Burnout & Recovery for entrepreneurs

“I always look for what I call the 4 Horsemen of executive burnout. So the first one is sleep latency extending beyond 25 minutes... The second one is cortisol staying elevated after 10... There's also how your fasting glucose is going to vary during the day... The last thing is your heart rate variability when you sleep.”

Enhancing Entrepreneurial Health and Performance with Dr.... · 16:23 · listen →

“There was also a 2012 study in Stockholm where they found that the strongest predictor of burnout across about 500 working individuals, it wasn't work hours or demands. It wasn't thoughts of work on days off or leisure time. It was too little sleep, right? Sleeping less than 6 hours.”

Sleep is the Ultimate ROI with Dr. Elie Gottlieb · 17:08 · listen →

“First, accept that acute sleep loss is physiological rather than pathological. It's your axis that's doing its job. Your cortisol is elevated. Your arousal system is in high gear. The worst thing you can do in a high stress sprint is then add performance anxiety on top of that.”

What Your Sleep Data Says About Your Brain and Body With ... · 32:55 · listen →

“People who don't want to use that, they can do simple things like humming. And if they put their hand on their chest or on their solar plexus, and they hum, you're actually accessing that vagus nerve and helping it to very deliberately relax.”

Integrative Medicine Approaches for Entrepreneurial Healt... · 16:16 · listen →

“Fight or flight is for we're in danger. Like, fight or flight is tiger chasing me and I'm gonna die. Like, that's what fight or flight is for. Fight or flight is not for everyday living. And that's why we're seeing the high amounts of anxiety.”

From Survival to Strength: Healing, Resilience & the Powe... · 16:46 · listen →

“The thing is that as an entrepreneur, you don't have that, right? So it's like, if you don't know what your boundaries are, if you don't know what your limits are, then it's really, really hard.”

Understanding Entrepreneurial Wellbeing with Johan Wiklund · 10:03 · listen →

“There's one study that was published in Harvard Business Review where they found that about 1 in 4 entrepreneurs show signs of moderate to large burnout.”

Understanding Entrepreneurial Wellbeing with Johan Wiklund · 8:06 · listen →

“And so when you have a brain like we have, it's fun to be inside this brain. It's a good time. I enjoy it immensely. And then I'm face down. So I have 2 modes, 90 miles an hour and zero, and those are my options. And I've had to build in rest in brand new ways.”

Dr. Julie Causton on ADHD, Burnout & Remote Business · 15:48 · listen →

“We are the life source of our business, right? We are the thing that gives it pulse. And if we're not taking care of ourselves, then that's, then what's the point, right? That this thing that we're creating, we won't be able to sustain it.”

Burnout: A Mirror to Self-Discovery with Karenna Soto · 5:30 · listen →

“It was so stressful that I had an autoimmune disease kind of sitting somewhere in my body, and it brought it out. And it's called pemphigus vulgaris, which sounds more like a Harry Potter curse than a disease. It's this thing that if I had gotten 50 years ago, John, I would have died from it.”

The Rise of AI Employees, Bootstrapping to Exit & Pragmat... · 25:02 · listen →

“I think the single biggest lie people hear is that you can out-supplement or out-nutrition your way out of a lack of strategic recovery.”

Katie Hardie: Why You Can't Out-Supplement Burnout · 0:52 · listen →

“Most people unfortunately kind of are living at the simmering 7, especially entrepreneurs. They're constantly at this simmering 7 or 8. They never really get to 10, and they also never get down to 0, and so they kind of burn out because they're revving at this high RPMs.”

Stay Fit for your Business with Eric D’Agati · 21:03 · listen →

“Burnout is when the balls fall on the floor and you can't pick them up. It's gone. And so, it's understanding when to kind of slow those balls down a little bit and maybe sometimes put them aside rather than let them fall and come back and regroup and take care of yourself physically, mentally, and soulfully.”

Proactive Health for Entrepreneurs with Dr. Lynn Anderson · 23:10 · listen →

“A lot of it is just stepping back so that you can bounce forward. So it's kind of the first thing is to just recognize that you're feeling stressed or that you're feeling burnt out, because sometimes you don't even realize it.”

The Joyful Leader with Nicole Van Valen · 12:30 · listen →

“Imagine how much more successful you could be if you were well-rested and you weren't suffering from decision fatigue and you actually ate lunch and fed yourself and had some energy.”

