7 Dec 2025 · 1 min
A short Mindset Monday podcast episode (recorded June 16, 2025) about the "intensity" phases entrepreneurs and professionals face. Speakers emphasize that careers include recurring periods demanding much more focus, longer hours, and energy; the episode frames choosing to engage (rather than retreat) as a key part of resilience and recovery.
One of the things that the average person doesn't think about as they become an entrepreneur is that starting a business, being in business, being a teammate, it doesn't make a difference. Wherever you find yourself in your career, you're always going to have periods of intensity. Periods of intensity that just require a different gear, way more than you're accustomed to giving. And if you're an entrepreneur, you know.
This because it.
Was the very beginning. It was when the product didn't work.
It was when.
The sale went away.
When you lost.
An opportunity and you had a chance to retreat, you had a chance to pull back, you had a chance to do nothing, but you chose to take on another period of intensity. And you know what I mean by that? It's that longer hours, way more focus, way more energy towards your business. And. And yes, they're not always that way. It's not always a period of intensity. But when you're there, you have to give it everything you got. Because if you don't, it's really hard to recover from a time that requires it where you.
Don'T give the energy and know exactly what I'm talking about.
So whether you're in one now, like.
I'm in, or.
You are in a period of maybe calm honor where you're.
At, but just know one day.
Timing is required.
When it's time for you to be intense, you got to give it all you got.