Three weeks into Madrid and I’ve stumbled onto something the locals seem to know by default; joy isn’t the reward at the end of the to-do list. It’s the fuel you run on while you’re doing it.

In this episode I’m talking about the whimsy trend, why I think it’s actually a nervous system necessity for founders, and what’s shifted in my work (and my content) since I started building real play into my days, not as an escape, but as a reset.

We get into:

* Why founders’ nervous systems specifically need this

* What an hour of “pure whimsy” actually looks like in practice

* How stepping away from your work makes you better at it

* Why the energy behind your content is something your audience can feel

* What Madrid taught me about joy that Naples never did

If you’ve been telling yourself “I’ll relax when I hit the number” — this one’s for you.

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