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**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**
Ignite your PERSONAL POWER for a better self and better world.
How do you take what is breaking your heart and turn that into action, achieving impactful and sustainable change? Match-Striking for Beginners is your playbook to ignite power from the margin, inviting you to discover the pathway to a more just world by recognizing your personal power and unleashing the superhero within you.
In this road map for individual and collective change, Tracey Breeden draws on her own unique perspective and lived experience as a queer woman and shares actionable steps she used to amplify her own personal power to create organizational and societal change. The specific challenges and harm members of historically marginalized groups experience often slow or stop progress, but Tracey’s method incorporates essential practices and bold moves to help you break through those blockers to ignite your inner superhero, activate collective power, and drive the social change our hearts ache for.
Tracey Breeden is a thought leader, speaker, coach, advisor, and activist. From street cop to corporate executive, she spent over two decades as a safety and inclusion expert in public safety and leading efforts in Tech at Uber and Match Group, parent company of Tinder and Hinge. Her vision is to build authentic, equitable, and respectful communities, free from harm. Join her in the expansion of that vision, together empowering and igniting people toward a better self and a better world.
For anyone wanting to understand how to make a difference in this world -- and hear really relatable and inspirational stories along the way -- this is the book for you. The author was very intentional about both changing her life and remaining in service of others and it seems like this book is just one more example of that. - Amazon 5*
This book is exactly what I (and so many others) need. The tools, the encouragement, Tracey’s lived experiences, all of it together in one place helped me find my voice and ignite the power in me to create change. A must-read for anyone looking for a blueprint that is actionable and achievable. - Amazon 5*
A very accessible book, that deals with our lack of self-belief and societal conditioning in a relatable way. We all have it! Rather than trying to overcome it: interrupt the negative patterns. This book affirms that by accepting our authentic selves and taking action around what hurts our hearts, we are all capable of making an impact. - Amazon 5*
Tracey Breeden is a thought leader and queer activist, life coach, advisor, speaker and executive leader, with over two decades as a safety and inclusion expert working in public safety and leading efforts in tech at Uber and Match Group. She has a vision of building authentic, equitable, and respectful communities, free from harm.
Foreword
Introduction: For it is not the light that is needed, but fire…
Chapter 1: You are enough
Chapter 2: Disrupt the limiting voices and thoughts
Chapter 3: Find purpose and pathways in what breaks your heart
Chapter 4: Be fully and authentically you in every moment
Chapter 5: Your most powerful tool: Your voice
Chapter 6: Lay down your safety
Chapter 7: Assembling community for action
Chapter 8: Collective Activation: Move forward with boldness and disruption
Acknowledgements
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