Episode 554 | Thinking Through Your Exit + Grief and Entrepreneurship with Dr. Sherry Walling

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 554, Rob Walling chats with Sherry Walling about grief as a part of entrepreneurship and how to get better at handling grief as an entrepreneur. They also discuss burnout and properly evaluating if it's the right time to sell a company. The topics we cover [02:18] Grief is part of entrepreneurship [05:12] Getting better at handling grief and loss [06:07] Grief and selling a company [09:01] The importance of symbols [12:04] Evaluating reasons to sell a company [16:37] The three components of burnout [20:21] Changing your work schedule for summer Links from the show The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together: How to Run Your Business Without Letting it Run You 18 Summers ZenFounder Sherry Walling Sherry Walling (@zenfounder) | Twitter If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you! Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	Dr. Sherry Walling, clinical psychologist, founder, and CEO consultant and coach.
0:06.3	Thanks so much for joining me on the show today.
0:08.3	My pleasure. I know I'm like a hard ticket for you to get. So, you know, thanks for working
0:12.2	with my scheduling team. Yeah, this was great. I had to talk to three of your assistants,
0:17.4	use your SavicCal link, do all the things. So it's great to have you here in the squadcast room and just be able to chat it up.
0:23.2	It's been a long time since we talked.
0:24.7	Yeah, like a good 10 minutes or so.
0:27.0	That's right.
0:27.5	But it has been a long time since you've been on startups with the rest of us.
0:30.2	It's been a long time.
0:31.7	I was starting to get my feelings hurt.
0:33.6	Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I need to set a calendar reminders, what I should do and bring you on the show every so often.
0:42.4	Because I think you're such a, you've become such a staple in the broader startup space at this point, but especially, you know, in the microconf, bootstrapper space.
0:50.3	People, I think you were, if I recall, the first one to get on a microcomstage and not talk about
0:56.1	marketing and growth and to talk about feelings and burnout and how to stay sane while starting up.
1:03.7	The human side of the startup. Yep. That's right. And so I want to run through a few things today with you.
1:11.2	I mean, there's so much we could cover.
1:12.3	And actually, I want to have you back on because you are in the process of publishing a book through a publisher.
1:19.7	And that will be out in a matter of months, if not a six or 12.
1:25.2	Yeah, let's try about a year.
1:26.8	Yeah, okay.
1:27.4	So that's how publishers work. I mean, April-ish. Yeah, let's try about a year. Yeah, okay. So that's how
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