{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What Works","title":"EP 278: Prioritizing Your Mental Health With Chris Brogan","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3028,"description":"\n\n\n\n\nIn This Episode:\n\n\n\n* Bestselling author & business consultant Chris Brogan shares how depression and anxiety impact his experience as an entrepreneur* Why he always knows what he can “drop” when things get rough and what he isn’t willing to let slide* Why he has been transparent about his mental health challenges on social media and how he’s helping to reduce the stigma for others* How he approaches his conversations with others to be as supportive as he can, while also creating his own support network\n\n\n\n\n\nI have received an outpouring of gratitude in the last 6 weeks.\n\n\n\nTelling you that makes me quite uncomfortable and feels self-serving, but I promise there’s a point.\n\n\n\nThe messages I’ve received have thanked me for being a leader and for sharing how I’m personally processing both our public health crisis and our economic pause.\n\n\n\nMany of these messages have also ended with something along the lines of: I hope there’s someone supporting you right now.\n\n\n\nAnd that’s why I’m sharing this with you. Because, sure, I know that sharing how I feel, what I’m doing to navigate planning or marketing, and how I’m coping is helpful.\n\n\n\nBut what I think is really helpful about what I’ve been sharing?\n\n\n\nIt’s showing people that they’re not alone.\n\n\n\nI think that’s what they’re really saying to me when they say “I hope there’s something supporting you right now.” They’re saying “you’ve made me feel like I’m not alone and I hope you don’t feel alone either.”\n\n\n\nBecause the truth is…\n\n\n\nLeaders get lonely.\n\n\n\nWhen everyone is looking to you for answers, for support, for guidance, you can feel like there’s no one to go to for your own support.\n\n\n\nAnd since all small business owners are leaders in one way or another, we all feel that loneliness sometimes—or maybe, we feel it quite often.\n\n\n\nThis month, we’re tackling that feeling of loneliness and the different kinds of support we can lean on to feel grounded and whole.\n\n\n\nWe’re going to tackle 2 sides of this...","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}