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This episode is brought to you by Boulay, the industry standard for Quality of Earnings, tax, and audit services, serving search fund entrepreneurs for 20+ years*This episode is brought to you by Oberle Risk Strategies: Insurance Broker and Insurance Due Diligence Provider for Search Funds and Other Small-to-Medium-Sized Businesses * This week, I'm joined by Dr. Sherry Walling, a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, and best-selling author. She is also the Founder of ZenFounder, which aims to help entrepreneurs and CEOs navigate issues of transition, rapid growth, loss, and any manner of complex human experience. She is also the host of the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1M+ times.Sherry first came onto my radar when she published her first book, the aptly named The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together, which discusses many of the topics that we've explored over the years in this podcast related to managing your psychology as an entrepreneur and CEO.Her most recent book is titled Exit Strategy: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business without Regret, which goes beyond purely commercial considerations, and explores the largely unexplored personal considerations specific to the largest transaction of most entrepreneurs' lives.
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In this week's edition of the AmiSights Podcast, we talk to Dr. Sherry Walling, founder and clinical psychologist at ZenFounder, which helps entrepreneurs thrive in business and in life by avoiding burnout and isolation. Dr. Sherry Walling discusses the mental health challenges of entrepreneurs, focusing on the importance of self-awareness, building a supportive team, and maintaining friendships outside of work.“I think it's really important for entrepreneurs to recognize their spouse as their first investor, the first person who said yes to their harebrained idea… The presence of a business is a little bit like the presence of a mistress, right? It's this ever present other thing that is absorbing the attention.”We explore why building a healthy company should not revolve around one person, but instead be systematized in a way that allows it to grow, thrive, and exist independently of the founder. We also discuss the importance of entrepreneurs being well-rounded, with interests and relationships outside of their business, and why securing full buy-in from a significant other is essential before starting an entrepreneurial journey.Connect with Dr. Sherry Walling: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/Check out ZenFounder: https://zenfounder.com/Recorded on 3/13/2025
Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, and any manner of complex human experience. Sherry also hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times.Her new book, Touching Two Worlds, is an award-winning, poetic, incisive exploration of grief and joy in the aftermath of loss. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. On this episode, Sherry and I discuss some of the mental roadblocks that entrepreneurs deal with, her path to psychiatry, went to seek psychiatric help, and much more.
Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist serving startup founders, and the creator of ZenFounder.com. She's also the author of Touching Two Worlds: A Guide for Finding Hope in the Landscape of Loss. In this episode, Sherry shares her perspective and strategies for becoming a high achieving human up to cool things in our world. She also addresses how to avoid entrepreneurial burnout, and how to process grief and achievement within your personal and professional life. Get the transcripts and show notes for this episode: https://www.leadpages.com/blog/sherry-walling-living-a-brighter-life
Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, and any manner of complex human experience. She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times. She was also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast series exploring innovations in mental health care via psychedelics. Her new book, Touching Two Worlds, is a poetic, incisive exploration of grief and joy in the aftermath of loss. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Sherry and her husband, Rob, reside in Minneapolis where they spend their time driving their children to music lessons. She has also been known to occasionally perform as a circus aerialist. Website: https://zenfounder.com Twitter: @sherrywalling Instagram: @sherrywalling 1:09 "Why is choosing the most painful path not always the best idea?" -Brian Keith 2:49 Sharing Grief 3:53 State of Emotional Flux 4:55 "I am so glad you are talking about this [grief] as a business owner." -Sherry Walling 6:54 Confronting the Illusion of Control 8:54 "We build our way into resiliency." -Sherry Walling 12:35 Comments on Coping 15:56 "Sometimes my work is a break from my grief." -Sherry Walling 17:16 "The bottom line is there is no 'one size fits all.'" -Sherry Walling 19:23 Where Is the Joy?
Navigating grief, managing anxiety, and prioritizing your physical health with Sherry Walling from ZenFounder. ----- Welcome to episode 412 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Sherry Walling, a clinical psychologist and founder of ZenFounder. How to Support Your Mental Health as a Content Creator Sherry Walling is back on the podcast today to talk about something we should all be discussing more — the mental health of entrepreneurs. If you have a career as a content creator, it can be difficult to separate your personal life from your professional life. It can also be lonely to run your own business. Not to mention the challenges of sharing parts of your life on social media! All this to say that entrepreneurs face a unique set of challenges when it comes to mental health, and this powerful episode with Sherry is one you won't want to miss. She shares more about the habits you can incorporate into your life to better manage anxiety, stress, and grief, and prioritize your emotional and physical well-being. In this episode, you'll learn: Why Sherry started a public conversation around the mental health of entrepreneurs. The first steps to take when your mental health is suffering. Why it's important to prioritize your well-being. The habits that entrepreneurs can incorporate into their lives to take care of their mental health. The practices Sherry incorporates into her life to support her physical and emotional health (including the trapeze!). The benefits and detriments of technology for our mental health. How to live your life in a way that honors your soul. How Sherry navigated seasons of grief, and the lessons she learned from those times. What content creators can do to support their mental health. How to separate your personal from your professional life, and why that matters. Why it's important for creators to have a hobby. Resources: ZenFounder ZenFounder Podcast Sherry's previous episode of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast Headspace Full Focus The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together: How to Run Your Business Without Letting it Run You Gear Junkie We Study Billionaires: Wealth & Healthy with Jason Karp Touching Two Worlds Untangle Grief Refuge in Grief Empowered through Grief The Grief Project Follow Sherry on Instagram Join the Food Blogger Pro Podcast Facebook Group ----- This episode is sponsored by Clariti. Learn how you can organize your blog content for maximum growth by going to clariti.com/food. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for interviews, be sure to email them to podcast@foodbloggerpro.com. Learn more about joining the Food Blogger Pro community at foodbloggerpro.com/membership
In this riveting episode, Blair Kaplan Venables sits down with Dr. Sherry Walling to talk about success, grief and how she spends her free time. About the Guest:Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, and any manner of complex human experience. She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times. She was also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast series exploring innovations in mental health care via psychedelics.Her new book, Touching Two Worlds, is a poetic, incisive exploration of grief and joy in the aftermath of loss. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Sherry and her husband, Rob, reside in Minneapolis where they spend their time driving their children to music lessons. She has also been known to occasionally perform as a circus aerialist.www.SherryWalling.comhttps://zenfounder.com/https://www.touchingtwoworlds.com/ https://twitter.com/sherrywalling https://www.instagram.com/sherrywalling/About the Hosts:Blair Kaplan Venables is an expert in social media marketing and the president of Blair Kaplan Communications, a British Columbia-based PR agency. She brings fifteen years of experience to her clients which include global wellness, entertainment and lifestyle brands. She is the creator of the Social Media Empowerment Pillars, has helped her customers grow their followers into the tens of thousands in just one month, win integrative marketing awards and more. Blair is listed in USA Today as one of the top 10 conscious female leaders to watch in 2022 and Yahoo! listed Blair as a top ten social media expert to watch in 2021. She has spoken on national stages and her expertise has been featured in media outlets including Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur and Thrive Global. Blair is an international bestselling author and has recently published her second book, ‘The Global Resilience Project.' She is the co-host of the Dissecting Success podcast and in her free time, you can find Blair growing The Global Resilience Project's community where users share their stories of overcoming life's most difficult moments.www.blairkaplan.ca Theresa Lambert is an Online Business Strategy Coach with an impressive hotelier background in luxury Hospitality in the #1 Ski Resort in North America. She supports Female Coaches and Service based Entrepreneurs to get their first clients or scale to 6 figures and beyond through strategic, tangible, and practical support. Her mission: To make Business EASY so your life can be more FULL.In 2020 Theresa became the Bestselling Author of her book Achieve with Grace: A guide to elegance and effectiveness in intense workplaces. She is also a Speaker and the Podcast co-host of
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Sherry Walling: Resolving Trauma to Perform at Your Peak Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs navigate rapid growth, loss, and other complex human experiences. She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been downloaded more than IM times. Welcome to the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs, who want to achieve high sales and positively impact humanity! Join host, JV Crum III, as he goes inside the minds of conscious guests such as Millionaire Entrepreneurs and World-Class Business Experts. Like this Podcast? Get every episode delivered to you free! Subscribe in iTunes Download Your Free Money-Making Gift Now... "Born to Make Millions" Hypnotic Audio - Click Here Now! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps others find our podcast. Thanks so much! Inc Magazine "Top 13 Business Podcasts." Conscious Millionaire Network has over 3,5000 episodes that have been heard by over 100 million in 190 countries. Join us as a regular listener to get money-making and impact secrets on how you can grow your business and make a massive difference for humanity faster!
