Dave KashenStartup CEO Coach / 2x founder

Founder Breakthrough: I Wasn't Letting My Dad's Love In #innergame #emotionalmastery #foundermindset

23 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Dave Kashen. This content was uploaded by Dave Kashen. This is a YouTube video titled "Founder Breakthrough: I Wasn't Letting My Dad's Love In #innergame #emotionalmastery #foundermindset" (created 2025-11-23). The excerpt is a first-person monologue by Dave Kashen about emotional openness and a personal breakthrough: he describes realizing he had been protecting himself and unable to receive his father’s love until he intentionally opened up and felt it, framing the story in the context of inner work, healing, and founder mindset.

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and most people, and I think you might be included in this, um, and, and so me, and I'm sure Jesse at times, but we're working on it, um, are not open to receiving. And that's, that may actually be the biggest, like, blind spot for most people. It's, you know, I mean, thought that came up, like, for, like, for most of my life, I felt like my dad didn't love me unconditionally, you know, and didn't like, couldn't really feel his love, felt more like judgment until I finally one day realized like I wasn't letting it in. Like it wasn't, it didn't come in the exact form that I thought it should or wanted it, but ultimately I just wasn't receiving it. And like, it was one of the biggest breakthrough moments in my life, most healing moments of my life when I literally just opened up to receive it, and I felt it for the first time. So it wasn't like an idea. I like felt his love and realized for so much of my life I just— I was somehow protecting myself and just