Anne Gillaspie is an entrepreneur and founder mental health keynote speaker and the host of the OnlyFounders podcast. She speaks about founder identity, burnout, loneliness, business and marriage, and the fear founders hide behind the highlight reel.
Founders are professionally optimistic. They have to be. Which means the hardest parts of building, the debt, the doubt, the marriage strain, the identity collapse after an exit, mostly happen in private.
Anne runs the conversation founders actually have at 11pm, on a stage, in daylight. Not war stories with a triumphant ending. The parts still unresolved.