Sherry Walling: Resolving Trauma to Perform at Your Peak Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs navigate rapid growth, loss, and other complex human experiences. She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been downloaded more than IM times. Welcome to the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs, who want to achieve high sales and positively impact humanity! Join host, JV Crum III, as he goes inside the minds of conscious guests such as Millionaire Entrepreneurs and World-Class Business Experts. Like this Podcast? Get every episode delivered to you free! Subscribe in iTunes Download Your Free Money-Making Gift Now... "Born to Make Millions" Hypnotic Audio - Click Here Now! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps others find our podcast. Thanks so much! Inc Magazine "Top 13 Business Podcasts." Conscious Millionaire Network has over 3,5000 episodes that have been heard by over 100 million in 190 countries. Join us as a regular listener to get money-making and impact secrets on how you can grow your business and make a massive difference for humanity faster!
Is it possible to return to joy after the loss of a loved one? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Sherry Walling, PhD, on her new #book Touching Two Worlds: A Guide for Finding Hope in the Landscape of Loss. #MomentsWithMarianne with host Marianne Pestana airs every Tuesday at 3PM PST / 6PM EST and every Friday at 10AM PST/ 1PM EST in the Southern California area on KMET1490AM & 98.1 FM, ABC Talk News Radio affiliate! Not in the area? Click here to listen! https://tunein.com/radio/KMET-1490-s33999/ Sherry Walling, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. https://www.sherrywalling.comFor more show information visit: www.MariannePestana.com#bookclub #readinglist #book #bookish #MariannePestana #author #authorinterview #kmet1490am #SoundsTrue#SherryWalling #reading #mustread #personaldevelopment #hope #loss
You may create moments that are uncomfortable for others when you speak of the dead. The air may leave the room for a moment when as they freeze with fear and awkwardness. Their emotional uncertainty is not your work. - Dr. Sherry Walling Wellness + Wisdom Episode 515 Dr. Sherry Walling, a psychologist, author, and founder of the ZenFounder podcast, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast to talk about the lessons she learned from her own grieving process and what you can do to cope with the loss of your loved one. Do you know how to cope with your own grief or the grief of others? Join Dr. Sherry Walling and Josh Trent as they discuss the stages of grief, how to cope with the death of a loved one, why we shouldn't identify with our emotions, and what it means to time travel for our mental health. Listen To Episode 515 As Dr. Sherry Walling Uncovers: Losing A Loved One + How To Cope With The Discomfort Around Death Listening To Your Body + How To Choose Your Therapist The Privilege Of Witnessing Death And Birth Time Traveling For Mental Health How to Have Uncomfortable Conversations Are You Stressed Out Lately? Take a deep breath with the M21™ wellness guide: a simple yet powerful 21 minute morning system that melts stress and gives you more energy through 6 science-backed practices and breathwork. Click HERE to download for free. Is Your Energy Low? Looking for a cleaner brain fuel? Just one daily serving of Ketone-IQ™️ will help you feel sharper, more focused, and ready to take on the day. Click HERE to try HVMN's Ketone-IQ™ + Save 20% with the code "JOSH" *Review The WF Podcast & WIN $150 in wellness prizes! *Join The Facebook Group *Shop the Wellness Force Media Store *Organifi – Special 20% off to our listeners with the code ‘WELLNESSFORCE * Save 20% on LiftMode with code "JOSH20" until February 13, 2023 * PLUNGE – Save $150 with the code “WELLNESSFORCE" * Cured Nutrition - Save 20% with the code "WELLNESSFORCE" * NOOTOPIA - Save 10% with the code "JOSH10" * MitoZen – Save 10% with the code “WELLNESSFORCE” *PaleoValley - Save 15% with the code "JOSH" *Sauna Space - Save 10% with the code "JOSH10"
You may create moments that are uncomfortable for others when you speak of the dead. The air may leave the room for a moment when as they freeze with fear and awkwardness. Their emotional uncertainty is not your work. - Dr. Sherry Walling Are You Stressed Out Lately? Take a deep breath with the M21™ wellness guide: a simple yet powerful 21 minute morning system that melts stress and gives you more energy through 6 science-backed practices and breathwork. Click HERE to download for free. Is Your Energy Low? Looking for a cleaner brain fuel? Just one daily serving of Ketone-IQ™️ will help you feel sharper, more focused, and ready to take on the day. Click HERE to try HVMN's Ketone-IQ™ + Save 20% with the code "JOSH" *Review The WF Podcast & WIN $150 in wellness prizes! *Join The Facebook Group Wellness + Wisdom Episode 515 Dr. Sherry Walling, a psychologist, author, and founder of the ZenFounder podcast, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast to talk about the lessons she learned from her own grieving process and what you can do to cope with the loss of your loved one. Do you know how to cope with your own grief or the grief of others? Join Dr. Sherry Walling and Josh Trent as they discuss the stages of grief, how to cope with the death of a loved one, why we shouldn't identify with our emotions, and what it means to time travel for our mental health. Listen To Episode 515 As Dr. Sherry Walling Uncovers: [1:30] Knowing God Touching Two Worlds by Dr. Sherry Walling Why Dr. Sherry is now placing more importance on the here and now. The reason Josh was angry at God when he was younger and how he realized he didn't truly know God. Uncovering why our anger implies hurt or needs that are unmet. Why for Dr. Sherry anger towards God means that there's a longing for a return to spirituality and understanding of what God is. Anger is more powerful than despair. The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential by David R. Hawkins [10:00] The Stages Of Loss How anger expresses that something inside of us needs to change and why it's a parallel to passionate desire. Jordan Peterson Why energy can't be created or destroyed, only transmuted. On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross How the grief when we are dying is different from the grief that we feel when someone we love is dying. Why grief is not only sadness but also anger and other dynamic experiences. Non-linearity of grief: Why we can't follow a step-by-step path. [14:05] Losing A Loved One + How To Cope With The Discomfort Around Death Putting her knowledge as a trauma psychologist into practice when her dad passed and her brother committed suicide. How she got to understand that deep grief is universal and that no amount of training could make her exempt from the pain. The reason why we feel void when we lose a loved one. Why her patients and clients see her in a different way after reading her book. How her book has parts that are written about her for her and other parts that are written for others. Sharing your experience with others doesn't mean you're healed but it means that you're no longer bleeding. Why it's ok to let it be painful and uncomfortable for some time when someone's loved one dies. The importance of not skipping through the pain moment to the silver lining. Why the emotional quality of conversations about death should feel uncomfortable for a while. Transitioning to the celebration of the deceased person's life without alleviating the pain. [22:42] We Are Not What We Feel How birth and death go to the depths of what it is to be human and to love. The ways in which Dr. Sherry found a resemblance between death and birth when she was taking care of her dad. How not being close to birth and death makes us uncomfortable and scared of these experiences. Identifying with our emotions: Why we're not what we feel according to Josh. Why emotions can feel like statements. What happens when we get stuck in emotions or attach to a story. The power of softness, flexibility, and allowing ourselves to feel our feelings without attachment. 