3,144 Items Into Grief, and Still Focused on Building
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Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future
27 min
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8 chapters
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How did the house fire trigger the episode’s grief narrative?
Everything I own burns to the groundfire. Not quite everything, but most of it. And I don't remember in the last year and a half that I've ever seen him laugh like that again, and I wonder, will we ever have a moment like this again? When we have such a silliness and normalcy in our lives. The breakdown is brutal. You have to let things go. What you see is a breakdown. I have No idea. what it is, how big it is, but I am being asked to believe. Can you lean in to believing that what will emerge Is it better? I'm three thousand one hundred and forty four items into my insurance list. And the photo that cracked it and that made me have a complete breakdown was a photo of our adult children building a human stack tower in the living room, you know, like when they lay on top of each other.
And they all cracking up and I see my husband and my husband stands there and he is just laughing. And I don't remember. In the last year and a half that I've ever seen him laugh like that again and I wonder will we ever have a moment like this again when we have such a silliness and normalcy in our lives? Welcome to a solo episode for the Business Growth Architecture of Founders of the Future. My name is Beat Schlett. I am your host. I'm the growth architect. I'm a fire survivor. And I am going to share with this honest episode with you sort of what it takes to recover from grief, to manage a catastrophic loss, not lose yourself in the process and lean into your calling. I know many of you are in a similar situation.
Your fire might not be a little fire, but it might be a fire for you. It might be that you have lost your job. It might be that you're thinking about going out in the world, setting up your own business. You may have major changes. You may be longing for something that is not yet yours. And you are looking at the external circumstances, which in everybody's book are pretty freaking dire right now. And figure out where are you in all of this? How are you building something? How you're building a future? And what's your part and your calling in all of this? So the numbers I've looked at it's like one in three adults are planning to start a business this year, which is which is much, much higher than we've seen it before.
So the call to set up your own business to get going is is very strong. I have been wrestling with this for years in where exactly should I put myself in service? So the story goes like this. I have built and sold a business to Bill Gates. That was many years ago. That's a story I've told. I've told that story many times. I went to a spiritual journey. On this spiritual journey, I got a clear calling. And it was that I had to change the way I did things that I needed to let go of everything, my story, how I tell my story, what I do, how I do it. And naively I thought, you know, it's just one of those things. And then four days later, after I got married, on my honeymoon, four days after this message, everything I own burns to the ground.
Not quite everything, but most of it. When you are forced on to your knees by these kinds of circumstances, and you know, I had an office, I had a podcast studio, I loved going to my office, I loved having people at my office, I loved seeing clients at my office. And that burned separately from my home.
What does being 3,144 items into the insurance list reveal about the loss?
So literally everything that I was told I needed to let go, I had To let go. A series of events that happens when something so catastrophic happens, or any type of grief really, and you can grieve for whatever you are grieving for in your life. For me, this is this particular grief of being in this catastrophical os, the loss of my life, the way I lived it, you know, not my life as, you know, I'm obviously alive, but my life, how I used to live it when With my husband and the family. And for 18 months I was dealing with the grief, trying to keep myself above water moving forward. If you d were to ask me what I did the first six months, I can't even tell you. I don't know who I talked to. I don't even know how we put out podcasts or what we did.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did the house fire trigger the episode’s grief narrative?
0:00–4:10
2
What does being 3,144 items into the insurance list reveal about the loss?
4:10–7:52
3
Who is the host and what is the purpose of this solo episode?
7:52–11:24
4
What are the three phases of breakdown, breakthrough, and breakout?
11:24–14:12
5
How did the spiritual calling influence the decision to let go of everything?
14:12–17:53
6
What signs of healing and hope emerge after the prolonged grief?
17:53–21:30
7
How does the host’s consulting framework address business scaling after a crisis?
21:30–24:23
8
What final message and call to action does the host leave listeners with?
24:23–27:38