Welcome to the Founders Matter Podcast.

The podcast where we talk openly about what it really means to build a business on your own terms.

In this second episode, Kat Sykes is joined by co-host Jase Smith to explore self awareness and why it matters for founders who want focus and a business that supports the life they are trying to build.

Drawing on the research behind the Mind Your Business programme, the conversation starts from a holistic view of entrepreneurship. The founder and the business are not separate entities. Kat and Jase discuss how overwhelm can reduce a founder’s sense of purpose, autonomy, and achievement, and how that loss can show up as decision fog and a feeling of drifting away from what the business was originally for.

The episode looks at common wellbeing pressures that appear consistently in workpl ...