483 Wayland Myers | NonViolent Communication: How to Stop Arguments In 60 Seconds + The Power of Loving Detachment Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall Rosenberg A healthy way to detach ourselves from our feelings instead of identifying with them. Why language is essential when it comes to our emotions. How two opposed emotions can exist at the same time. [29:40] Listening To Your Body + How To Choose Your Therapist Listening to the spaces in our body that get triggered with curiosity. Transference: The client redirects their emotions about one person onto their therapist. Countertransference: The therapist projects their emotions onto the client. How we hold imprints of the people in our lives in our bodies. Why Dr. Sherry believes that a dysregulation is a helpful tool when we listen to it. Her own experience with countertransference. What behaviors we should look for within therapists and why it's important to observe our feelings toward them. The quickest way to spot the emotions that we have around our therapist. The importance of money and time containers in therapy. How some therapists can get a secondary gain from the sessions. [39:50] The Privilege Of Witnessing Death And Birth Josh explains why living well and dying well matter to him. The duality of moving between the world of the dead and the world of raising children and being in love. Why she feels privileged and empowered by being able to shift between the two worlds. The death process inside of us when we become parents. Why Dr. Sherry thinks we don't exist as an autonomous mechanism. The beauty of dyeing she saw when her dad was dying. Why she supports the raw version of her that wrote the book three years ago. How she holds space for her dad and brother during moments of grief. [48:10] Time Traveling For Mental Health How psychedelics help us with our grief by transcending the physical body. Dr. Sherry's experience with MDMA and how it added another layer to the memory of herself as her father's daughter. 481 Scott Jackson | Rewire Yourself: How To Create A Life You Love With Freedom From Subconscious Sabotage Why timelines are a big part of trauma and psychedelic-supported therapy. Traveling in time for our mental health: Revisiting the past, being fully present in the moment, and setting the future self up for success. The importance of finding and remembering early memories of joy. Joe Dispenza What hope means to Dr. Sherry and why it's a relationship with our future selves. Why gratitude is the opposite of resentment. How suicide can teach us about the meaning of life. Why play and challenging activities are important to Dr. Sherry. Zen Founder Podcast Power Quotes From The Show Having Uncomfortable Conversations "If I tell you a painful story and suddenly rush to all that I learned about it and all the reasons it's ok now, I skip through the painful moment. The emotional quality of the conversation becomes relief instead of discomfort. It's ok to let it be uncomfortable for a while and let people hold that space." - Dr. Sherry Walling Birth And Death "Birth and death are edge states. They are moments in our lives that don't happen very much but they get to the depths of what it is to be human, to be in love, and to show up for people in their most vulnerable moments." - Dr. Sherry Walling The Challenge Of Middle Adulthood "There's a duality between the world of aliveness and the world of the dead. Many of us will at times in our lives be called to move back and forth between those energies, that's the challenge of middle adulthood. You're in support and in connection to parents and elders who are further along the journey of death, and young ones who are just beginning life. You're a bridge between the world of becoming and the world of ending." - Dr. Sherry Walling Links From Today's Show Touching Two Worlds by Dr. Sherry Walling The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential by David R. Hawkins Jordan Peterson On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Detachment Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall Rosenberg 481 Scott Jackson | Rewire Yourself: How To Create A Life You Love With Freedom From Subconscious Sabotage Joe Dispenza Zen Founder Podcast Shop the Wellness Force Media Store breathwork.io Save 20% on LiftMode Products until February 13, 2023 PLUNGE – Save $150 with the code “WELLNESSFORCE" HIGHER DOSE INFRARED MAT - Get 15% off with the code “WELLNESSFORCE15“ Organifi – Special 20% off to our listeners with the code ‘WELLNESSFORCE' HVMN - Get 20% off your Ketone IQ order with the code "JOSH" MitoZen – Save 10% with the code “WELLNESSFORCE” Paleovalley – Save 15% on your ACV Complex with the code ‘JOSH' NOOTOPIA - Save 10% with the code "JOSH10" Activation Products – Save 20% with the code “WELLNESSFORCE” NEUVANA - Save 15% with the code “WELLNESSFORCE” SENSATE - Save $25 on your order with the code "JOSH25" DRY FARM WINES - Get an extra bottle of Pure Natural Wine with your order for just 1¢ CHILISLEEP - Save 25% on Josh's favorite ChiliSleep products with the code "JOSH" ION - Save 15% off sitewide with the code ‘JOSH1KS' TOUPS - Save 15% with the code "JOSH" Feel Free from Botanic Tonics – Save 40% when you use the code ‘WELLNESS40′ Drink LMNT – Zero Sugar Hydration: Get your free LMNT Sample Pack, with any purchase BREATHE - Save 20% by using the code “PODCAST20” Essential Oil Wizardry: Save 10% with the code ‘WELLNESSFORCE' MY GREEN MATTRESS - Save up to $125 on your order with the code "JOSH" NEUROHACKER - Save 15% with the code "WELLNESSFORCE" ALIVE WATER - Save 33% on your first order with the code "JOSH33" M21 Wellness Guide Wellness Force Community Leave Wellness + Wisdom a review on Apple Podcasts Dr. Sherry Walling Zen Founder Podcast Instagram Twitter About Dr. Sherry Walling Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, author, podcaster, and advocate for mental health. Her podcast, ZenFounder, assists entrepreneurs and leaders in navigating transition, growth, loss, and other complex human experiences. Touching Two Worlds, her new book, is a poetic, incisive exploration of grief and joy in the aftermath of loss. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, her best-selling book, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Sherry and her husband, Rob, live in Minneapolis and spend their days driving their kids to music lessons. She has also been seen performing as a circus aerialist on occasion.
