Money vs. 2 Years of Life: Surrendering a Profitable Business for Inner Purpose with Gatis Zvejnieks CTO & Co-Founder of Overly.app

Fast growing agency, high profitable revenue, powerful team, but missing key player... happiness. Should you keep working and ignore your inner feelings, or should you drop everything you have built to switch runaway and go for your dream? In today's episode, we talk with Gatis Zvejnieks, a co-founder and CTO of the augmented reality startup Overlyapp.com. Learn about how Gatis traded money for two years of his life. How he lost all his happiness while driving a successful and fast-growing agency. Importance of listening to the inner voice. How Gatis overcame his fear of confrontation and what he learned from it. And why sometimes being unprepared can be good, whether it is going to India or selling all the furniture from your house? Overview of the topics: 00:32 Welcome Co-Founder & CTO of Overly Gatis Zvejnieks 00:54 Building a dream 10 years ahead of its time 02:01 Trusting the process: Overly’s decade 05:18 Growing agency to support product 06:00 What is Overly? 07:16 Fast growth, lost balance, missing happiness 08:22 Seeking support for redirection 09:16 Giving away profitable agency for free 13:04 Do you regret what you have done? 15:20 Feelings, emotions and entrepreneurship 16:57 What is Inner voice? 19:04 Self-searching in India 22:23 Building a good relationship with the co-founder 24:31 Imperceptible but dangerous: fear of confrontation 31:22 Back to basics with fresh mindset 32:26 How you can support Overly 33:47 Why bootstrapping might be the right way for your startup 36:59 How finding a mentor means finding time for yourself 38:41 Accelerator versus self-development program 40:10 Gatis secret of keeping momentum 43:56 Getting rid of everything to find yourself Welcome to Inner Power Particles podcast. Here we talk with entrepreneurs and leaders about their challenges and lessons learned to improve their inner strength. We do this to share their journey and knowledge with you so that you can improve as a leader and a person. Resources: To learn more useful tools for CEOs and C-level managers ➡️ ⁠https://www.cocoonprogram.com/resources⁠ Follow Gatis Zvejnkies CTO & Co-Founder of Overly ➡️ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gatis-zvejnieks-79797917/ Follow Farhad Niyoz CEO of Cocoon Program ➡️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farhadniyoz/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farhadniyoz/ X: https://twitter.com/FarhadNiyoz