We're excited (and a little nervous) to share that Mind Cloud 1000 Stories has officially launched, and Episode 1 has already been watched by thousands of founders in its first few days.
If you haven't caught it yet, here's what the buzz is about.
Passion isn't what gets you through year three. We used to believe it was.
In Episode 1, Genny sat down with over 1,000 founders' worth of pattern-recognition and admitted something most mentors won't: the "follow your passion" advice she used to give was wrong. What actually separates founders who make it from founders who burn out isn't passion at all.
Here's what you can learn, or simply remind yourself of:
→ Passion fades. Energy and drive are what actually carry you through the hard years, and they're not the same thing as motivation.
→ Funding doesn't fix a broken business. Capital is an amplifier, not the engine, it makes what's already working go faster, and what's already broken fail faster too.
→ You'll never feel "ready" to start. The founders who actually succeed are the ones who learned to move without certainty, not the ones who waited for the right idea to arrive fully formed.
If you're still waiting for passion to show up, or funding to fix things, or the idea to feel obviously right, this episode is for you.
Watch and subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU9yt7WORRg&t=131s
P.S. Episode 2 drops October 1st, on what it actually takes to build a business after 40. Don't miss it.
— Genny & Bruno
Mind Cloud Tribe