On today's episode I have Dr. Sherry Walling joining me to share about her personal experience with publishing her book, Touching Two Worlds. This book explores new strategies for finding wholeness in the aftermath of loss. In the book, she reflects on the loss of her brother to suicide and her father to cancer. We also discuss working while grieving, the importance of community, seeking mental health professionals, and the benefits of getting the body moving regularly. Not to go without mentioning, her time studying abroad in Ghana and the impact that had on her perspective of working through traumatic events. Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. She is also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast exploring innovations in mental health care via psychedelics. Interested in connecting with Dr Sherry Walling? Website: https://www.sherrywalling.com/ Book Website: www.touchingtwoworlds.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sherrywalling/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherry-walling-phd/ Zen Founder: https://zenfounder.com/ Mind Curious: https://www.mindcure.com/podcasts Want to buy a copy of my book? You can do so here: https://spouse-ly.com/product/a-series-of-flashbacks-darkness-within/ Kindle version: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6HKCWY6 If you have questions or topics you'd like me to discuss, send an email to info@fromgrieftogold.com You can find me at: https://fromgrieftogold.com/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/fromgrieftogold Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fromgrieftogold/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissaanneorg/ If you'd like the show notes you can find them here: https://melissaanne.org/category/from-grief-to-gold Thanks for listening! Mel
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Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, and any manner of complex human experience. She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times. She was also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast series exploring innovations in mental health care via psychedelics.Her new book, Touching Two Worlds, is a poetic, incisive exploration of grief and joy in the aftermath of loss. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Connect with Dr. Walling on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherry-walling-phd/Visit Dr. Walling's Website: https://www.sherrywalling.com/Purchase The ZenFounder Guide to Founder Retreats: https://app.gumroad.com/l/retreatsOn This Episode, We Discuss... - The ZenFounder Guide to Founder's Retreats- Learning How to Come Out of Your Shell- The Benefits of Utilizing a Facilitator During a Company Retreat- Measuring the Turnover of Your Business
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She is the author of two books: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together and Touching Two Worlds: a guide for finding hope in the aftermath of loss. Sherry and her husband, Rob, reside in Minneapolis where they spend their time driving their children to music lessons. She has also been known to occasionally perform as a circus aerialist.Social Media Handle: Instagram: @sherrywallingPublications: Touching Two Worlds: a guide to finding hope in the landscape of lossMemorable Moments: 2:24 Any kind of human that's under a state of stress is dysregulated. Their body is elevated trying to react to a stressor. 2:32 To help someone feel better in the midst of stress is to reregulate or bring their body and their mind down to homeostasis. Thoughts go slower, the heart beats slower, and breath is slower. If we can turn the slow-motion dial on that often helps stress feel much more manageable and accessible.3:22 When we can feel that sense of agency over our bodies and our lives, that feels so much better than feeling stuck on the tilt-a-whirl at the fair. And we're just moving so fast and we're like, ‘Yeah, I wanna get off.'4:47 Being in my own grief after the losses (of my dad and brother), one of the things that were so helpful to me was I really connected with my own body. 6:13 When we get into some kind of emotional expression, we can breathe again. It's a big exhale. It's like putting down the heaviness of all that we are carrying and being present with a different experience.6:27 Emotional expression allows you to have a little lightness, a little levity, or really express some of those negative emotions. Feel into your anger. Feel into your fear, but not in a way that feels like it's going to be overwhelming for you.6:52 Our society is kind of set up to move quickly through grief. Like policies related to bereavement leave. You might go to your mom's funeral on Saturday and on Tuesday, you're supposed to be back at work. There's not a lot of space for grief.7:09 A lot of us feel like we gotta muscle through hard things when we're in pain or suffering. But the tendency is to just keep going, just keep moving, just be gritty. And those aren't bad messages. I just think they may be out of balance.7:30 Don't go around pain or suffering. Don't avoid it. Don't skip over it. Talk about it. Feel it. Express it. Move toward the heart of what's difficult, knowing that that's where all the growth lies. That's where all the lessons are. 8:03 When you go in and through something - for instance, grief - there's no part of you that you don't have access to. There's no part of you that you feel like you have to hide from.8:56 Writing can be helpful for people who like to journal. Writing about your own experience can be a really powerful way to do some of that in and through work.9:13 If you feel like you want the presence of another human, it will help to be in therapy or go to a support group where you can begin to tell the stories to give life and words to the things that feel painful. 9:33 You can also try expressive movement such as a five rhythms dance practice where you pair different kinds of movement with different kinds of emotion. It can be a yoga session. There's something really can be quite healing about holding a warrior position and lingering there and letting your body do the work to breathe through and to hold that position.10:55 Doing grief better means talking about grief. It's naming those that we've lost. Naming the hopes that we had that never came to be.11:12 Doing grief better means we're collectively comfortable moving in and out of tender spaces, knowing that we can do that with gentleness and with some graciousness and not feel like we have to, again, skip over it and just get back to work and get back to normal life. That is quite damaging to people who are in any kind of grief.Dear Mind, You Matter is brought to you by NOBU, a new mental health, and wellness app. To download NOBU, visit the app store or Google Play. This podcast is hosted by Allison Walsh and Angela Phillips. This podcast is produced by Allison Walsh, Savannah Eckstrom and Nicole LaNeve. For more information or if you're interested in being a guest on this podcast, please visit www.therecoveryvillage.com/dearmindyoumatter.
