The Founder's Foyer with Aishwarya Ashok #33 Fostering creativity, diversifying identities, overcome mental blocks ft. Matt Munson (2x Founder & CEO Coach)
0:00 Intro to Matt Munson's work
03:51 Story of ups and downs in starting up
08:20 Moving to coaching founders and CEOs & learnings
12:26 Tackling intellectual loneliness and building a trusted community
25:42 Freedom to experiment & experience outcomes
30:22 How a sense of separation from the work fosters creativity
36:41 Embracing creative play and curiosity for self-awareness
40:12 How can founders figure out their maximum focus areas
44:25 Balancing leadership with company growth
45:46 Diversifying identities to not get locked up with beliefs
53:57 Why 'rest' is termed as a dirty word at work and how it shouldn't be
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Living the founder or builder life is like a permanent oscillation between “I feel so good” and “I feel shitty”—and this is something common with creative people that it often gets passed off with a laugh. But what would it be like to take notice of our moods and energy patterns, see what amplifies our effort and what saps out that enthusiasm? Is there a way to change the outlook to our own thinking and observations, just as we are high on potential to achieve something? How to obsess less about us to learn more about us?
Matt Munson is the founder & CEO coach at Sanity Labs. Matt draws on his own experience as a venture-backed founder to help other founders, CEOs, and product builders navigate the journey of leadership, self-awareness, and team building. Prior to this, Matt co-founded Twenty20, the world’s largest crowd-sourced commercial image catalog.
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