What's up, everyone?

This is Cortland from NDHackers.com, and you're listening to the EndieHackers podcast.

On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses, and I try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes.

How did they get to where they are today?

How do they make decisions both at their companies and in their personal lives? And what makes their businesses

tick? Today I'm talking to Dr. Sherry Walling, the creator of Zen Founder. Sherry is an academic

and professional powerhouse with multiple master's degrees, a PhD in clinical psychology, and she's

also worked as a professor at multiple universities.

She has extensive experience researching and treating the victims of post-traumatic stress disorder,

and in recent years, she's taken her skills and her learnings in that area and applied them

to help entrepreneurs and their mental health. So this is going to be, I think, a very different

conversation than we're used to having on the podcast, but this is fundamental, important stuff that I don't think gets talked about often enough.

So, Dr. Walling, I'm excited to have you here, and thanks so much for coming on the show.

Hey, thank you, Corland. I am super excited to be here and talk with you.

Let's talk about this path that you took, from studying trauma and PTSD and working with

patients to working with patients to

working with entrepreneurs. I know that trauma is a very serious issue. I think it's hard to

overstate how much of an effect it can have on a person. What, if anything, is the relationship

between being an entrepreneur and being a victim of trauma? That's a really interesting question.

And I got to be honest,

I don't think that many people have asked me that before.

I think they assume that I've made a shift.

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