Solving chronic pain, health tech and avoiding burn out with Arun Nijhawan
Description
In this episode Arun Nijhawan, the co-founder of Menda Health, talks about everything from getting acquired, developing a routine to avoid burn out, co-founder relationships and tips for new entrepreneurs.
He shares with us that the feeling of success is fleeting so it’s important to work towards something that serves others.
His company Menda Health is on a mission to serve those who suffer from chronic pain (over 1 billion worldwide) through virtual Pain Reprocessing Therapy.
Show Notes:
3:03 - Arun’s struggle with chronic pain and how Menda Health came about.
3:57 - Helping people suffering from chronic pain using Pain Reprocessing Therapy, a non opioid treatment
5:20 - Acute pain lives in the body, chronic pain lives in the brain
6:00 - Menda Health is on a mission to help 1 Billion people globally
12:33 - It took two years to try to figure out how to start a company and deliver value the first time around
13:44 - Redefining the purpose of entrepreneurship
15:21 - Redefining the approach to delivering purpose and importance of self-care and self-healing
18:21 - Skills learnt in the transitioning period and overall learning experience
22:47 - Success is fleeting, it comes and goes pretty quickly
25:25 - Skills needed to see challenges and push through to the next level
27:31 - Making pivots, struggling to move forward and how being resilient helps
29:31 - Founders and partnerships, the alchemy of it.
32:00 - Managing relationships with business partners and co-founders
37:00 - Challenging aspects of businesses in the healthcare sector
38:37 - Layered complexities of how money moves in healthcare-focused businesses
42:12 - Teaching entrepreneurship to high school students and demystifying the ideologies around being an entrepreneur
47:00 - Why is it important to talk about failure and our relationship with failure
Links:
Menda Health
LinkedIn
Instagram
Navigating Pain Podcast
Failure Decoded
Failure Decoded Instagram
Your Hosts:
Shamsiya
Rachel
United States
