When leaders don’t coach their teams for self-leadership, the teams struggle to scale and adapt quickly. This is where listening comes in.

Four things every leader should reflect on after the recent board conflict at Open AI.

Are you interested in coaching but feel unsure about how it might benefit you or even where your coaching journey should start? Let us help with that!

Healing from burnout requires more than just self-care. Change how you relate to burnout to lessen the physical and mental impact. In the first of a series, Brandon Houston offers a new way to relate to yourself and the pathway to burnout through curiosity.

Entrepreneurs tend to have complex psychologies-being more likely than the general population to experience common psychological challenges like ADHD, depression, Bipolar and other symptoms. Each of these psychologies also comes with huge gifts including creativity, risk tolerance, empathy and reality checking. Use this tool to assess your super powers and super struggles to help support your struggles and nurture your super powers.

The possibility of coaching is that it can help us create the future that we desire, but in the face of all this possibility, our fears may get activated. So, what are we to do when this normal human reaction arises? Consider touching base with your feedback systems.

When we are tasked with surviving in non-ideal situations as children, we take matters into our own hands because we are self-centered and assume the problem is us. As a result, we adapt because we cannot ask our environments to change. When we become adults, we can change our environments, but these internal adjustments stick around. I call these patterns my Velcro.

Throughout the month of May, in observance of Mental Health Awareness Month, you can also find a plethora of resources, graphics and images to help raise awareness of and reduce the stigma of mental health in entrepreneurship.

As children we’re taught to be nice. You know, that whole, “Say something nice or don’t say anything at all” business. The problem here is that it doesn’t leave room for when the situation requires something other than niceties, when nice won’t get to the heart of the matter or make change.

For most of us, what kept us safe and loved as children holds us back and causes chaos in our lives as adults. If this is true for you to any degree, consider that survival mechanisms are likely to come out when safety and love feel threatened.

An exploration of an entrepreneur’s mind through letters to teachers who saw and didn’t see the superpower locked up in a mind who struggled with traditional school.

The intersectional identity that each of us walks around with every day influences the degree of congruence with which we enter a space. Said differently, those who have more points of marginalization are "surface acting," or expending more energy and moving through more resistance to do the same activities than those with more points of privilege. This is also true for people who have hidden points of marginalization because there is an energy cost to staying hidden or in considering revealing oneself.

Most people think that burnout comes from working too many hours and having a never-ending stack of work. That's not totally untrue, but it's also not the whole truth.

When you haven’t known your co-founder or team member since birth, how do you build-in the level of care necessary to feel supported as you fail, learn, and grow?

With all of this rushing around, being top performers, closing deals, and building the technology the world needs most, did we forget how to really listen and to understand?

If our willingness and ability to hustle, over-work, over-deliver, and give ourselves fully to our work is our superpower, but it also leads to burnout, then what are we to do?

Creating a positive and engaging company culture doesn’t just fall on the heads of leadership.