Your sharpest deals and worst mistakes often start in the same place: your emotional state. We’ve watched brilliant founders sabotage partnerships, torch team trust, and overreach on risk not because they lacked strategy, but because their bodies and minds were running too hot. So in this episode we get honest about emotional health as operational risk—and share the practices that keep our own decisions clean when pressure climbs.

Some topics covered are: 

• Emotional health as founder risk
• Conflict as dysregulation signal
• The inner justifier of bad choices
• Notice the clouds and pause decisions
• Grace to rest and reset
• Clear feedback and nonviolent communication
• Exercise and fewer processed carbs for mood
• Breathwork, sauna, and cold for regulation
• Intimacy to lower stress
• Therapy for core wounds and legacy
• Ongoing emotional monitoring
• And more..