The CEO's Struggle with Stress and Mental Health

Most of the rest of the population can talk to someone about their stress, about their fears, about their anxieties, because they can talk to a coworker. But as the CEO of a company, you can't tell your VPs that you're stressed or worried or depressed because it might freak them out. And you can't tell you're bored because that'll freak the shit out of your board. So you live in this very lonely place of one. And maybe you have a coach, or maybe you're in a Mastermind group like we were. We met at Mastermind talks. And you're in a community of other people that go, oh, my God, I'm just as crazy as you. Maybe I'm not crazy, right? Until you get into that space, you feel very, very locked up by yourself. I identified, or was identified very young as being bipolar and add. I was in grade school, in grade six, and I was sitting outside the principal's office, and my dad was inside the principal's office. It was the only time I'd ever been. And I remember my dad inside, and I could hear through the door saying, there's nothing wrong with my kid. The problem is the school system.