101. Toxic Myth of Entrepreneurship feat. Alex Raymond @ Conscious Entrepreneur Summit
If I'm a CEO, I need to be cut-throat.
If I'm a CEO, I need to be serious all the time.
If I'm a CEO, I need to be Type A.
If I'm a CEO, I need to never show vulnerability.
These are the toxic myths of entrepreneurship.
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Rich’s mission is to rebuild the American dream through entrepreneurship. He believes technology gives all people the opportunity to grow, learn and earn. He is a Managing Partner at SpringTime Ventures and the host of the VC Minute podcast. With prior careers in finance and sales, he's been focused on the startup ecosystem for over a dozen years. He's a father of two young children and loves sci-fi, skiing, and video games.
One of the things that I've also done and got a lot of enjoyment out of is I mentor in the Techstars program.Which means that every year I'm meeting with a lot of CEOs and founders and they all think that they want to talk to me about pricing or go to market strategies or whatever's going on right now for them.But really what they want to talk about when we get into it is how do I start to feel better inside?When does the fear go away?When do things cool down for me?Another message that I wanna offer to your listeners is I want to give them permission to have these kind of conversations.There's a lot of feeling out there.there's a lot of conversation out there and the general sense is,if I'm a business person,a CEO,an entrepreneur,I have to put on my coat of armor every day,and I gotta put on my battle mask and I have to not show any vulnerability,and I've gotta be serious all the time,and I've gotta be really ambitious and a go-getter and a type A and...that's kind of a toxic myth around what it means to be an entrepreneur.My invitation to people is to be thoughtful and reflective and to understand what's really going on within you.To take the time to explore your own personal motivations and situations.Find resources and support and have the right conversations when you need to.And the first commitment to that is simply commitment to being open and vulnerable and sharing what's going on.We're really committed to building this community around that.The Conscious Entrepreneur Summit is the only in-person conference that is100%dedicated to the wellbeing of entrepreneurs.We're putting it together for the second time on June7th and8th,2023in Boulder,Colorado.For anyone who is in the SpringTime portfolio,anyone who is a listener to the VC Minute Podcast,they can actually use the code springtime and that's gonna get them$150off the ticket to the event.The website is Conscious entrepreneur.us.And that's where you can find all the information about the event,the incredible speakers and the companies who are helping us to put this together.
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