Psychologist to entrepreneurs. Author 2x. Podcaster. Speaker. Advocate for psychedelic therapy. Contributor to @Entrepreneur. Lover of circus. In grief.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined April 2012
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When she had no hope of her own, Kim Witczak borrowed it. Then she turned it into a fight. After losing her husband Woody to suicide weeks after he started an antidepressant, Kim became a drug-safety advocate who took on Big Pharma and the FDA.
New episode of Permission, live on all platforms @woodymatters
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Kim Witczak was an advertising exec who had never once thought of herself as an activist. Then her husband Woody died by suicide, weeks after starting a new medication, and the story she was handed didn’t hold up.
So she asked the questions nobody wanted asked, pushed the FDA and helped change how an entire industry warns people about risk.
Permission to Fight. New episode with Kim Witczak.
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@cadredc believes we’re in a fun recession, and I think he’s right. Most adults aren’t having anywhere near the amount of fun they’re built for.
His fix? He goes to about 25 concerts a year, and when people tell him that’s nuts, he points to the science.
Derek Coburn on this week’s Permission.
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@robwalling names the real skill of entrepreneurship: making hard decisions with incomplete information, which, as he says, is basically what you do every day.
The episode is live now, wherever you listen. Link in bio.
And Idea to Traction, his sixth book, is out today: frameworks for the most uncertain and riskiest stage of your business (finding the right idea, validating demand, pricing, product-market fit) from someone who’s done it again and again. Preorder at ideatotractionbook.com
There's always someone, usually someone who means well, telling you you'd be bigger if you just played the game: post more, chase the numbers, be a version of yourself that's easier to sell.
@asmartbear on Episode 1 of Permission with Dr. Sherry Walling.
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Well, I made a podcast. It's called Permission, and as of today it's out in the world, which is thrilling!
I'm starting with two episodes so you can binge.
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First, @asmartbear on permission to build a life and a company in the shape of who you actually are.
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Second, Mia Sundstrom of the National Institute for Play on permission to play, which turns out to be harder for most of us than it sounds.
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Both are live right now. Listen, and if it's your kind of thing, follow along so the next ones find you.
When did we all start waiting for permission? Permission to rest (revolutionary, I know). Or to change your mind. Or to want a completely different life than the one you spent years building.
I didn't have an answer, so I did the reasonable thing and started a podcast.
My first guest is @asmartbear on building a company in the shape of you. Next, I'm talking with @robwalling, @miasundstrom99, and @cadredc: a serial entrepreneur who rewrote his own script, a scientist who studies play, and a founder who thinks we're all having too little fun.
The first episode drops October 6th. Follow wherever you listen and I'll see you there!
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New show, same feed. It starts October 6th.
Permission is for the ones going off script. We'll get into play, aliveness, community, expanding consciousness, all the things that make for a full inner life and a joyful one.
Follow now. Launch Oct 6th pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5…
I'm on Bloomberg this week, talking about what happens to founders after the exit they dreamed of.
The wire clears. The champagne pops. And then — for a lot of people — something quietly falls apart.
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Thinking about your own exit?
Rob Walling and I wrote the book we wish every founder had before they sold — exitstrategybook.com/
Knowing your stress style doesn't make it disappear.
But it makes it easier to stop treating it like a character defect and instead build the support you need around it.
Most entrepreneurs who are burning out already know what they need. The problem is they won't let themselves have it.
Here's the psychology of why we do this to ourselves.
There are 4 psychological drivers of overworking.
Quick gut check: when someone asks how you are and you say "I'm so busy" — does it feel like a complaint, or do you get a little pride hit from it? If it's the latter — that's a signal worth examining.