You set the pace for your startup’s execution. The pressure to grow, push, move, and scale at unreasonable speeds is real. Founders feel it.

What increases the pressure is the sheer volume of work most founders are spread between. Task lists can feel endless, new notifications are always popping up, and context switching between every core area of your startup can be exhausting. There’s hardly enough time to just stay afloat.

On top of the workload and the felt sense of pressure is the weight of responsibility founders feel to succeed - and rightly so. Founders feel a deep sense of ownership around every aspect of their startup. This is your company, your idea, your risk, your shot. More than anyone else in your company, your startup will live or die by the choices you make. It doesn’t matter that many of your choices will feel like guesses as you’re making them - you are still responsible for moving your startup forward.

Feeling urgency, managing a high volume of work, maintaining the speed of execution, and carrying the weight of responsibility are all aspects of your job as a founder. And - this is a lot! It’s normal to feel overwhelmed at times. But those moments should be quick and rare, and you’ll want to catch yourself before crossing the line in which overwhelm turns into paralysis. Overwhelmed founders move slowly, but they’re still moving. Paralyzed founders can’t. Psychological paralysis means founders can’t think clearly, can’t move quickly, and can’t maximize any upside. Paralyzed founders can’t win.

Founders scale themselves when they learn how to feel just enough pressure that it’s useful, without allowing it to feel so intense that they collapse under the weight of it.

Founders scale themselves when they know how overwhelm can paradoxically make their execution better.

And founders scale themselves and when they build a toolbox full of skills that will quickly break them out of paralysis so they can keep moving forward at pace.

This Group Office Hours will teach you how.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why feeling pressure, responsibility, and overwhelm is normal for startup founders

• The failure modes of these feelings you’ll want to avoid

• How to manage the pressure of running a startup while staying high performance

• A strategy to translate feeling overwhelmed into sharper focus and better execution

• Skills to help you avoid paralysis, and to get back into action when you’re there

• How other ambitious founders are experiencing and solving the same challenges you are

Your Host

​Amy is a licensed psychotherapist who was hired as Y Combinator’s first Batch Director and became YC’s in-house Founder Coach. While running and scaling the YC batches, she coached nearly 1000 early-stage founders at YC, and she’s coached nearly 1000 later-stage founders since launching The Founder Coach in 2019.

Guidelines

We keep each others’ secrets safe.

The foundation of Group Office Hours is trust: By signing up, we commit to keeping each others’ secrets safe. Confidentiality is what allows founders to open up and get the support they need from this time together. We all commit to maintaining the trust and confidentiality of the group in order to sustain it.

If you share content or information from Group Office Hours with a person or organization who did not participate in the event, you and your entire startup will be neverlisted from all The Founder Coach products, services, offerings, and events going forward. Any tickets you’ve purchased will be forfeited and you will not be refunded.

There are no exceptions to this rule.

Group Office Hours is only for startup founders.

We are exclusive to startup founders in order to create an environment of connection, mutuality, emotional safety, and shared understanding.

The invitation to Group Office Hours does not extend to investors, coaches, journalists, execs, startup employees, etc. If you are not a founder and try to attend a Group Office Hours, you will be removed from the call and neverlisted from all The Founder Coach products, services, offerings, and events going forward. Any tickets you’ve purchased to future events will be forfeited and you will not be refunded.