A conversation about grief, prayer, religion, loss, pleasure and pain, love, parenthood, IFS, and movement with the fantastic Dr. Sherry Walling! Bio: Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, and any manner of complex human experience. Sherry hosts the ZenFounder podcast, as well as Mind Curious, a podcast series exploring innovations in mental health care via psychedelics. Her new book, Touching Two Worlds, is a poetic, incisive exploration of grief and joy in the aftermath of loss. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Sherry and her husband, Rob, reside in Minneapolis where they spend their time driving their children to music lessons. She has also been known to occasionally perform as a circus aerialist. Links: @sherrywalling on Insta and Twitter touchingtwoworlds.com The talk Leia mentioned in the episode, Decolonizing the Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFvjqHDHhmk
Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author and mental health advocate. The psychologist behind ZenFounder, she provides mental health resources to entrepreneurs and leaders grappling with grief. She's incredibly wise, and can teach you how to support yourself and your clients during difficult times. She's a strong support system and a caring friend to those dealing with loss — and after speaking with her, I feel better equipped to do the same. I had Sherry on my podcast, Growing Your Financial Business… The Woman's Way to discuss: How you can stop grief from affecting your financial stability The importance of holding difficult conversations surrounding loss How you can take your client's mind off money in difficult times Making grief less scary Using loss to fuel the rest of your life Connect with Sherry Walling Website: https://www.sherrywalling.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherry-walling-phd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zenfounderpodcast/ Connect with Robyn Crane Website: https://robyncrane.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bizgrowth4women/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/robyn-crane-inc./ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RobynCrane Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyncrane/?hl=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Losing someone is an unavoidable experience, and while everyone experiences grief, very few people are adept at dealing with it. So, in this episode, we invited Sherry Walling to speak about her substantial experience coping with loss and how she expressed her emotion to her children for them to understand and heal. Listen in to learn about the action steps to dealing with loss in a unique manner. Key takeaways to listen for Ways to overcome grief and settle your emotions How to communicate grief to your children The different levels of grief following the loss of a family member 2 simple ideas to educate children about the death of a loved one Why is it important to allow your children to experience sadness? About Sherry Walling Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, and any manner of complex human experience. She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times. She was also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast series exploring innovations in mental health care via psychedelics. Her new book, Touching Two Worlds, is a poetic, incisive exploration of grief and joy in the aftermath of loss. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Connect with Sherry Website: Touching Two Worlds Instagram: @sherrywalling Twitter: @sherrywalling Connect with Us To learn more about us, visit our website at www.18summers.com or email us at info@18summers.com. To get a copy of our book “The Family Board Meeting,” click here. Subscribe to 18 Summers Podcast and leave a rating and written review! Social Media Channels Facebook Group: 18 Summers LinkedIn: Jimmy Sheils Instagram: @18summerstribe
Ep #146 - In today's podcast episode, I'm joined by Dr. Sherry Walling, a speaker, podcaster, best-selling author, mental health advocate and clinical psychologist. In her professional capacity, Sherry helps smart people do hard things. Pairing her professional training with her personal experience, she's been able to help high intensity entrepreneurs to work through the hardest parts of running and growing a business. Dr. Walling hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been downloaded more than a million times and has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. She is also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast exploring psychedelics and innovation in mental health care. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Her newly released book, Touching Two Worlds, explores new strategies for finding hope in the aftermath of loss. Learn More About Dr. Sherry Walling: Visit Dr. Sherry Walling's website: https://www.sherrywalling.com/ Visit the Zen Founder website: https://zenfounder.com/ Visit the 'Touching Two Worlds' book website: https://thefinanser.com/ Connect with Dr. Sherry Walling on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherry-walling-phd/ Follow Dr. Sherry Walling on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sherrywalling Also, please remember to subscribe, rate, and leave a written review for the show if you find value in it. Your reviews help this show to reach a wider audience and I appreciate everyone that has been leaving them. FOLLOW CHARLES GAUDET ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Follow Charles Gaudet on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/charlesgaudet Follow Charles Gaudet on Facebook: https://facebook.com/charlesgaudet Follow Charles Gaudet on Twitter: https://twitter.com/charlesgaudet VISIT THE PREDICTABLE PROFITS WEBSITE: https://PredictableProfits.com
“Grief is the price we pay for love." ― Queen Elizabeth II In this episode, Sherry shares her perspective and highlights: Understanding that grief can occur for the loss of a job, a shift in identity, as your child grows older, etc., and the importance of acknowledging grief when it comes Connecting that feelings of grief are linked to living a life that is full of connection and forward momentum Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Her soon-to-be-released new book, Touching Two Worlds, explores new strategies for finding wholeness in the aftermath of loss. Find out more about her book and events @sherrywalling Continue the conversation on Instagram @heatherchauvin_ For a limited time, apply for the Attracting Profit Intensives one-on-one coaching here: http://heatherchauvin.com/workwithme Take the ENERGY FINDER Quiz: https://heatherchauvin.com/lifequiz
Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, and any manner of complex human experience.Please leave a 5-star review on Apple & Spotify! This episode was edited and produced by Josh Perez.Follow Make Something Cool on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, or YouTube.
Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate.She is graduate of the University of California, Davis and Fuller School of Psychology. She has a PhD in clinical psychology and master's degrees in both psychology and theology and completed research fellowships at Yale University School of Medicine and the National Center for PTSD in Boston.She spent several years working with veterans before going on to become the director of clinical training at House Psychiatric Clinic in Fresno, California.Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience.Her soon-to-be-released new book, Touching Two Worlds, Sherry explores the inner workings of her own grief—and leaves a kind of hand-drawn map for those rebuilding hope in the aftermath of loss.Sherry and her husband, Rob, reside in Minneapolis where they spend their time driving their children to music lessons. She has also been known to occasionally perform as a circus aerialist.She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times. She is also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast exploring innovations in mental health care via psychedelics.Her best-selling book,The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there.In This EpisodeSherry's websiteTouching Two WorldsZen FounderThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement
In this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison are joined by Dr. Sherry Walling. Sherry is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate among other things transition, rapid growth, and loss. She hosts the ZenFounder Podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times. She was also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast series exploring innovations in mental health care via psychedelics.We talk to Sherry Today about her new book, Touching Two Worlds.(2:28) Sherry introduces herself(3:20) Sherry is a circus artist(6:48) Sherry's grief story and the inspiration for her book(12:53) Sherry's experience with psychedelic-assisted therapy for grief (15:50) The value of defense mechanisms (17:50) Embodied practices and physical expression for processing grief (23:22) MAPS MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD(24:20) The duality inherent in the grief process (26:00) The Wild Edge of Sorrow, by Francis Weller, MFT(26:45) Honoring your grief and comparing it to childbirth(30:33) What psychedelic-assisted therapy has to offer in the grief process(33:33) The parallels between supporting infants and those whose lives are ending(36:12) Different types of grief (40:36) Reid's experience with grief during an ayahuasca experience (45:35) Sherry's experience writing such a personal book(48:00) Sherry's, website, Instagram and ZenFounder businessEmail us questions and feedback at psychfrontiers@novamind.ca Learn more about our podcast at https://www.psychedelictherapyfrontiers.com/Learn more about Novamind at https://www.novamind.ca/Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drstevethayer/https://www.instagram.com/innerspacedoctor/https://www.instagram.com/novamind_inc/Disclaimer: The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice or mental health treatment. Consult with a medical/mental health professional if you believe you are in need of mental health treatment.
