{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What Works","title":"EP 244: Managing Anxiety As An Entrepreneur With Supernova Collective Creator Jo Casey","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2731,"description":"\n\n\n\n\nThe Nitty-Gritty:\n\n\n\n* How coach and business strategist Jo Casey manages her anxiety as an entrepreneur* The situation that revealed just how big an impact anxiety had on how she ran her business* How setting clearer boundaries and doubling her rates helped to get back on track* Why she’s simplified her business as a way of managing her anxiety* The positive results she’s seen by making her anxiety conscious and working to manage it productively\n\n\n\n\n\nWait, my anxiety isn’t normal?\n\n\n\nWe were driving along Interstate 90 somewhere between Chicago and Minneapolis on the hottest day of the summer.\n\n\n\nSean asked me, “Can you remember a time when you didn’t feel anxious?”\n\n\n\nI paused. I thought. I looked back over the key periods of my life.\n\n\n\n“Well, no. I can’t remember a time I didn’t feel anxious,” I finally responded.\n\n\n\nHonestly, I was surprised.\n\n\n\nYou see, I’ve spent my whole adolescent and adult life being hyper-aware of my history of depression. Even when I’m feeling good, I’m on the look out for the warning signs.\n\n\n\nI realize that might sound a bit anxious all on its own—but looking for the warning signs has allowed me to get help before things got really bad a numbers of times.\n\n\n\nI’ve spent the last 7 years or so fairly free of depressive episodes and generally considered my mental health to be strong.\n\n\n\nSo this realization that anxiety—that tight feeling in my chest, the lump at the pit of my stomach, the prickly skin, the whirling mind, the foreboding sense that at any moment things could all fall apart…\n\n\n\nThat realization that anxiety has always been with me and—get this—that it isn’t normal? **It was a shock.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs I started to examine the impact anxiety has had on me, I couldn’t help but see its presence all over my business.\n\n\n\nNow, here’s the thing. You might be surprised to learn just how big an impact anxiety has had on me and my business over the years.\n\n\n\nYou probably don’t think of me as someone who struggles to make decisions or...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AmfGeDL96-fhMaeOcqmX7TK_eWrvTLco6OJj2QpZtZI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NGUx/OWY5ZDg1M2E5MmU3/ZjEwOWVmNDM3MWVh/ZjZlOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}