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Wellness.

The personal side of founding a company: stress, burnout, loneliness, health and keeping a life outside work, in founders' own words.

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Hiring, Scaling, and Work/Life Balance

Nick Franklin, ChartMogul

🎧 Podcast2017

Why Success Alone Won’t Truly Make You Happy

Justin Kan, Twitch

πŸŽ₯ Video Interview2019VC Backed

10 Ways to Kill Your Limitations and Realize Your Full Potential Today

Steli Efti, Close

🎀 Talk2017VC Backed

Habits, Systems and Mental Models for Performance

Daniel Ek, Spotify

🎧 Podcast2020VC Backed

Designing For Quiet In Product And In Business

🎧 Podcast2020

Entrepreneurship and Loneliness

Reid Hoffman, Greylock

🎧 Podcast2020VC Backed

Reflections on Founder Wellness and Recovering from a Failed Startup

Austen Allred, Lambda School

πŸŽ₯ Video Interview2019VC Backed

Leading Your Company Starting With Your Own Well Being

Justin Kan, Twitch

πŸŽ₯ Video Interview2020VC Backed

Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today

Justin Kan, Twitch

🎧 Podcast2019VC Backed

4 Ways to Balance Growing a Startup and Having a Baby

Sara Mauskopf, Winnie

✍️ Essay2020VC Backed

My Experience with Burnout as a Startup Founder

Joel Gascoigne, Buffer

✍️ Essay2019Bootstrapped

Entrepreneur, Stage 1: Bootstrapping, Burnout, and Babies

Luke Kanies, Clickety

✍️ Essay2020

How Arianna Huffington Built Her Media Empire

Arianna Huffington, Thrive Global

πŸŽ₯ Video Interview2018VC Backed

Optimizing Happiness And Health Span

David Hauser, Perfect Keto

🎧 Podcast2020Bootstrapped

A Passion for Now: How 10 Minutes Will Improve Your Work and Your Life

Matthew Bellows, BodesWell

✍️ Essay2014

Dealing With Top Enemy Of Mental Health That Leaders Aren’t Aware Of

Sandeep Kashyap, ProofHub

✍️ Essay2017VC Backed

Founder Distractions

Steli Efti, Close

🎧 Podcast2020VC Backed

Can You Build a Successful Startup in 40 Hours per Week?

Nathan Barry, ConvertKit

✍️ Essay2018Bootstrapped

The Undiscussed Pandemic: Mental Health

Alyson Friedensohn, Modern Health

🎀 Talk2021VC Backed

The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout

Hiten Shah, FYI

🎧 Podcast2019VC Backed

Why Mindfulness is Crucial for Founders and Their Companies: An Interview with Awakened Founders

Justin Rosenstein, Asana

✍️ Essay2017VC Backed

How Successful People Manage to do More and be Less Stressed

Sandeep Kashyap, ProofHub

✍️ Essay2018VC Backed

33 Ways to Encourage Mindfulness at Work

Matthew Bellows, BodesWell

✍️ Essay2015

Should You Wake up Super Early in the Morning as Founder?

Steli Efti, Close

🎧 Podcast2019VC Backed

A Founders Guide to Feeling Feelings

Hiten Shah, FYI

🎧 Podcast2020VC Backed

5 Tips to Build Mental Fitness Within Your Teams

Alexi Robichaux, BetterUp

✍️ Essay2020VC Backed

Scaling Your SaaS Without Scaling Your Anxiety

Arvid Kahl, FeedbackPanda

✍️ Essay2019Bootstrapped

Finding Happiness at Work

Matthew Bellows, BodesWell

✍️ Essay2015

How to Stay Mentally Healthy in a Startup

Hiten Shah, FYI

🎧 Podcast2018

How to Sleep and Rest up as a Founder

Hiten Shah, FYI

🎧 Podcast2019

What Founders Can Learn from Death

Hiten Shah, FYI

🎧 Podcast2020VC Backed

The Importance of Workplace Mental Health and Wellness

Alyson Friedensohn, Modern Health

πŸŽ₯ Video Interview2020VC Backed

Mental Wellness that Meets Employees, Wherever They Are

Alyson Friedensohn, Modern Health

πŸŽ₯ Video Interview2021VC Backed

The Benefits of Therapy for a Founder

Steli Efti, Close

🎧 Podcast2019VC Backed

Do You Have to Sacrifice Your Life & Health in the Early Days as Founder?

Steli Efti, Close

🎧 Podcast2019VC Backed

Even Seasoned Founders Feel like First-Time Founders

Steli Efti, Close

🎧 Podcast2020VC Backed

Dealing With Grief While Running a Startup

Wade Foster, Zapier

🎧 Podcast2017Bootstrapped

How to Handle Private Life Challenges While Running a Startup

Hiten Shah, FYI

🎧 Podcast2020VC Backed

Successful Entrepreneurs Understand the Value of Family

Kurt Rathmann, ScaleFactor

✍️ Essay2021VC Backed

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