S1 E7: Dan Murray-Serter: How entrepreneurship wrecked my mental health
Big Fish with Spencer Matthews
Global
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Dan Murray-Serter is a serial entrepreneur. He’s the co-founder of Heights, a braincare company. His previous company Grabble was the UK’s top fashion app. They had 30,000 new users a day, but the company failed. Dan then suffered from crippling insomnia, but couldn't see that he was mentally unwell. He thought he was just being productive; committed to building his business. Heights was born as a remedy for that insomnia and the debilitating anxiety and panic attacks he experienced. This episode is a fascinating listen for anyone who’s interested in mental health and entrepreneurship: how to stay mentally resilient while riding the storm of building a company from the ground up.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I had really chronic insomnia. |
| 0:08.0 | I'd get to sleep about midnight, but I'd wake up 1.32 a.m. and that happened for six months. |
| 0:13.0 | As you do as an entrepreneur, I started with the myth. I'm just incredibly productive. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi, I'm Spencer Matthews and welcome to Big Fish. incredibly productive. |
| 0:24.6 | Hi, I'm Spencer Matthews and welcome to Big Fish. Join me each week as I sit down with famous CEOs, fantastic entrepreneurs, incredible |
| 0:29.6 | designers and other famous faces to discuss what it takes to be the best. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm not sure that anyone can be an entrepreneur. |
| 0:44.9 | It takes grit, patience and resilience. |
| 0:51.6 | The highs are sweet, but the lows can be aggressive and long and hard. |
| 0:55.8 | My guest today, Dan Murray Sertrter, is a serial entrepreneur. |
| 0:59.9 | He's the co-founder of Heights, a fantastic brain care company. |
| 1:04.0 | It's a fascinating listen, and for anyone who's interested in mental health and entrepreneurship, |
| 1:09.0 | how to stay mentally resilient whilst riding the storm of building a company from the ground up, |
| 1:10.0 | he's your man. |
| 1:15.1 | Let's start with your business Heights. |
| 1:18.4 | What's, why, you know, how did it come about? |
| 1:20.0 | Heights is a brain care company. |
| 1:21.7 | The awesome thing is that means nothing. |
| 1:24.0 | And that's basically our opportunity. |
| 1:27.2 | So when building a brand, I think what's super interesting, |
| 1:27.6 | and you're doing this extremely well, we're clean as well, right? It's building a category. So category design is |
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