Brad Stulberg: Six Mental Health Principles Entrepreneurs Need to Beat Burnout | Mental Health | YAPClassic
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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
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What inspired Brad Stulberg to redefine success?
going on young and profiters today's yap classic is all about redefining success from the inside out if you've ever found yourself grinding non-stop hitting milestone after milestone yet still feeling like it's just never enough this conversation is going to hit home i sat down with best-selling author researcher and human performance coach brad stuhlberg to unpack groundedness which is his research-backed antidote to burnout anxiety and the non-stop chase for more Brad went from coaching elite performers and writing books on peak performance to privately battling severe OCD, intrusive thoughts, and a total mental collapse. That breaking point led him to redefine success around six principles of groundedness.
In this episode, Brad shows us how to loosen our grip on heroic individualism, relate to our emotions more skillfully, build deep community, and still pursue big goals without losing ourselves. It's an essential listen for all of us high achievers and young and profiters, especially in the new year. So without further ado, let's get into this interview with Brad Stuhlberg. I'd love to get more color about your background.
How did Brad's mental health crisis shape his perspective?
So would you kindly walk us through your career path and how you first got into performance coaching and writing and some of your proudest accomplishments?
Yeah, it's been a really circuitous path, to be honest. I've always just kind of vaguely followed my interests and somehow ended up here. I'll do my best to do it quickly, but it really started all the way back in high school when I fell in love with writing. And like most high school kids, I thought, OK, well, I'm going to be a writer. And I applied to Northwestern University's journalism school, which is one of the best in the country, if not in the world, and I didn't get in. And again, like most 16, 17-year-old kids, I said, oh, all right, I guess I'm not going to be a writer. And I went on to a different school. I studied economics and psychology. And I then took a job at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
What is the science behind groundedness?
And throughout school, throughout that first early job experience, what I didn't realize is that I was actually always writing. So even at a place like McKinsey, I was never the person building the financial model. I was always the person doing the memo for the client or coming up with the PowerPoint slide deck, telling some sort of story. And when I was at McKinsey and Company, I became really interested in health and healthcare. And I got a bird's eye view to all the ways that our healthcare system, at least here in America, is not the best. So that led me to public health school. And it was there that I kind of had this aha moment, at least for myself, that there's really two ways to go about health care.
One is the care part, which is often disease driven. And the other is the health part, which is, well, how do we stay healthy? How do we thrive? How do we keep ourselves out of the traditional health care system to begin with? And that set me on this path to exploring all things human performance, health and well-being. And through a whole bunch of just grind and pitching and getting rejected and getting rejected some more, I eventually got lucky and got some of my writing placed, which led to getting more writing placed. And it's just been an upworld swirl since then, though I still get declined more often than not.
That's awesome. Yeah.
What are the six principles of groundedness?
And you are the best-selling author of multiple books, which is awesome. And I love how you talked about using your writing skills even when you were in healthcare and how those skills still translated later on when you wanted to become a writer. Because a lot of people think that when they get into certain fields... that they're kind of locked in. But the fact is, and especially writing, writing cuts across so many different things. And I always say this, especially recently, as I have a marketing agency, and the hardest thing to hire for is people who know how to write well. And I feel like there's this big gap in our society of people who actually know how to write compelling stories.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What inspired Brad Stulberg to redefine success?
0:11–1:15
2
How did Brad's mental health crisis shape his perspective?
1:15–2:16
3
What is the science behind groundedness?
2:16–3:41
4
What are the six principles of groundedness?
3:41–4:34
5
How does patience contribute to long-term success?
4:34–5:02
6
In what ways does vulnerability foster confidence?
5:02–5:14
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How does emotional flexibility enhance wellness?
5:14–5:25
8
Why is building a deep community important for mental health?
5:25–1:16:07
Speakers
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