We have clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, mental health advocate, and founder of ZenFounder, Dr. Sherry Walling, stopping by for a fascinating discussion on finding hope in times of loss and turmoil. Grief is one of the few human certainties we'll all inevitably have to experience. In this conversation, we dive into grief, finding our way out of the darkness, dealing with the aftermath of loss, and her newest book ‘Touching Two Worlds: A Guide for Finding Hope in the Landscape of loss' and much more. Connect with Dr. Walling Website: https://www.sherrywalling.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherry-walling-phd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sherrywalling/ Touching Two Worlds: https://www.amazon.com/Touching-Two-Worlds-Finding-Landscape/dp/1683649672/ Podcast (listen at all major outlets): https://zenfounder.com/podcast Connect with Julian Become a health concierge client: julian@theartoffitnessandlife.com Connect with me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thejulianhayes Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianhayes --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/executive-health/message
Dr. Sherry Walling joins Dawson for a conversation about grief and loss based on her newest book, Touching Two Worlds: A Guide for Finding Hope in the Landscape of Loss. Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, best-selling author, yoga teacher, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, provides mental wellness resources to leaders and entrepreneurs as they navigate transition, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Her soon-to-be-released new book, Touching Two Worlds, explores new strategies for finding wholeness in the aftermath of loss. Dr. Walling is an expert in trauma, stress and burnout and her research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Traumatic Stress. Website: https://www.sherrywalling.com/ Dawson's website: http://dawsongift.com/ #eft #eftuniverse #mindtomatter #blissbrain #grief #loss #healing #findinghope
I am so happy to chat with Sherry Walling clinical psychologist, speaker, Yoga teacher, and the host of Zenfounder Podcast! Sherry will share with us her new book: Touching Two Worlds, a guide for finding hope in the landscape of loss. Today's Episode is about living in grief and joy and how Yoga can help us during these trying times. Connect with Sherry Walling: SherryWalling.com ZenFounder.com Sherry Walling, PhD on LinkedIn @sherrywalling on Twitter and Instagram Connect to Yoga And... Podcast Please support us on Patreon: patreon.com/yogaandpodcast Please write us a glowing review wherever you get your Podcasts yogaandpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: yogaandpodcast Earth Commons: https://earth-commons.com Use promo code: YOGAAND to get 10% off your next order! Help the Ukraine: https://www.razomforukraine.org Support the Ukraine Military: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/ Yoga Knees: https://yogaknees.com Use promo code: YOGAAND to get 10% off your next order! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yogaandpodcast/message
“I'd watch so many people find their way through painful experiences so that when I experienced mine, I had this deep sense of knowing that I wouldn't get lost in it, that I would meander out eventually.” Dr. Sherry is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, yoga teacher, mental advocate, and bestselling author who's just published her latest book - Touching Two Worlds. Through her company, ZenFounder, Dr. Sherry empowers leaders and entrepreneurs to do hard things by exploring creative ways to get unstuck.Despite grief being a certainty, most of us struggle to navigate the landscape of loss. Dr. Sherry lost her dad to cancer and her brother to suicide within six months of each other. In this episode, Dr. Sherry shares what she learned through her experience of “touching two worlds.” This conversation is a potent exploration of death, loss, and grief inspired by Dr. Sherry's own lived wisdom combined with her experience guiding others through painful experiences. Sherry's wisdom inspires the confidence to learn how to grieve while providing an invitation to explore your own relationship with death and dying. “The book is called touching two worlds because of that, because of the permission to be in grief and in the shadowy dark places, and also to be enjoy and be in creative creativity and be in love and being gratitude.” Blurb 3: Why the listener wants to listen to this episodeKey takeaways:Differentiating between moments to learn and moments to grieve and feel. Integrating the mind, heart, and body. Meaning-making as a strategy for escapism. Allowing as a tool for presence and integration. Sherry's experience of fighting for her brother. “I love you”… the most powerful force on this planet. Noticing the traces of love throughout our lives. The art of touching two worlds. How circus arts helped Sherry navigate grief.Making an appointment with grief. What is aliveness?Contact Info:Buy Sherry's new book >>> https://www.touchingtwoworlds.comExplore Sherry's work here >>> https://www.sherrywalling.comListen to Sherry's podcast >>> https://www.sherrywalling.com/podcastWe thrive on your feedback, so if you've enjoyed this show, please rate us and leave us a review. And don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode again. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Sherry is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate whose company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. She experienced her own cycle of grief when, in her forties, she lost her dad to cancer and, only six months later, lost her brother to suicide. In response to this journey, she penned Touching Two Worlds, a just-released book (July 26, 2022) that explores new strategies for finding wholeness in the aftermath of loss. It is her intimate and deeply personal story that is crafted like a trail of breadcrumbs for others who will, one day, experience grief of their own. Connect with Sherry at zenfounder.com and purchase her latest book at your local bookstore or touchingtwoworlds.com. Contact Us: Email: amgits.reverse@gmail.com Instagram: @brushcreekthrivers Facebook: From Survivor to Thriver
Everyone has been affected by grief at some point in life. You may have experienced a devastating loss of a friend or family member or felt America's collective grief during the pandemic, a contentious election, and news of war. In grief, we are saddled between two worlds. One in which we feel devastating loss. In the other, we show up for work, go on vacation, watch funny movies and give ourselves permission to feel joy and laughter. Here to help us navigate these two worlds is my friend Dr. Sherry Walling. Sherry is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss and conflict. In today's episode, we discuss: Sherry's second book, Touching Two Worlds, explores new strategies for finding wholeness in the aftermath of loss. Why leaders may have a hard time addressing mental health topics with their teams How Sherry personally experienced grief and loss (and its effect on her career) Why the Great Resignation was a wake-up call for employers Comparative suffering, compartmentalization, and what it means for us to “touch two worlds” Here are other resources I mention: Order Touching Two Worlds today! The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together ZenFounder & MindCurious podcasts Follow Sherry on social media @SherryWalling Stay connected to Diary of a Doer: Have you subscribed to my podcast? If the answer is no, I'd love for you to subscribe. Diary of a Doer is full of stories of business, some behind the scenes, and freaking amazing guests. If you're feeling really generous, I'd love for you to give me a review over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps me out a ton! If you like this episode, you may be interested in:How to Lead When You're in a Hard Season of Life (Season 3, Episode 15)Unapologetically Build a Business On Your Own Terms (Season 3, Episode 11)The Retention Roadmap: Encourage (Season 3, Episode 03) Schedule a FREE strategy call! A Leader's New Hire Checklist Connect with Priority VA Follow me at @Trivinia
So how are entrepreneurs doing lately? Dr. Sherry Walling joins the show for the second time around to give some insight into the state of entrepreneurship today, including whether entrepreneurs are re-evaluating their lives and businesses as the world emerges from the pandemic. As a Clinical Psychologist that specializes in helping entrepreneurs with their mental health, and the founder of the ZenFounder.com podcast, she has a unique finger on the pulse of what it's like to be an entrepreneur in the world today. Listen in as we talk about some of the most common myths that entrepreneurs tell themselves, what it can look like to balance work and personal life successfully as an entrepreneur, and whether it is actually more stressful to be an entrepreneur today than at any other time. We also explore grief and psychedelics, including the strategies that Sherry personally used to grieve and how she uses psychedelics therapeutically in her practice. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3RLT4Wo Interested in our Private Community for 7-Figure Store Owners? Learn more here. Want to hear about new episodes and eCommerce news round-ups? Subscribe via email.
Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company,ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. She hosts theZenFounderpodcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times. She is also the host ofMind Curious, a podcast exploring innovations in mental health care via psychedelics. Her best-selling book,The Entrepreneur's Guide toKeeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Her soon-to-be-released new book,Touching Two Worlds, explores new strategies for finding wholeness in the aftermath of loss. Sherry and her husband, Rob, reside in Minneapolis where they spend their time driving their children to music lessons. She has also been known to occasionally perform as a circus aerialist. Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute
Relationship expert and ZenFounder team member Brooke Bergman hosts the podcast this week to talk about love and grief. She explores how they both impact and interact with one another, how the ability to grieve well can determine the course of your love , and things to consider when one or both partners in a relationship are grieving. Touching Two Worlds
Jack and Dr. Sherry Walling dive deep into our minds to discuss burnout, depression, the benefits of neurological diversification, the mental health fallout from Covid, psychedelic assisted therapy, and more for people who work for themselves.They also get into the mindset, values and traits of becoming and sustaining going out on your own as an entrepreneur.Dr. Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, best-selling author, yoga teacher, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, provides mental wellness resources to leaders and entrepreneurs as they navigate transition, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience.
What does it take to have a high performing team? How can managers be better at providing feedback to help their team grow? On this episode we sit down with Dr. Sherry Walling. Sherry is an clinical psychologist, author, aerialist and CEO of Zenfounder. She has been around entrepreneurs and business leaders for a long time learning all of the things they deal with and how to help them navigate business and life changes. During our conversation Sherry shares insights into how leaders can mold high performing teams and the importance on having a physical hobby to rewire your brain. She also talks about her new book Touching Two Worlds tackles the difficult topic of grief and how to handle it. Enjoy.
ZenFounder team member, Brooke Bergman Parr hosts the podcast this week to talk about how the pandemic has reshaped romance. She shares reflections of the state of our relationships 2 years into Covid. From her work as a relationship expert she gives her insights and hopes to change the conversation about how we love.
We are delighted to be speaking to Sherry Walling, PhD, today. Sherry is an amazing person! She and her husband are both entrepreneurs. Sherry hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has produced 300 episodes so far, and she is also the owner of a company called ZenFounder. Sherry offers mental health advice for entrepreneurs. She has a new book coming out soon, called Touching Two Worlds. It is about mental health and ensuring that you know how to take care of yourself as a business owner. In this episode, Sherry tells her professional story, shares her experience, and talks about her new book. She describes the similarities between trauma from combat and the trauma experienced by entrepreneurs. She also talks about using psychedelic drugs to cure trauma, what we can do to prevent burnout, and coping with grief as a business owner. We hope you enjoy our insightful conversation with Sherry Walling! Bio Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, best-selling author, yoga teacher, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps leaders and entrepreneurs navigate transition, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times. She is also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast exploring psychedelics and innovations in mental health care. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Her soon-to-be-released book, Touching Two Worlds, explores new strategies for grief and wholeness in the aftermath of loss. Sherry and her husband, Rob, reside in Minneapolis where they spend their time driving their children to music lessons. She has also been known to occasionally perform as a circus aerialist. Sherry's story Sherry started her career as a clinical psychologist working in a traditional environment. She worked with veterans at the VA Hospital, so she developed expertise in treating trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. She found that the traumas of the people she worked with often occurred within the context of their jobs, so she often helped them work through their relationship to their jobs. Working with entrepreneurs She later started working with entrepreneurs, helping them to explore their relationships with their business or work when their business is psychologically expensive. The mental health of entrepreneurs Sherry married an entrepreneur in the software space, so she spent a lot of time with entrepreneurs. There was not much talk going on about their mental health, so at one point, it made sense for her to start considering their mental health needs. The first tipping point Two tipping points made Sherry decide to start a business of her own. The first happened in 2017, when Aaron Swartz, the founder of Reddit, committed suicide. It upset her husband, and Sherry realized she could help by offering some skills and insight into that community. So she started a podcast, a series of conference presentations, and some open public conversations around mental health in the entrepreneurial community. The second tipping point The second tipping point happened a few years later when her husband sold his company. They moved from California to Minneapolis, so Sherry left her job and decided to do something new and different. Similarities There are many similarities between the work Sherry does today and the work she did before with veterans. Both situations involve working with highly motivated people climbing ladders and chasing goals. She found the personalities of the people she has worked with, in both situations, quite similar. Trauma Trauma consistently affects all bodies. It causes an overwhelming amount of physiological stress. Trauma from combat looks physiologically similar to trauma related to a sexual assault or a shooting incident, so a similar conversation is required to integrate the bodies of all traumatized people with their minds and hearts in their pursuit of health. A spectrum Trauma falls on a spectrum. PTSD trauma is on one end of the spectrum because the system gets completely overwhelmed. On the other end of the spectrum, there is some homeostasis, calm, or relaxed state. The stress that comes from entrepreneurship is somewhere in the middle. Threat For some entrepreneurs, the threat of potentially losing their livelihood can be traumatic. Psychedelic drugs to cure trauma In research studies, the use of MDMA, or Ecstasy, has shown tremendous promise for treating PTSD. Sherry co-hosts another podcast called The Mind Curious, which addresses using psychedelics for mental health. Burnout prevention Sherry recommends activities like play, exercise, and meditation to prevent burnout because those activities provide balance for the brain. The future Sherry thinks we will see a combination of hybrid, remote, and in-person for work in the future. Grief Business owners should be a little more authentic than they usually permit themselves to be around grief. Grief usually requires stopping and being still for a while. If you are a customer-facing professional or deal with people in your job, create corners in your life where you have space for grief. Sherry's new book In Sherry's new book, Touching Two Worlds, she wrote about what was happening in her life after losing both her dad and her brother within a few months. It contains memoirs and her thoughts as a psychologist on coping with grief a little better. It is due to come out in July. 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To celebrate the 300th episode milestone, Rob joins Sherry to talk about the evolution of the podcast and reflect on what it has meant to them. They discuss some of their favorite episodes as well as what the future holds for ZenFounder.
This week's episode is hosted by Brooke Bergman, a ZenFounder team member and relationship specialist. Brooke talks about some practical ways you can improve your mental health and prevent problemsbefore they arise. She discusses strategies and dives deep on the differences between flow state and non-flow state exercises.
Due to the covid-19 landscape more people than ever have left their jobs and plan on creating their own opportunities. Having been recently contacted by Intuit Inc. to be involved in a campaign to help raise awareness around the unique challenges and needs of early stage entrepreneurs, Sherry shares her insights on the topic in this episode.
