Why Vacations Are Serious Business for Founders
With summer already here, it's the perfect time to talk about why it is so hard for entrepreneurs to unplug. Want to know the real impact of taking a break on your personal and professional life? Curious about how you can effectively plan and delegate to ensure your business thrives even while you’re away?
Dive into this article to learn why taking a break is not just beneficial but necessary for you and your business.
5 Signs You Are a People-Pleasing Leader
Is People-pleasing Always Pathological? Or is trying to keep everyone happy a hallmark of good leadership? In this article, I explore 5 Signs You Are a People-Pleasing leader and and maintain boundaries in your interactions with both your team and your customers or clients.
How Can Touch Impact Your Mental Health? 3 Ways to Bring Physical Contact Back Into Your Life
Feeling Lonely at the Top? Leaders can feel isolated even when surrounded by vast networks. Physical touch offers a sense of connection digital interaction can't replace. In this article, I discuss the barriers to incorporating more touch into our lives and explore why entrepreneurs often struggle with isolation and difficulty asking for and accepting touch.
The Psychology Of Overworking: 4 Key Drivers Behind The Urge To Hustle
How to stop the cycle of exhaustion, especially in the early days of entrepreneurship, when you often feel you have to work faster, better, and harder than everyone else?
Understanding the psychological drivers behind overworking is the first essential step.
Can Love Survive a Startup? 5 Strategies to Business-Proofing Your Love Life
One of the hardest challenges entrepreneurs face is having enough expanse of their own energy to be able to fuel their business while also fueling their relationships and personal lives.
So, are the long hours and undivided attention required by your startup impacting your romantic life? Today, I want to share some ideas and strategies to help you business-proof your love life.
Are Entrepreneurs More Vulnerable to Anxiety?
The boundless energy, action, and creative thinking required to build a business can easily transition into anxiety. Today, I want to share valuable insights on how to mitigate or navigate an anxiety crisis, offering self-soothing strategies that can be applied anytime, anywhere when overwhelming feelings strike.
How To Stop Being Your Own Worst Critic
Are you harder on yourself than anyone else? As a clinical psychologist focusing on entrepreneurs, I've seen firsthand how critical self-talk among high performers can be downright abusive, blocking growth and creativity. But how can you turn your inner voice into an ally?
Things That Freud Was Right About
I believe Sigmund Freud was right about a lot of things, which often surprises the entrepreneurs I coach. Despite some of Freud's ideas being seen as controversial or even anti-feminist, I firmly believe that he offered the world some fascinating insights that still have significant implications today.
Personal is Political: Is Your Mental Health a Reflection of Society?
Did you know your mental health and how you navigate your personal journey have immense implications for the collective well-being? In this article, I explores the sense of heaviness that many of us are experiencing, not just in our personal lives but in our communities and across the globe, to question the traditional view of mental health as an individual metric, instead considering its collective impact.
Redefining Joy Within Grief This Holiday Season
Our grief doesn't have to define our holiday experience; it can coexist with moments of genuine happiness and closeness.
In this article, I share 4 Empowering Ways to Balance Grief and Sorrow during the holidays, drawn from both my professional and personal experience.
The Physics of Manifesting: Your Momentum Follows Your Gaze
In the world of flying trapeze and aerial fabrics, where you fix your gaze is critical. That’s where your momentum goes. And I’ve found this principle is crucial in entrepreneurship. And life in general, too!
Want Flow? Mindful Exercise Enhances Focus, Pleasure, and Creativity
How can you jumpstart your brain for growth, creativity, and flow? Simple answer: Get Moving! Brooke Bergman Parr shares the recent science behind movement as mental health.
Hacking the System: What You Need to Know About the Vagus Nerve
The vagus nerve is a key factor in your health and wellbeing, but we seldom acknowledge its role. Here’s how you can “hack” it and evoke a positive response.
Why Am I Doing This?: Keeping Values at the Forefront of Your Work Life
Have you ever reached a moment where you stop to wonder why you’re doing what you do? Keeping values in your work life is important -here’s what to consider to put them at the forefront.
Your Body and Your Business: Adopt These 3 Body Practices to Optimize Your Performance
Finding the time to look after our own health can be challenging for founders. Here are 3 healthy practices to optimize your performance right now...
How to Prevent Burnout as a Founder
Burnout is a very common phenomena among founders and their teams. How can we manage and prevent burnout?
How to Raise Tech Healthy Kids
How many times have you had a back and forth with kids over technology use? It can be difficult raising tech healthy kids in a digital age, but fortunately, there are some solid guidelines you can follow:
Are You Dealing with Founder Depression? Some Signs to Look For
Founder depression is a common issue in the entrepreneurial world. Raising awareness is an important thing to do - here we’re examining the signs.