An Honest Discussion About Founder Depression and Anxiety
During this week’s HealthYeah live video interview, Excy co-founder and CEO Michele Mehl sat down with Megan McNally to discuss founder depression and anxiety. Megan, a successful lawyer, the founder of The FBomb Breakfast Club, and one of Seattle’s Most Influential People, kindly shared the mental health toll of her entrepreneurial journey and how it contributed to founder depression and anxiety.
For Megan, childhood mental health challenges of anxiety and depression resurfaced while building her startup Diana Sports TV. Just like most entrepreneurs, Megan set out to change the world with ambition, vision, and big dreams. All driven by a passion and obsession to build Diana Sports TV into the first digital streaming network dedicated solely to women’s sports.
However, she quickly learned that there can be a dark side to entrepreneurship: losing focus on self-care. Like so many entrepreneurs, lack of self-care led to near-debilitating anxiety and depression and peaked with the realization that her startup would fail to launch.
We invite you to listen to the post, or jump on over to the Excy blog for a complete summary:
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