All founders feel feelings. Lots and lots of feelings, at a high intensity and at a high rate of change.
Feeling feelings is normal, but not all founders know how to use their emotions as data that can help them execute, make decisions, build strong relationships, and grow as their startups scale.
If you understand this and your competitors don’t- you’ll move more quickly while they get overwhelmed, burned out, paralyzed, and lost in their own reactivity. These failure modes degrade founders’ ability to work, manage, lead, hire, and take care of themselves. They make founders suffer, make relationships fail, and can eventually kill your startup. Lack of emotional awareness and skill puts your startup at risk.
It’s rare for existential threats to be completely within your control to eliminate. These failure modes are.
Founders scale themselves when they develop self awareness and emotional intelligence. Founders scale themselves when they learn how to use their emotions as data that can help them execute - when they learn how to experience, name, investigate, and use the valuable signal that each emotion carries. Founders scale themselves when they let themselves feel their feelings - and know how to use them.
This Group Office Hours will teach you how.
What You’ll Learn:
That it’s normal for founders to feel feelings
Why processing your emotions is a competitive advantage
A framework to understand emotions as data that can help you execute
Tools and strategies to identify, name, and process your emotions quickly so you can get back to building, armed with this new information
The signal that common emotions hold for founders, like anxiety, overwhelm, guilt, and frustration - and how to use that data in your startup
How to avoid the common emotional failure modes that slow down founders and kill their startups
How other ambitious founders are experiencing and working through the same challenges
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.