Joshua Fraser, fired in February 2024, argues entrepreneurs need therapy to survive startup stress. He's been in bi-weekly therapy for eight years and took a 14- to 16-month sabbatical after his company was acquired by Adam Data. Now he's focused on helping other entrepreneurs avoid the hardships he faced.
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I think every entrepreneur should go to therapy with the highs and lows that we live and have to handle and manage and the stress that comes with it. I think it's February 2nd of 2024 right now. I was fired. And so I've been fun employed, I call it, for nearly a month now. And my therapist, I've been going to therapy for 8 years bi weekly. She said, josh, some people take years to unwind because as an entrepreneur, you're typically in the fast lane and you can get wound up pretty tight. And to let all of that go. That's why people need to take sabbaticals. I feel like my sabbatical was my, you know, 14 to 16 months that I had at Adam Data. After they acquired my company. They basically told me, we're shutting the stated down, roll your clients over, and then don't talk to anyone in the company. Just upsell your clients, and then we're going to fire you as soon as your earnouts over. Now that I'm unfunemployed, I'm 100% focused on just giving value to more entrepreneurs. I don't have any incentives in this. I just don't want to see you go through all the same shit that I went through.