How to be an Entrepreneur and Preserve your Mental Health in the Process with Therapist Valerie Sadon
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Summary
Valerie Sadon, friend and therapist, has a passion for treating people with anxiety, trauma and chronic pain. If you're human like me, you'll experience some or all of these in your lifetime. And as entrepreneurs it’s easy to feel uncertain in your journey and often feel alone.
Listen in while Valerie puts those feelings of uncertainty into perspective and provides you with new ways to reframe and refocus so that you can balance and even find comfort in the uncertainty that comes with the journey of entrepreneurship.
Her best advice? We’re hardwired to want to rid uncertainty from our lives for survival. Strive for the balance and be comfortable with uncertainty, but clear on where you want to go.
Three Things You Will Learn This Episode
We need to strive for balance between uncertainty and staying clear on our goals.
You can’t set a boundary until a line has been crossed.
Normalize not being 100% available.
TIMESTAMPS
[01:50] Friendships are a hot topic.
[7:20] How are you doing emotionally?
[8:05] Mental health in new entrepreneurs is so fragile.
[8:53] I really treat the discomfort of uncertainty.
[10:44]How to increase your capacity for resiliency.
[16:44]The concept is outcome dependency.
[22:24] It’s all data.
[22:55]Social media gives you a false sense of immediate gratification.
[26:07] Jealousy is a blocked desire.
[27:52] Jealousy is a natural human emotion.
[29:05] Normalize jealousy.
[29:48] Let’s talk about boundaries.
[33:00] I look at entrepreneurship like a student.
[35:16] I have therapists that work for me taking new clients.
3 Key Takeaways
You're going to compare yourself to others. We have to be careful about making judgements on what it took to get there. We don't have an accurate perception on what it took for that person to get to that place of success.
Jealousy is a natural, human emotion. It was always frowned upon being jealous as a woman when we were growing up. It was an undesirable quality. We need to remove the shame from that jealous feeling. You’ll notice a lot of the jealous feeling will disappear when you speak it to someone who can relate and talk it out. We need to normalize it.
Boundaries will naturally fall into place once you have worked through the “desperately” hungry stage of building your business. Stay in tune to the red flag moments because they will cue that your boundaries may need to change.
Links
Connect with Valerie Sadon: Instagram | Website
Connect with Dana Bowling: Instagram | Website
