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Stephanie Fee Maschek
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Stephanie Fee Maschek
@Smaschek
Developmental Narrative Artist | Ghostwriter | Adventurer
Los Angeles, California Katılım Mart 2013
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@aaronwhoughton There’s often a moment that calls people to action. A health scare, a comment made to them, experiencing limiting moments because of lack of physical health that prevents them from running around with their kids or being on vacation confident in their body.
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A large majority of people are not motivated to take good care of themselves just because it’s the right thing to do.
What other things actually motivate people to take good care of themselves?
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@aaronwhoughton I’ve been extremely public about my therapy journey and it’s been interesting because people feel very uncomfortable with it. Therapy = new heights. I won’t stop trying to normalize this.
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Let’s destigmatize founders who support their own mental health with therapy.
Raise your hand if you’re a founder and you currently have a therapist, or you’ve worked with a therapist at some point in the past five years.
I’ll go first 🖐️
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@NOCKWellness we believe every team member should have a personal mission, vision and values statement as a foundation for a culture of wellbeing. Here I explain our process.
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Over the course of my life, I’ve taken a big interest in how people show up at work ineffectively due to outside stressors. Whole Leadership is our solution @NOCKWellness
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I believe that suffocating parts of ourselves in an effort to show up professionally breeds unprofessional behaviors like poor communication, aggression and harassment.
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@Smaschek This is the camp that I am in. We need to take responsibility for our mental health as founders and we need to support each other’s mental health. We don’t need anybody - especially our investors - to coddle us or enable us. We can do this ourselves.
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Question that I think we’re not asking.
Do founders need to get permission from their investors before they get the support they need to maintain their own mental health?
Or can they - and should they - just get the support they need?
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@aaronwhoughton In my opinion, there’s also ownership we need to take. I boldly told my CoFounders I refuse to be a startup CEO who ends up dead or with a disease caused by stress. We need to stop being afraid of standing up for ourselves
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@Smaschek Yeah founders have always been stressed out. Recent banking events resolved themselves in 48 hours. Let’s focus on the real problem here… the impact of crippling long term stress on the minds of founders over months and years.
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@aaronwhoughton It’s common that a tragedy creates visibility and ultimately that’s a great thing because it expands opportunity. Still, it’s clear that when a tragedy hits powerful people in the balls(😫) suddenly ppl notice.
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@Smaschek I like that. Making the small and time-efficient investments to get ahead of mental wellness issues instead of making the large and slow investments after a crisis arrives. Sometimes we need the latter, but it’s always better to do the former instead.
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Founders work insane hours trying to make their companies work. Taking time (vacation, a week off, an hour to meditate or for therapy, or putting your laptop away at 4pm) to support yourself is part of your job description. Do your job. Take great care of yourself.
Liz Giorgi@lizgiorgi
@aaronwhoughton Any investor who would require a founder to "check in" about mental health time off or a vacation is not an investor you want on your cap table. Gonna be gone for an extended period? Consult your board and your executive team. But the best investors will be helpful and support.
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@justingordon212 Investing everything I had into a healthy relationship with food, my body, a support team for my well-being. Owning that mental health, physical health, lifestyle health is all connected.
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What are the best investments you've ever made in yourself?
(Health, career, happiness, relationships, etc.)
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@aaronwhoughton The latest broadcasting about founder well-being is totally reactive while there have been proactive pioneers working hard on this before the SVB collapse @aaronwhoughton @KristinDarga
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@anothercohen I wake up at 4 or 5 most days and I do go to sleep by 9pm. Its become a part of my daily rhythm because energetically and creatively it works best for me. Even though too much fluctuation in schedule isn’t good, I allow myself more free flow on the weekend and get up between 6-7
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I don’t understand how people wake up at 4 or 5 to start their days. Do they just go to sleep at 8?
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Scare the Shit Out of Yourself, by @Smaschek open.substack.com/pub/thewildlar…
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@heyalexfriedman Thanks for this. Been going through grief in the form of losing someone I love to mental illness. I’ve had to deal with this several times in my life. The remedy is fully interior. That’s what I tell myself when I start the “I want to be more / do more” conversation.
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Collectively I don’t think we talk enough about how big of a mindfuck it is to grieve something while also being a super ambitious person.
That feeling of “I want to be more / do more” doesn’t go away even in shitty times. It just gets infinitely more exhausting.
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Entrepreneurship life tip that took me two decades to discover.
When cycles slow down in your business, resist the urge to take on new responsibilities or stir up trouble, instead take the space to rest and recover.
This is how you build strength for the next stress cycle.
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