founder psychology Sanity Notes #006: Going gently into the new year The new year is a great time to reset. Applying some self-compassion might help.
founder psychology Sanity Notes #004: The power of meeting others where they are Finding yourself wishing your co-founders, employees, or investors would change? Start with accepting them where they are.
leadership Sanity Notes #003 : Your metrics are not your worth. This is a good year to remember that the top-level metrics of your company are not the measure of your worth as a leader.
founder psychology Sanity Notes #002 : What if you could not fail? How might you be free to lead and create if your own sense of self was not on the line?
burnout An argument against rushing Your presence and creative attention mean more to your people and your work than all the effort you can muster. Maybe it's time to relax.
burnout For real leaders, dependency is not a dirty word We have glamorized the solo, impervious leader at our own peril. Real strength comes from reliance on others.
leadership How to get your leadership team to actually be a team. An exploration in helping your leaders check their egos at the door and actually work together.
emotions Why do we listen worst to those we love most? Romantic partners, kids, co-founders, employees...often the more we feel is at stake the harder it is for us to really show up.
leadership A Blessing for Leaders If you are experiencing in your own journey a sense that what got you here will not get you where you need to go, you are not alone.
imposter syndrome The mythical CEO There is no perfect in leadership. Why then is it so damn hard to accept our own imperfections?
founder psychology Why leaders must own their sense of worth. To avoid burnout and scale as leaders, we must take back the judgment of our own worth
management Featured The magic your meetings are missing Leverage the power of check-ins to level-up meetings and bring your team closer
board management How to build a great startup board (hint: your board is not your boss) How to turn your board into your greatest ally, get more support, feel less alone, and do your damn job.
habits A powerful morning practice for imperfect leaders In 2014, I was facing the loss of a child, a messy divorce, and single-parenthood while leading a fast-growing company. This is the morning routine that helped get me through. It has served me to this day.
ceos 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.
productivity Distraction is Killing Your Business (and stealing your joy) Startup folk are renowned for geeking out on productivity hacks and innovating on the future of work. But most miss the easiest gain of all.
leadership Founders and Leaders: feeling alone? You aren’t. It it common in a time like this for leaders to feel uniquely alone in their situations. Fear, self-doubt, and imposter syndrome can come up big in times of crises. You aren’t alone.
ceos The Weightiness Every Leader Knows You aren't alone. One of the defining experiences of being a startup founder was the heaviness I carried at every waking hour. And I see and hear it in every other founder I speak with.
entrepreneurship Get More Done and Enjoy Happier Weekends Your day driven by fires and your weekends overrun by rumination on work? Here’s a weekly ritual that might help.
ceos Featured $17M raised, and I was fried. I realized in October of 2016 that I was burned out and wanted a path out of the CEO role. Here’s my own story and the secret internal dialogue I’m hearing as a coach to other founders.
leadership The Away Debacle: Is Judgment the Answer? While the leaders are culpable, might our mob mentality reaction be inhibiting us from changing the systemic issues that encourage this kind of behavior?
startups How to find great advisors for your startup (and avoid the shit ones) The advisory relationship is one of the most helpful and misunderstood relationships in the startup world. Here’s my personal take on how to get the best out of an advisory relationship from either side.
startups Why I Might Never Start Another Company As I’ve begun to look into the abyss of what might be next, I am realizing there is no way to find my way to a real answer of the work that is mine to do without casting off this identity and these assumptions.
leadership The Hardest and Most Important Change You Can Make as a CEO Tears rolled down my face. I walked down Sandhill Road next to the famous venture capitalist who only days earlier had handed me a generous term sheet. Now, I was telling her my life was falling apart and explaining why she’d likely want to pull the term sheet and work with someone else.