What Are The Real Qualities You Need To Be a Successful Entrepreneur? Next Thursday, October the 28th at 9 am PST we will be interviewing Sherry Walling PhD of the "Zen Founder" & "Mind Curious" podcasts You can join us live on WP-Tonic's Facebook group page and YouTube, where you be able to watch the whole interview (plus bonus content) live we will be discussing the real qualities needed to be an effective entrepreneur or leader, is social media damaging us and our children, and education, plus IQ testing. It should be a fascinating interview please join us. Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, best-selling author, yoga teacher, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, provides mental wellness resources to leaders and entrepreneurs as they navigate the transition, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. She is also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast exploring innovations in mental health care and the new science of psychedelics.Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Dr. Walling is an expert in trauma, stress, and burnout and her research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Traumatic Stress Sherry and her husband, Rob, reside in Minneapolis where they spend their time driving their children to music lessons. She has also been known to occasionally perform as a circus aerialist. Rob Walling the joint founder of Drip and the host of the popular podcast "Start-up For Rest of Us." https://www.sherrywalling.com/
Are you a firm owner with feelings of burnout? Are you an attorney with work-life boundary issues? It's so common and easy for us attorneys to let our mental health take a backseat to our work and our businesses. Dr. Sherry Walling helps smart people do hard things. She is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, angel investor, entrepreneur, yoga teacher, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, provides mental health-related resources to leaders and entrepreneurs as they navigate transition, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. Sherry joins us to help navigate the mental pitfalls of legal entrepreneurship and practice. We discuss the subtle exhaustion, stress, and burnout that founder/owners experience, and the choices we make about boundaries and workload management. There are ways to deal with the mental-health pain points of running your own firm and reset your approach in a healthy way, and Sherry delivers a lot of insight. These are incredibly important topics that affect every interaction of your business and certainly affect your client service. All that said, this conversation isn't a 30-minute slog - we keep it light and hopefully you connect with a lot of what we cover. I think you will. Find Sherry at https://www.sherrywalling.com or on the ZenFounder podcast here: https://zenfounder.com/category/episodes/ FiveStarCounsel.com Get our FREE client service whitepaper! Join the Five Star Counsellors FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1575616019297055 Here's a link for you to get 20% off your first year of using Text Expander! - https://fivestarcounsel.com/textexpander
Layout catch Sherry talks about what she is learning running her business/professional life and through trapeze training. For her trapeze training is her play. Play is important to how she conceptualizes well being and mental health. Play helps people feel hopeful, helps people rest, and restores motivation. In this episode Sherry gives some lessons trapeze […] The post Episode 273: Trapeze and the Circus of Leadership appeared first on ZenFounder.
In this episode Sherry asks the question, how do people heal in the aftermath of terrible experiences? So many of us are in the process of trying to re-calibrate and re-inordinate after a major time of up-hovel, grief, and recovery. Sherry shares a personal story that she hopes can provide insight and demonstrate some key […] The post Episode 272: Speaking Your Truth to Heal and Grow appeared first on ZenFounder.
Sherry talks with Emily Fletcher, the founder of Ziva Meditation and a leading expert in meditation for performance. They talk about Emily’s upcoming program zivaKIDS!, a new resource that helps kids learn to meditate. zivaKIDS! The post Episode 271: Turning Kids into Meditating Superheros with Emily Fletcher appeared first on ZenFounder.
Sherry talks with David Burkus, author and former business school professor who holds a doctorate in strategic leadership, about his new book “Leading From Anywhere: The Essential Guide to Managing Remote Teams”. They discuss the opportunities of having a fully remote company, building culture remotely, tracking productivity and more. David’s Book The post Episode 270: Leading from Anywhere with David Burkus appeared first on ZenFounder.
Today’s episode is a throwback to a pair of previous episodes that focused on the practice of taking a founder’s retreat. A retreat is a foundational practice that really helps establish mental heath and clarity that can change the tone of your both personal and professional life. Sherry’s Retreat Book The post Episode 269: Intro to Retreat Reboot appeared first on ZenFounder.
http://microconfremote.com Startup Founders In Cars Getting Coffee: Founder Origin Stories Dr. Sherry Walling has spent nearly 300 episodes on her podcast, ZenFounder, talking about the in’s and out’s of the founder psychology. That, along with a doctorate in clinical psychology and years of working with entrepreneurs, has helped her put together a couple of avatars for the variety of founders you see in the startup work. Join her and Rob as they talk about the origin stories of many founders, and see which one you relate most to. If you want to join in on the conversation with over 1400 other founders, join MicroConf Connect, a slack community space where you can meet founders from around the globe working on cool products in a sustainable way. Head over to http://microconfconnect.com for more details. This video was recorded on September 1, 2020 in Minneapolis MN. All proper social distancing, PPE, and health and safety measures were taken in the production of this show. Note, this is not a live session, so calls for questions, survey, etc… are all pre-recorded.
Today we'll be talking to Dr. Sherry Walling. A clinical psychologist, Sherry has a ridiculous amount of education and is incredibly smart. She has some great insights into us as entrepreneurs and how we operate and balance our businesses and families. Today we're going to talk about her education and her work with entrepreneurs and startups. She'll share some insights on what makes us tick and how we can look at ourselves differently. We'll also talk about questions to ask yourself before a transition and how we can balance the way we interact with our businesses and how we interact with our kids. In This Episode You'll Learn: Information about Sherry's education and how she translates this into working with entrepreneurs, which is a world with few guidelines. Some of the problems that Sherry sees with entrepreneurs and entrepreneurism and how she addresses these issues. The four main values that entrepreneurs use to decide how to spend their time and what to focus on, as well as some of the liabilities of those values. How entrepreneurs really feel about their businesses. Tips on how to diversify your passions and not focus too much on your business to the detriment of other things in your life. Ways to keep in touch with yourself through deep breathing, journaling, and self-assessment. Thoughts on planning for bad things that might happen. How opening a second or subsequent business changes an entrepreneur's mindset. Some of the topics that Sherry and her husband talk about on their podcast. Takeaways: You just have to sit down and figure out what's important to you and what you're getting out of the business in terms of passion, purpose, and satisfaction. It takes real work; diversifying isn't always fun at first, but it's necessary. You might need to have a “funeral” for your business and mourn for it if you want to be at peace with what you want to do next in life. It's vital to take time to take a deep breath, meditate, go to the gym, or whatever it takes to self-reflect and take yourself outside of the day-to-day “doing.” Links and Resources: The Value Vantage ZenFounder Podcast The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your S**t Together Wait But Why – The Tail End About Sherry Walling: Dr. Sherry Walling is a licensed clinical psychologist and the co-host of the ZenFounder podcast.
Hey we've got a party episode with Rob and Sherry Walling from the podcast ZenFounder. We are going to discuss how to balance life with kids and entrepreneurship. We explore the common problems with living with kids and keeping a business going. We also discuss how entrepreneurship affects marriage. Rob and Sherry share how they are able to keep their communication open. We also discuss how we ourselves cope with the struggles of keeping family and entrepreneurship in a fair balance. [tweetthis]Working for a boss was not even a possibility when you see that & you know entrepreneurship as the default. - Jordan[/tweetthis] Here are today's conversation points: The issues we have the public school systems. How to encourage entrepreneurship with your kids. How entrepreneurship affects marriage. How to leave work behind at the end of the day. Why spouses aren't necessarily the best person to vent to or use as a soundboard. How kids change your goals and motivations. How to deal with burnout. How to make the shift from work time to family time. How to plan your week beforehand. The importance of giving your spouse non-kid time. [tweetthis]I find a lot more value in having Mastermind groups and friends and advisors to talk about real issues. - Brian[/tweetthis] Resources Mentioned Today: Rob Walling on Twitter Sherry Walling on Twitter ZenFounder MicroConf Vegas As always, thanks for tuning in. Head here to leave a review in iTunes.