In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan talk about what happens when things work for everyone else but not for you. The effort founders put into our Startup is a sacrifice in all forms and shapes, to the extent of spending less time with family, neglecting our health, or even getting a pay cut just to keep the business rolling. Yes, you are the founder but you’ve become a slave to your own business. 

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What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro


• 00:11 Things are going great for everyone except for you


• 04:20 Concepts that led to you being a founder


• 07:17 We're essentially mortgaging our goals without realizing it


• 12:36 When we take an investor, the investor becomes our boss


• 15:32 You need to set goals that are unchangeable


• 21:24 There is a threshold where commitment becomes destructive


• 26:12 It’s disruptive when you pick up on things your employees didn’t do