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Investing in Mental Health & Embracing Vulnerability with Andy Dunn

09.08.2022 - By Greg IsenbergPlay

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Are you being honest with yourself? In today’s episode, we get vulnerable while sharing how upbringing impacts entrepreneurship, unpack why mental health is critical for businesses, and share the importance of embracing vulnerability. Host Sahil Bloom is joined by guest Andy Dunn, the co-founder of Bonobos, and the author of Burn Rate. Together they discuss the five buckets of wealth, share why you need to accept when you're wrong, and finally, they place their bets on the future of Direct-to-consumer brands in the bear market.

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THIS EPISODE Andy Dunn: https://twitter.com/dunn Burn Rate: https://www.burnratebook.com/ Sahil Bloom: https://twitter.com/SahilBloom Production & Marketing Team: https://penname.co/

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SHOW NOTES 00:00 Sneak Peek  01:00 Introducing Andy Dunn’s Map of Reality  05:50 Accepting your “Otherness”  12:08 Andy’s Entrepreneurship Journey  16:18 Finding Your True Calling  20:16 Defining Wealth  23:26 Happier but Not Happy  26:19 The Bonobos Story  33:06 Predicting the Future of D2C 40:38 A Bear Market Creates Focus  42:45 Burn Rate  43:43 Embracing Vulnerability  49:03 Talking About Mental Health  52:21 High Highs and Low Lows  56:40 Investing in Mental Health  1:00:54 A 2-Step Process to Working On Mental Health  1:03:33 Where to Find Andy Dunn and his new book 1:06:38 Thanks for listening

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