For Founders
Accelerate your business by strengthening its most critical asset: You
“30% of startups fail completely due to the emotional state of their founders.”
– Fortune Magazine
Our Founder Services
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Founder Coaching
Mental health oriented coaching for entrepreneurs who want to gain clarity on how to align their personal self care with their business goals to build the company of their dreams with ease.
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Founder Weekend Retreat
This three-step retreat program for founders offers a natural way to retreat, refresh your mind and reconnect with your body. In a dedicated setting you’ll discover how to create more calm, clarity and creativity in your life to go from burned out to thriving, supported by a community of inspiring peers and guides.
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Build & Thrive Bootcamp
Build & Thrive is an exhilarating 4 weeks hybrid bootcamp for entrepreneurs looking to build a solid personal foundation to build the company of their dreams. Together we grow, we develop our strengths and face our weaknesses to make it easy to endure the ups and downs of the startup rollercoaster. Grow to become a role model leader, grow to inspire others to grow, grow to build the company culture of your dreams to guarantee the ongoing growth and success of your company.
“72% of founders report mental health problems.”
– UC Berkeley
Sound familiar?
Is stress causing physical illness and emotional distress?
Do you feel isolated?
Are you experiencing lost productivity and approaching burnout?
Do you feel fear, shame, or doubt about your ability as an entrepreneur?
“Founders are two times more likely to have suicidal thoughts and to be hospitalized for psychiatric ailments”
– UC Berkeley
Michael Seibel
– CEO of Y Combinator
“Most people don’t realize how the founders who they are impressed with actually take advantage of therapy.”
Brad Feld
– Co-Founder of Techstars
“We were very successful as a business, financially very successful. Anybody on the outside looking in would say “what’s wrong with you?”. I didn’t feel sadness or sorrow. But it was almost like there was something missing. It was almost the absence of joy.”
Famous Voices on Founder Mental Health, Coaching and Therapy
Your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing are intimately related to the success of your company. And when you value these things for yourself, building a startup becomes easier.
“Companies who invest in mental health double their growth over three years as compared to their counterparts”
– Heidrick & Struggles
Meet the Team
We are a team of founders and professional psychologists who have experienced the chronic stress, anxiety and life-impacts of entrepreneurship first hand. Our mission is to make your journey easier.
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Natascha started promoting health in multiple settings and levels from the very first moment in her career. Being trained in business and health psychology (M.Sc.), she supported healthy school environments, coached future executives, and worked as an advisor to improve working conditions for corporate businesses. As an active member of the Berlin based startup ecosystem with specific focus on digital health innovation, Natascha closely works together with visionary founders and ambitious change makers to drive next generation healthcare. Having struggled with challenging health conditions herself, to date Natascha continuously combines and applies the latest scientific knowledge, practical tools and interdisciplinary treatment methods. She personally experiences the huge positive impact of health promoting thoughts and behaviors on a daily level.
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After a masters degree in corporate management and economics, Gerjet worked for NGOs, a development bank and for 5 years as a product manager and UX Designer in various health and sports tech startups in Berlin. In 2018 Gerjet founded his own startup Skill Yoga with the mission to make yoga more accessible to a masculine identifying audience. After growing it to 15 employees, more than 1mn€ revenue and raising 1.8mn€ in a seed round, he experienced firsthand the loneliness, isolation, stress, financial hardship, and burnout associated with building a startup. His empathy for the founder journey and his training in yoga, meditation, mindfulness coaching and breath work led him to create support systems around the thesis that healthy founders equal successful founders and healthy returns.
“The return on investment of workplace mental health interventions is overwhelmingly positive, with an ROI of 5:1”
– Deloitte
“Just like you would spend a lot of effort trying to retain a great programmer or sales person who’s doing really well for the company, you should invest in making yourself happy and effective at work. It’s easy to burn out.”
– Justin Kan, Co-Founder of Twitch
accelerate health, enjoy life
book a call with our managing directors, Natascha and Gerjet, to find out how we can transform your work so it’s good for yourself, good for others, and good for the environment.