What Do You Do When Investors Push for a Path that Doesn’t Feel Right?

11 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Peter Sorgenfrei. This content was uploaded by Peter Sorgenfrei. This is a YouTube video titled "What Do You Do When Investors Push for a Path that Doesn’t Feel Right?" (created 2025-12-11 UTC). The excerpt is a monologue-style coaching segment in English where a single speaker (labelled SPEAKER A) addresses CEOs and founders, advising that feeling unseen by your team usually comes from hiding your true self — recommending vulnerability, sharing challenges, and admitting you don’t have all the answers to build trust and visibility within the team. Metadata includes the video thumbnail URL and creation timestamp.

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The reason you feel unseen by your team is because you're not showing you, right? You have a feeling that they don't understand you or they don't see you for who you are. Maybe it's because you're not showing them who you are. Maybe it's because you're carrying some kind of facade. You're not talking about the challenges in the business. You're not showing your vulnerability. You're trying to hide behind some facade of you have to be the strong one and the stoic one. And nothing could be further from the truth. Most CEOs, most successful founders that I know have an ability to also be vulnerable, to also share the difficult moments, to also tell the folks that, hey, I don't have all the answers. And so if you don't feel seen by your team, it's probably because you're hiding. And so showing them more of yourself will make you have that feeling go away.