Hannah HammondFounder & CEO, HB Capital & The Firm RE · CEO of HB Capital | Helping CRE Developers & Investors Fund Deals Nationwide | Host of The Hannah Hammond Show

These are some of the most miserable people I’ve ever met… don’t end up like them.

Name: These are some of the most miserable people I’ve ever met… don’t end up like them.
Uploaded: 2026-06-24T00:06:33+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Hannah Hammond
Description: In this brief monologue, Hannah Hammond reflects on encounters with founders who achieved massive financial exits yet remained deeply unhappy because…

24 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Hannah Hammond reflects on encounters with founders who achieved massive financial exits yet remained deeply unhappy because they never engaged in inner work or discovered their "green zone"—a mental state she describes as the source of creativity, clarity, good decision‑making, generosity, vision, courage, and peace. She vows to avoid becoming like those individuals, choosing instead to prioritize the green zone even if it means building more slowly. Paradoxically, she notes that operating from the green zone actually accelerates progress, as it fuels the qualities that drive effective, sustainable growth.

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I've been in rooms with people who have exited their companies for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, and some of them, the ones who never did the inner work, who never found their green zone, they were the most miserable people that I had ever met. They had everything and nothing at the same time. And I made a promise to myself after sitting in one of those rooms. I said, I will never end up like that. I would rather build slower and be in the green zone forever than scale fast and be miserable for nothing. And you know what happened? I built faster because the green zone is where creativity lives. It's where clarity lives. It's where the best decisions come from. It's where generosity and vision and courage and peace all exist at the same time.