Featured in Inc Magazine: Building through burnout to emerge stronger in business
Big shout out to Cameron Albert-Deich of Inc magazine for this moving story on founder wellbeing featuring weare3Sixty – amazing
With nine out of ten founders showing signs of mental health strain and 78% saying they feel lonely on the startup to scaleup rollercoaster, we have a responsibility as an ecosystem to positively shift the needle. These stats do not drive effective human or business performance. We set out to do something about it.
Now we have hundreds of founders and startup leaders who meet every month from across the world to support and fuel each other in safe coaching spaces. They’re solving problems together, supporting each other and learning deeply from each others’ experiences. This creates a safe, confidential community space for real support, that drives long-term performance.
By cracking this together, as an ecosystem, then more founders succeed, more startups success, and that delivers returns for all.
Operate for 10 hours a day, every day, for over two years bouncing off the red-line of stress and urgency and eventually your body tells you enough is enough. That telling came in the form of post-traumatic-stress reactions for weare3Sixty co-founder Christina. In short, the brain had rewired to think almost everything was a fight-or-flight situation and as a result a heart-racing, stomach-churning, panic-style reaction could happen at any time. Eating your breakfast, walking the dog, just answering an email. It is debilitating. It is incapacitating. Functioning as a highly effective, efficient leader of an award-winning tech-startup just stopped.
That’s just one story. We’ve now heard hundreds more.
By sharing this one story with other founders it became clear that everyone was suffering in silence in one way or another – stories of complete burn out, anxiety, panic attacks, impostor syndrome – all openly shared by just one story being shared first. Yet everyone felt they were the only one.
Until now.
weare3Sixty is founded and fuelled by a passionate team eager to put a stop to this silence, now and in the future, so that founders thrive, not just survive, on the rollercoaster that is startup and scaleup life. We do this by opening up the conversation; through our startup leadership training; and by creating the all-important community support-structure with our FounderCircles®.
We’re here to empower other entrepreneurs on this rollercoaster startup journey that we bravely choose. It’s a journey filled with exhilarating highs and anxiety-inducing lows and there’s far too many still navigating this journey feeling alone, despite the size of the industry and breadth of business support available. We don’t accept the status quo of masks and bravado, where everyone is “doing great”. It doesn’t result in optimum performance for ourselves or our businesses.
We believe we can do better. We can be better. And it all starts together.
There’s no dog-eat-dog here. weare3Sixty founders believe in the power of peers to unlock potential in ourselves and our ecosystem. We believe that investing in the individual is key to unlocking startup and scaleup success and passionately believe that the leadership development long established in big businesses needs to be made accessible to the innovators of the future too. We accept that growth means growing ourselves too and seek out the tools and coaching we need to be our best, most-effective, high-performing selves.
In the future, there’ll be no need for our mission: We won’t need to talk about supporting each other, or talking openly about our experiences. It will be mainstream. For the good of the whole.
Are you a 3Sixty Founder? Let’s change our world.
In our founder-coaching team you’ll find highly-trained accredited coaches who believe in transforming the startup ecosystem for the better. As a team, we have thousands of hours with founders and startup leaders, and most of us have been founders too, because we believe that in this space lived-experience actually does matter.
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The results of the first ever study of founder wellbeing and performance came in and they do not make for light reading. That’s why we set out to do something about it and now we have hundreds of founders meeting monthly for coaching and peer-to-peer support. But this is just beginning. Want to help? Dive into the report and see what we can all do to fuel founders together.
Big shout out to Cameron Albert-Deich of Inc magazine for this moving story on founder wellbeing featuring weare3Sixty – amazing
weare3sixty and Tech Nation have today announced that monthly FounderCircles from weare3Sixty will become part of the Applied AI programme
Download your copy of the 2019 Entrepreneur Pressure and Wellbeing Report here
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Coaching and connection that fuels the world’s founders, and their team talent, to thrive not just survive on the startup to scaleup journey