Rediscover Who You Are At The Core Level

14 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this reflective monologue, the speaker discusses the intense pressure founders face after exiting or selling a company. Society and peers expect them to immediately launch a new, bigger venture, creating a narrative that discourages taking time to celebrate past achievements. The speaker highlights the identity crisis that arises—questions like “Who am I without my company?”—and argues that founders need space to reflect, rediscover themselves, and process what they built before considering what comes next.

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When we exit a company, everyone comes out of the woodwork and they're like, oh, I can't wait to see what you do next. And I'm like, next? Like, this was really hard. And all of a sudden there's all this pressure to just dive right back in and build something bigger and do something even more. That's the narrative that we weave as a society. We don't allow ourselves to take the space and reflect on what we built and celebrate. We create all this pressure. There are a lot of questions. That come up, right, when you sell a company. Who am I without my company? Who am I without my work? And we need to go rediscover that part of ourselves before we can even think about what's next.