About Zen Founder
About Sherry Walling
Dr. Sherry Walling helps smart people do hard things. She is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, award-winning best-selling author, and mental health advocate. Pairing her professional training and personal experience, she’s helped countless entrepreneurs work through the hardest parts of running and growing a business.
She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times. She is also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast exploring psychedelics and innovation in mental health care.
Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Her (award-winning) newest book, Touching Two Worlds, explores new strategies for finding wholeness in the aftermath of loss.
Dr. Walling is an expert in trauma, stress and burnout and her research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Traumatic Stress. She is a graduate of the University of California, Davis and Fuller School of Psychology. She has a PhD in clinical psychology and master’s degrees in both psychology and theology and she completed research fellowships at Yale University School of Medicine and the National Center for PTSD in Boston.
Sherry speaks on stages all over the world on topics such as burnout, grief, entrepreneur mental health, and the life-saving value of a good hobby.
She is currently a mentor in several start-up accelerators including Lunar Startups, Beta, and TinySeed.
Sherry and her husband, Rob, reside in Minneapolis where they spend their time driving their children to music lessons.
She has been known to occasionally perform as an aerialist or guest teach a yoga class.
We are fortunate to work with a number of other professionals.
Brooke Bergman, LMFT
Brooke our relationship expert. She is highly skilled at helping individuals and couples get right to the source of their conflict. She thinks outside the box. And is a wonderful resource for all kinds of strained relationships - co-founders, co- workers, or life partners. Being engaged to an artist and entrepreneur, she is intimately acquainted with the highs and the lows of the entrepreneurial journey and believes that healthy relationships at home lead to more creativity, productivity, and happiness.
When she isn’t working with clients you can find Brooke swimming in the ocean, learning to ski, dancing, or reading the latest research on the nervous system and how integrated we are as a body/mind.
Rob Walling
Rob is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and startup mentor who has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, Forbes and dozens of other national publications. He wrote one of the definitive guides to bootstrapping a startup. He is the founder of TinySeed, the founder of Drip, cofounder of MicroConf and the cohost of Startups for the Rest of Us. Rob a frequent cco-host on the ZenFounder podcast and co-author of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together. He is also Sherry’s husband of 21 years.