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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 8 - Julian Hearn on How He Avoided Burnout Whilst Building Huel

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this clip Julian Hearn, Founder and CMO of Huel, explains how he avoided burnout whilst building the company. We also cover some of the common symptoms of over-working and what we can do in order to find the fine balance between grind and burnout.

Transcript

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0:00.0

One of the big things in our sort of society at the moment is the topic of mental health.

0:10.1

And founders and entrepreneurs go through very high pressure, high pressure journeys in

0:17.6

order to try and achieve this objective.

0:20.6

How do you protect your own mental health and what have you learnt over the last couple

0:26.6

of years about keeping your mental wellbeing in check?

0:29.9

If you go to Mad in terms of hours, it's going to catch up with you eventually.

0:34.7

So you will get yourself burned out if you're not careful.

0:37.8

I'm a lot older than you.

0:39.4

So I'm probably going to get burned out easier.

0:40.7

You can probably go harder than what I can for longer.

0:43.3

But you do need to take into account that when you see it coming, you've got to try and

0:46.7

take the thought of the accelerator a little bit.

0:49.2

But you know, ultimately somebody asked me a question, a place of a doubt.

0:53.3

There is nowhere around it.

0:54.3

You can have to put the graph in, you have to put the hours in.

0:57.2

It's going to have to be for a sustained period of time to make these things work.

1:00.9

But try and keep an eye on yourself because if you start, I don't know, I probably started

1:07.6

going out too much.

1:08.6

You know, like in the evening, you're trying to make up for, you think it's like a reward

1:12.7

mechanism or so.

1:13.7

You think, I've put these hours in.

1:14.9

What am I getting back out of it?

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