom interview from beautiful Costa Rica, where she\u2019s been working for the last couple of weeks. She\u2019s a Sr. Customer Success Manager here at Greenspace and a master of work-life balance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI put a lot of effort in at work and I love what I do, but I also respect my personal time and the life I have outside of work. That gives me a lot of balance, reminding myself that work doesn\u2019t have to be my whole personality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But she hasn\u2019t always protected her life outside of work in this way:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was working in corporate banking, I was often working 12 or 14 hour days. My roommate complained that she never saw me, because even on Saturdays, I would sleep in so late just because I was so exhausted from my week. It was hard to find my daily work meaningful, which is the opposite of how I feel now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This \u2018grindset\u2019 that used to dominate her life started back in undergrad, where she completed her B.S. in Biology. Since almost everyone wanted to go to med school, it bred a highly competitive nature in her program.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn one of my very hard 2nd year Biology courses, the Prof says, \u2018Okay, everyone raise your hand if you want to go into med school,\u2019 and the majority of the 200-300 person lecture raised their hands, and he was like, \u2018Yeah, two of you will get in\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Victoria was likely one of the few that had no interest in med school or lab work so, once she graduated, she decided to join the military part time while getting her MBA (the work ethic continues).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy father was in the RCMP back in the day, my grandfather was in the Navy, and my school growing up made it mandatory to do 6 years of Army cadets\u2014so when my dad mentioned it offhand, it seemed like the logical choice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Victoria chose to leave the military once her MBA was complete in 2019, taking many of the valuable lessons and skills she learned into the rest of her life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think my biggest takeaway from the Military was the structure. Perhaps I\u2019m more motivated to be Type A and organized in a lot of ways, because I think I can be a bit scatterbrained otherwise\u2014like I\u2019ll leave a credit card in my pants pocket and forget about it for 6 months.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She also learned leadership skills and how to be a team player:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a very real group mentality. Don\u2019t be lazy, because that\u2019s when your peers will start telling you what to do. And if you work hard to support others, they\u2019ll generally treat you with respect. When you step up to a leadership role in this environment, you learn pretty quickly how to speak your mind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

These lessons have carried over into Victoria\u2019s personality now. Most people at Greenspace know her as being passionate, direct, and not afraid to articulate her thoughts\u2014especially since we have a culture that always welcomes suggestions for improvements and new initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s never met with like \u2018Well, why would you do that?\u2019. Instead it\u2019s, \u2018Yeah that sounds great, let\u2019s see how it plays out.\u2019 And I feel like at Greenspace I\u2019ve had a lot of impact of both my team and others across the company because I can share ideas and everyone is supportive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She spoke passionately about our work at Greenspace, and some of the ground that we still need to cover.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing a lot of work to improve the actual services and treatments being administered to individuals. But it\u2019s certainly not the only space in mental health that needs improvement\u2014there\u2019s still some very big gaps in the system that we\u2019re working to address.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She talked to us about the lack of pathways to get people the help they need, which results in too many falling through the cracks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes me kind of wake up a little bit, the fact that the system\u2019s really far from perfect. Talking to providers and working with them to track people\u2019s progress through treatment\u2014which is one of the only ways to catch those early warning signs\u2014can really be the thing that alters the course of someone\u2019s life. That\u2019s what motivates me to be involved in the work that we do. \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to Coffee Break, a Greenspace Series where we dive deep with one of our team members to uncover their personal stories, perspectives, and new ideas \u2014 or maybe even learn about some of their hidden talents that we never knew about. Victoria Chambers is well known at Greenspace for her love of live […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[63,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee-break","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}