From Burnout to Balance: Reclaiming Wellness with Dr. Lyn... · 1:56 · listen →

“My favorite regimen because it's very easy and simple, I have 2 of them that I use in my practice, is the 5-5-7 breathing. And, that's in for 5, hold for 5, out for 7, 3 times, 3 times a day is how I usually start people.”

From Survival to Strength: Healing, Resilience & the Powe... · 24:30 · listen →

“The lion chases the giraffe and the giraffe is running away and gets away. They immediately do this huge body shake and then they go back into rest and digest.”

Burnout: A Mirror to Self-Discovery with Karenna Soto · 25:16 · listen →

“High-performance states, you don't want everybody around the board table just in this relaxed state. You want them present, aware, accessing all their faculties. That's what coherence provides, is that presence.”

Leading with Heart: The Science of Coherence and Emotiona... · 20:37 · listen →

“Well, that's, I was talking about this earlier, like when you have a fear reaction, it goes on. So fear was really designed to last only about 10 or 15 minutes. So like if we lived in a jungle, right? And I see a lion, ah, right? My fear reaction goes off.”

Embracing Realistic Optimism with Dr. Gary Sprouse, MD · 17:46 · listen →

“The goal is to open up the pipe and let that thing finally move through us. And when it does, it can be a little bit uncomfortable in the moment. But as you start getting used to this feeling of processing your emotions, it can actually feel really good.”

Emotional Healing for Entrepreneurs with Benjy Sherer · 26:42 · listen →

“This idea of a sleep deficit, it's a farce. It's not how the body works. You cannot make up this sleep deficit. So it means that every single day, we want to wake up at the same time and go to bed at the same time, within reason.”

Nutrition, Sleep & Pacing for Entrepreneurs | Jenn Trepeck · 28:11 · listen →

“Blood sugar is the number one thing for quality sleep. Blood sugar balance is the number one thing that will affect quality sleep.”

The Gateway to Holistic Wellness for Entrepreneurs with L... · 26:51 · listen →

“It's not like getting your haircut where you do get it done and you can come back 2 weeks later. It's cumulative. And that's what most people don't get. They think of it in isolation and in a silo.”

Stay Fit for your Business with Eric D’Agati · 3:26 · listen →

“It takes about 120 days for the whole cellular thing to take place, but it also takes about 120 days for the mental thing to set in, you know, continually doing something. Because if you do something for 3 to 4 months, it now becomes a habit and that habit continues on.”

Proactive Health for Entrepreneurs with Dr. Lynn Anderson · 4:16 · listen →

“I eat the same thing every day. For the most part, like down to a T. And that might sound like a little much, but honestly, it's made my life significantly easier and less stressful.”

Building Community Without Burning Out: Leadership, Disci... · 19:55 · listen →

“Burnout isn't about doing too much. It's doing what's not true for you for too long. And so alignment feels different, right? There's still effort, but there's clarity of direction and growth.”

Become The CEO of Your Soul With Daune M. Thompson · 0:00 · listen →

“It's okay to let the world burn for a while. So, you think you need to fight every fire, but if you let it burn, usually it's not as bad as you think. And then in stillness, you find clarity.”

Emotional Mastery, Reinvention & the Inner Game of Entrep... · 19:58 · listen →

“The whole idea of literally killing yourself for your business, to me, just never made sense. And I had a lot of guilt about that at first. So I'm thinking, geez, you know, am I really optimized as an entrepreneur because I'm not willing to do that?”

Mental and Emotional Profitability in Entrepreneurship wi... · 21:28 · listen →

“They'll usually almost always will come out, why am I not happy? Or why do I not feel fulfilled when I've done all these things? But they really feel guilty even bringing it up because they know they're fortunate and they know that they have everything that most people want and desire.”

The Hidden Beliefs Blocking Your Success With Christina L... · 34:05 · listen →

“Usually they come because they are, they know the stuff, they've done the courses, they've done the marketing course and the business course and that kind of stuff, but it's just not clicking for them, there's a piece missing. And usually that piece is building ADHD processes to actually help unlock all of the information that they've learned.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential with ... · 2:56

“Are you making what you need to be making to support the life and the people and everything that you wanna support? If not, where is the bottleneck? Look at your business. You know, where is— if you think about the theory of constraints, it's like, where is the piece that if you, you know, doubled everything, your business would break? And often, they're the bottleneck.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential with ... · 12:22

“Initially, when I started working with people, there was this idea of things like rejection sensitivity dysphoria and the idea that people with ADHD struggled with it, but there was no research on it that you could find, no academic research. But now it is coming to a head.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential with ... · 17:19

