Burnout, bad hires, hard pivots — what works when things break.
Free Playbook · Founder Mindset How to Run a Difficult ConversationWith a Team Member Founders avoid difficult conversations more than almost any other task — and the cost compounds quietly. Missed feedback. Unaddressed underperformance. Resentment that builds until someone leaves. Here’s the framework that makes hard conversations productive instead of damaging. What’s in this playbook … Read more
Free Playbook · Fundraising The Founder’s Guide toManaging Up Investors, board members, and advisors can be your most powerful assets or your most draining relationships — often depending not on who they are, but on how you manage them. Here’s the system that keeps these relationships working in your favour. What’s in this playbook Managing … Read more
Free Playbook · Founder Mindset The Survival Guide forYour First Time Managing People Nobody trains founders to manage people — you’re just suddenly responsible for someone else’s growth, performance, and wellbeing. Here’s what actually matters in the first 90 days of managing someone for the first time. What’s in this playbook The shift nobody tells … Read more
Free Playbook · Founder Mindset The Founder’s Guide toMaking Faster Decisions Slow decisions are one of the most expensive things in a startup. This playbook gives you the frameworks, filters, and prompts to make better decisions faster — without the paralysis that kills momentum. What’s in this playbook Why founders make slow decisions — and … Read more
Most founders are bad at giving feedback. Not because they don’t care. Because they were never taught how. They either avoid the conversation until the problem is too big to ignore, or they give feedback in a way that feels like criticism and produces defensiveness rather than change. Here’s the framework that changes both. Why … Read more
The best founders I know share one habit that most people overlook. They stop. Once a week, for 20 minutes, they sit with what happened, what they did, and what it means. Not a fancy system. Not a 3-hour journaling ritual. Just 20 minutes of honest reflection before the next week begins. I started doing … Read more
I’m going to skip the generic advice. You’ve read “fall in love with the problem, not the solution.” You’ve read “talk to your customers.” You’ve read “hire slow, fire fast.” Everyone says these things. They’re true and they’re useless because they don’t tell you what they actually mean until after you’ve learned them the hard … Read more
I burned out at month 14. Not the dramatic kind you read about — the founder who has a breakdown at a board meeting or disappears for a month. The quiet kind. The kind where you’re still showing up, still doing the work, but every decision feels like it costs twice what it used to. … Read more