burnout
Burnout isn't just exhaustion. It's bone-deep depletion from giving everything while running on empty. When passion turns to numbness. When motivation disappears. When you can't remember why you started. Founder burnout happens when you've been in survival mode too long. When rest feels impossible. When your nervous system stays in overdrive. When you've ignored signals until forced to stop. Recovery from burnout isn't weakness, it's necessary. These posts explore finding your way back.
Build a company, not just a business
Practical steps for building a high-trust, high-function team
The mythical CEO
There is no perfect in leadership. Why then is it so damn hard to accept our own imperfections?
Emotional Intelligence for Leaders: Why You Must Own Your Sense of Worth
To avoid burnout and scale as leaders, we must take back the judgment of our own worth
You are not talented enough to work 80 hours a week. And that's ok.
If Lebron is this serious about rest, maybe you should be too?
Why is it so hard to be happy?
My own complicated relationship with happiness.
New Sanity Pod Episode - Inc’s Lindsay Blakely
Lindsay has spoken with hundreds of founders over her years as a reporter and is in a unique position to help us normalize parts of the founder experience that can be hard to see clearly in our own heads.
Entrepreneur Burnout: The Dangerous Cycle of Tying Your Self-Worth to Your Company
What if your obsession with your company's success is the very thing driving you toward entrepreneur burnout, founder depression, and the collapse of your work-life balance?
Why CEOs should work 40-hour weeks
If the data is correct, you are not doing yourself any favors by grinding it out after 5 o'clock.
This Question Unlocked My Life's Purpose
I thought it was going to be just another casual meetup with a friend for Saturday brunch. But that ended up being the morning I discovered my life’s mission. And it has changed everything. Here’s the question that changed it all.
Are You Feeling Guilty for Resting? Your Value Is Not Your Output
This time of isolation and slowness has me facing a lifelong message I carry: that my value is tied to my productivity. If I work hard and have output to show for it, I matter and deserve to exist. That message no longer serves me. It might not be serving you either.