“The thing I love to tell people is you'll probably already working almost as hard as you can work. A lot of times people will come to me and they'll say, I just need to white-knuckle it. I read this book about dopamine detoxing and I've decided I just need to go harder.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential with ... · 25:51

“So it's not about working harder, it's not about white-knuckling it, that's not gonna get you where you need to go. It's about understanding how your brain works and building the processes that are actually fun and work better, which is a crazy combination, but it's It's the whole wearing glasses that don't match your prescription sucks. It's not helping you and you're not getting more done. It's like, it's the same concept.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential with ... · 26:35

“I dump some things down on the paper. There's no theme to it. It's really just whatever's top of mind. And I found that to be super helpful. Never been a great meditator, but the past couple years I've been trying. It's gotten better. I found breathwork a little bit more accessible to me, especially in terms of getting into what they call heart-brain coherence, which is a really great way to self-regulate.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential with ... · 20:03

“Your soul should be the chief of the energy that your soul's leading from, because most people, have you noticed, lead from the outside and then address strategy, as opposed to the inside and out.”

Become The CEO of Your Soul With Daune M. Thompson · 5:43

“What's fascinating is we all avoid those discomforting topics because they're not comfortable for us, or they're what we actually came to learn, but we avoid them.”

Become The CEO of Your Soul With Daune M. Thompson · 9:19

“Deserving isn't earned, it's remembered, right? And so nobody in that room cares about you. Nobody in that room thinks about you. They're thinking the same thing whoever this person is thinking. They're thinking the same thing. What if they find out?”

Become The CEO of Your Soul With Daune M. Thompson · 26:32

“Anxiety tells me when they show up is that they're either living in the past or the future. They're not present right now.”

Become The CEO of Your Soul With Daune M. Thompson · 31:20

“I can have a crappy day and go get a massage and feel good for 24 hours, and the next day, if I did not address that crappy whatever's going on inside of me, it's back. So I can do things to feel good, but they're not solving the internal.”

Become The CEO of Your Soul With Daune M. Thompson · 45:15

“If you break yourself down just to be successful in business, it's not even about enjoying the benefits of money and those things, it's about enjoying your life. And, I think that gets lost. We learn about the so-called hustle culture, #hustle. Everybody's like, grind, grind, grind. But, that really isn't accurate.”

Building Community Through Food, Fun, and Fearless Entrep... · 2:51

“That next big win is a weird thing... it's like doing drugs. And when you're doing things like that, you get this high and you're thinking to replicate it. If you keep chasing it that way, it's only going to destroy you.”

Building Community Through Food, Fun, and Fearless Entrep... · 4:34

“First just make something cool and then worry about how you get it in front of people. It does not work the other way. That's where you see like the Hawktua girl... She had a shot and then didn't do anything with it because she wasn't prepared. So first, prepare your ideas and your cool content, and then worry about getting the people to see it.”

Building Community Through Food, Fun, and Fearless Entrep... · 14:58

“Everyone is afraid to fail and they fear failure more than they love success... Failure, she and I, like we go way back, right? We all fail more than we succeed. A great baseball player bats .300. That means they failed 70% of the time.”

Building Community Through Food, Fun, and Fearless Entrep... · 19:03

“Most of us suffer from imposter syndrome, right? Your skill level's going like this, your confidence level's going like that, and there's this gap.”

Building Community Through Food, Fun, and Fearless Entrep... · 19:03

“I talk to myself sometimes and I would never talk to a friend like that ever. I forgot my flash drive. You piece of shit. Like, how are you not prepared for this? You know? And it's trying to stop yourself from doing that.”

Building Community Through Food, Fun, and Fearless Entrep... · 21:50

“The valuation is going to always be the most speculative thing you can do in the world... So the 2 tips is find a way to find any way to justify some kind of valuation. But also find investors that are going to believe in what you're doing because creative stuff like might work, it might not.”

Building Community Through Food, Fun, and Fearless Entrep... · 47:35

“I had shown up and fixed this exact problem I was having for so long here in Central New York, but I fixed it for everybody else. And I was very much building, the founder of a startup company, and I was not prioritizing building a support system for myself and making sure that my own social-emotional needs were being met by the people around me.”

Building Community Without Burning Out: Leadership, Disci... · 5:46

“The beauty of events is that if your guests didn't plan the event, they don't know what's wrong. So, if something goes wrong, just cover it up with a smile and ask for forgiveness if you have to. At that point, there's nothing you can do.”

Building Community Without Burning Out: Leadership, Disci... · 10:19