On episode 1149, Brad Feld describes how he reconciles the ups and downs of being an early stage investor.

I don't know that I've reconciled this as a profession. I probably refer people to a couple of things.

One is, you mentioned him earlier, Jerry Colonna and I've had

Jerry on the show a few times. Sure. Jerry, is one of my closest friends. We now live a mile from each other just on the edge of Boulder and you know just the

amount the amount that I've learned from him and not just in terms of listening to him, but reflecting back and forth between the two of us has been incredibly powerful.

One of the key points for me,

and it happened probably about three or four years ago,

and it tracks back seven, almost seven years ago now.

In 2013, I had a very deep depressive episode again

for about six months.

And this one was really triggered

physiologically I ran a 50-mile race in 2012 which was too much I'm a big runner

but that was too much training and too much running in the context of all the traveling I was doing.

And I won't sing the country music song of all the things that happened for the next six or nine months.

In general, my life...

They do call it Brad, by the way, an ultra marathon for a reason.

It's like two marathons.

It's not three marathons, but it's two.

No, I love running marathons, but a 50-miler was too much but you know I had a near death experience my dog died I ended up with a kidney stone I had surgery like a bunch of shit happened

and along this period of time a couple of people in the entrepreneurial world committed suicide.

And there was this, if you sort of track back and look around in 2013, there was sort of a flurry of articles suddenly about

mental health and entrepreneurship. And Jerry and I weren't a bunch of them because I was very open about my

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