The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together

How to Run Your Business Without Letting It Run You

By: Sherry Walling PhD, Rob Walling

Narrated by: Sherry Walling

You run a business. And running a business is hard.

The burden of responsibility, the weight of stress, and the loneliness of running your business are a far cry from your friends who work salaried jobs. The path of least resistance is to let the stress and isolation of starting, running, and growing a business infiltrate most aspects of your life.

Over and over, we've watched our fellow entrepreneurs succumb to the mental toll and chaos of running a business. We've also experienced it firsthand as we've launched and grown our own businesses.

Why do I need this audiobook?

• You want to invest in yourself (and consequently, your business).
• You want to learn proven strategies and techniques to overcome the challenges that cause you heartburn.
• You want to get off the treadmill of stress and isolation that entrepreneurship brings.
• You want to prevent burnout, depression, isolation, and the emergence of damaging coping strategies and self-sabotaging choices.

Every aspect of this audiobook is a pairing of psychological expertise with decades of entrepreneurial experience. Here are just a few takeaways:

• New ways to deal with the responsibility and anxiety that go along with being an entrepreneur
• How a single shift in mindset can make a lifelong difference in your success and fulfillment
• Why knowing yourself and where you came from is crucial to your success
• How to succeed as an entrepreneur no matter your personality type
• How to keep stress from ruining your life and relationships
• Identifying and dealing with anxiety, burnout, and other common psychological burdens
• How to get more things done - and faster
• Staying connected with your significant other, friends, and colleagues
• How to deal with overwhelming success and (seemingly) massive failures
• How to find personal calm in the midst of chaos
• And much more....

©2018 Sherry Walling (P)2018 Sherry Walling

book on entrepreneurship that makes cents

Finally a book on entrepreneurship that makes cents

Thank you for speaking about the real challenges about entrepreneurship that no one else wants to talk about.

Great for entrepreneurs

Really insightful book and research for how to be a successful entrepreneur. The chapter on burnout and relationships was especially interesting

Helped me get my mojo back

Started out my software career as a solo entrepreneur, had some success, then burned out and started life over as a successful but dissatisfied salaried software engineer. This book brings together a lot of wise strategies that both reminded me what I want from work and helped me avoid some of the mental pitfalls I fell into during my first crack at owning my own business. I am encouraged to try again.

Crucial book for being sustainably successful

Authors clearly know their stuff, and aren't afraid to say what you need to but don't necessarily want to hear. Also actionable with clear takeaways and calls to action.

Solid advice

I have to say I was skeptical at first, but Sherry won me over. There is plenty in here to help reset, recalibrate, restore you back and forward to a good place mentally in your startup journey. Thanks and onward!

A++ 10/10

A++ 10/10 will read again. Should be required reading for any entrepreneur. And also very well read in the audio book version.

On my MUST READ recommendations list

This book is very helpful and full of actionable guidance and education. While listening to the audiobook, I felt like I was talking to a friend and someone who cares and understands. It made me feel normal and not alone in my thoughts. I definitely recommend that entrepreneurs and their family read/listen to the book. I bought the audio book and the hard copy to reference again in the future. Definitely a blessing to read/hear. I will pass it on to others.

Nice advice

I am a 30 year entrepreneur and I enjoyed reading this book. It confirmed and revealed a lot.

Sherry Walling Nails Mental Health for Founders

What? I'm not unique??? It's great to know there are others who have wrestled with these issues, found clarity, solutions, and pressed on (or not) with grace and success. Whenever I'm "between" books, I come back to this one, 3x now. Always grounding. Thanks Sherry and Rob!

Great book for tech, bootstrapped entrepreneurs

Really great book for entrepreneurs on the less talked about side of having a small software business such as depression, stress management, anxiety, and even suicide. Strongly recommend.