A first-person monologue advising individuals — particularly startup founders — to allow themselves to grieve and process setbacks so they can pivot and move forward. The speaker links this personal resilience practice to broader economic challenges (U.S. inflation and high interest rates) that make funding and growth harder for startups.
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I like gave myself that space and said, you know what, I need to just grieve the loss of this and understand that all of that work may be flushed down the toilet. We have no idea. It's outside of my control, but I'm going to like sit and process it so that when I get out of bed, and I stayed in bed until I promise I process it when I get out of bed, I'm going to be able to flip the script and figure out what the heck I'm doing moving forward. So I think there's a lot of lessons there, but you have to feel it like when, when stuff happens, it happens all the time. You work so hard to build it and it takes something completely outside of your control. Kind of like what we're looking at now with economics, at least here in the us like we've had out of control inflation, we have high interest rates, it's hard to get money if you're a startup. And, and so we're facing economic headwinds right now. It's the same. You have to be able to process what's not in your control and let it go so you can show up and, and figure out how you're going to pivot and move forward.