Burnout for entrepreneurs

“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 Science for Entrepreneurs with Dr. Elie Gottlieb · 17:08· listen →

“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.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 16:23· listen →

“I would see these blips throughout the day in the glucose monitor that were in the normal range, but that it wasn't associated with food... there are cortisol pops to increase glucose... So it wasn't that I am super chill... I was completely unaware of the physical impact that was happening on my body.”

The ROI of Health and Fitness for Entrepreneurs · 12:40· 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.”

Fitness for Busy Entrepreneurs with Eric D'Agati · 21:03· 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: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 0:00· listen →

“It really is simply an invitation for us to see within ourselves where we're not honoring our unique capacity or where we have the opportunity to mature.”

Burnout as a Mirror: Karenna Soto on Somatic Healing · 1:34· listen →

“She said, yeah, I think we think of our neurological memory as the memory we have, but the body stores memories too, and pre-rational memories. And maybe you were just experiencing that.”

Psychedelics for Entrepreneurs: Scott Omelianuk on Growth · 25:32· 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.”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 34:05· 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.”

Entrepreneurial Wellbeing & Neurodiversity 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.”

Entrepreneurial Wellbeing & Neurodiversity with Johan Wiklund · 8:06· listen →

“As a leader, as an entrepreneur, you're constantly having to make quick decisions all day long. You're having to solve everyone's problems. And it's just nice to have one less problem to solve.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 23:28· listen →

“Work is a vacuum. If you, and I say this as if you give yourself, if you have a 3-hour task and you give yourself 6 hours to do it, it's going to take 6 hours to do it. Maybe you'll get a little bit better at hour 5, a little bit like diminishing returns. If you give yourself 2 hours to do a 3-hour task, you will get it done in 3 hours.”

Grayson Cross on Scaling E-Commerce, AI, and Burnout · 25:43· listen →

“So I went to the emergency room and they're like, dude, you had a stroke. I'm like, I don't really think so. They're like, well, you know, they check my blood pressure and obviously it's through the roof because I'm on like Adderall. I'm drinking like 4 or 5 Red Bulls a day. I got a stack of Diet Cokes by my desk. And you just don't think about this stuff because it's, you're like, I'm invincible, right?”

Grayson Cross on Scaling E-Commerce, AI, and Burnout · 18:20· listen →

“My husband stopped and looked at me and he goes, you can't do this anymore. And that was like, wow. Oh boy. You're right. It wasn't until that point that like my spirituality, my business side, it all kind of came like crumbling down together.”

Lindsay Mastrogiavanni: Spiritual Entrepreneurship & Mediumship · 13:13· listen →

“I don't know if you've experienced absolute burnout, but I would say I have experienced absolute burnout. And so it's like also when you visit that place called burnout and you probably have lived there for a couple years without knowing it almost, it's just not, it's just not a place you wanna visit again.”

Dr. Julie Causton on ADHD, Burnout & Remote Business · 17:16· 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: Breathwork & Resilience · 16:46· listen →

“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 · 17:19· listen →

“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 · 25:51· listen →

“You have a vulnerability to, for example, stress. You have a vulnerability to being attracted to drugs and things like that. And it's important to be aware of this. And it's also because of this that self-care is so, so important for the neurodiverse entrepreneurs.”

Entrepreneurial Wellbeing & Neurodiversity with Johan Wiklund · 22:36· 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 →

“There's just going to be days you can't. And you really just have to learn how to make it flow together and integrate your life and not try to separate it into these two very discrete things.”

From Burnout to Balance: Dr. Lynise Green on Wellness · 24:25· 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.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 19:55· listen →

“I think that our businesses are physical representation of the inner work that we have to do on ourselves—that's what I found.”

Holly Conti: Scaling to 7 Figures with Mindset Work · 13:20· 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.”

Nicole Van Valen on Joy, Spirit & Resilient Leadership · 12:30· 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 · 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 · 12:22

“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 · 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 · 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: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 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: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 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: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 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: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 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: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 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.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 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.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 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.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 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.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 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.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 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.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 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.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 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.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 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.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 10:19

“If I don't move every day in one way or another, things get bad, so I always make that a huge priority.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 14:12

“There's just something so therapeutic about getting your thoughts out on paper and just leaving them there, you know, and not letting yourself ruminate on anything. It's been huge for me.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 30:07