Destigmatizing Mental Health in Entrepreneurship

I’m currently at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2025 in Indianapolis. Yesterday, at the end of the day, I spent several hours at High Alpha hanging out with my friends and

June 3, 2025 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Are You Ok?

After I wrote my post on Unhibernating, my long-time, empathetic friend Christopher Schroeder, whom I originally met through Ben Casnocha (that story is discussed in Give First: The Power of

April 23, 2025 · 5 min · Brad Feld

The Impact of Stress on the Well-being of Startup Founders and CEOs

Startup Snapshot, a data-sharing platform for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, recently released its latest report, The Untold Toll: The Impact of stress on the well-being of startup founders and CEOs.

May 8, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Pottery and Mental Health for Entrepreneurs in Boulder

After my post about the Founder Mental Health Pledge, I received a note from Kari Palazzari, the Executive Director of Studio Arts Boulder, a local nonprofit that manages a community

April 20, 2023 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Founder Mental Health Pledge

Since the middle of last week, there has been extreme stress on founders, startup leaders, and the extended startup community. This stress accelerated on Friday when the FDIC shut down

March 14, 2023 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book: Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind

Since Matt Levine is so effectively covering anything interesting in the world of the Twitter deal (and all kinds of bizarre, random, and complicated crypto, fraud, debt, and other financial

October 5, 2022 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Talking About Entrepreneurship and Mental Health With David Cohen

David Cohen and I have co-hosted the Give First podcast for 71 episodes. I think our host ratio is 80/20 David/Brad, and he’s covered everything in 2021 because I was

September 8, 2022 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Simply Begin Again

One of my mantras for v54 is “Simply Begin Again.” As I get closer to v55 (58 days from now), I’ve been thinking about it more. During my morning meditation,

October 21, 2020 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book: Portrait of Resilience

Daniel Jackson created a magnificent book. It’s a combination of three things: 1) Extraordinary personal stories about 2) The struggle with mental health, anxiety, and depression while 3) at MIT

September 10, 2020 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Energize Colorado Free and Low-Cost Mental Health Care

The Covid crisis has generated, or amplified, a number of separate crises. One of them is a mental health (or mental wellness) crisis. As humans, our entire way of living

July 2, 2020 · 2 min · Brad Feld