#2771 - Failure Friday: Executive Function Coach Experiences Burnout
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a coach who works with families on executive function issues. Business is growing—a bit too fast, it turns out.
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Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated, |
| 0:05.0 | like your head is full of Raspberry, |
| 0:08.0 | then you need Monzo. |
| 0:10.0 | Download your new favorite bank and pay bills from custom pots. |
| 0:15.0 | Money never felt like Monzo. |
| 0:18.0 | UK residents, T's and C supply. Please apply. Welcome, segment known as Failure Friday. Failure Friday. What goes wrong? What did not go well? |
| 0:45.8 | Mistakes, missteps, disasters, and you get to hear directly from a side |
| 0:49.6 | hustler who has struggled to get something off the ground or otherwise encountered a big setback, |
| 0:54.5 | let's say. In fact, today is a setback. Today's short story features Steve from Patterson, New Jersey. |
| 1:01.2 | Steve is an executive function coach. |
| 1:03.6 | He's working with families on executive function issues, |
| 1:06.6 | kids who are struggling in different ways. |
| 1:08.9 | I was the kind of kid who really would have benefited |
| 1:10.8 | from somebody like Steve. |
| 1:12.3 | So I'm glad he's doing this |
| 1:13.8 | business but his problem which often happens with people who like to help like |
| 1:17.7 | people who are helpers they end up helping too much and they kind of burn out |
| 1:22.1 | so you have to take care of |
| 1:23.2 | yourself so you can then help other people. These are hard lessons to learn |
| 1:26.8 | though right because you can say that but then once you're kind of in the trenches |
| 1:30.4 | and you're the one scheduling and lots of people need your help you know what do you do |
| 1:34.3 | well anyway let's hear the story from Steve let's hear how he was able to resolve it or at least |
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