EP 8 Startup Burnout and Up Again with Dan Bartlett

Bristol born Dan Bartlett is a two-time founder, TRE practitioner, a coach and a long life practitioner of meditation in many different forms. As a self taught engineer, he embarked on a journey of entrepreneurship with the enthusiasm of youth. He co-founded a social network platform for meditator, which he then sold. His second venture, Almanac, a workflow tool and demanded that he worked around the clock to stay in touch with stakeholders in different times zones. Then the pandemic hit and his marriage fell apart creating the perfect storm. Burnout hit big time with fatigue, pain in the body and numbness. Feelings of incompetence drove him to work harder, which, instead of solving the problem, compounded it. Dan experienced very scary feelings and took four weeks off but as soon as he came back, the burnout symptoms returned. He felt resentful and cynical, which surprised him as this was not in his true nature. When he finally stepped away, he felt like a failure. He worried about having let people down. The thing that helped him the most were long walks in nature, cold plunges and forest bathing. To read Dan's account of his journey, click here. Dan's personal website can be found here. If you are interested in his Tech Coaching, click here. For TRE, click here. To connect to Dan on LinkedIn, click here.