Joypreneur Podcast by Melanie Kovacs
Joypreneur Podcast by Melanie Kovacs
Podcast
EPISODE SUMMARY
Melanie Kovacs was kind enough to invite me to talk about how my way of working as a founder changed after my burnout and becoming a mom. I share with her which decision currency I chose and how I balance my ambition, work and family. We talk about my principles: family first, no employees and joy. Find out why this means limiting the growth of my company and more in this episode.
EPISODE NOTES
We talk about:
- 4:03 Why instead of taking a corporate job, I decided to create my first startup
- 5:39 How I fell in love with product management, after developing books and conferences
- 7:05 Why I decided to found the Product Academy when I became a mum
- 8:11 About being self-full, rather than selfish or selfless
- 9:52 About the power of being told “you can’t do this”
- 10:46 What I learned from my burnout about building a support village
- 11:30 How I setup my company, so it works for me and how I make decisions and set goals
- 14:25 About saying NO and my guiding principles
- 17:46 How I decide what kind of work I get done on which day
- 19:13 About managing time and energy
- 21:33 About being an extrovert and highly-sensitive
- 23:39 Setting a personal vision, priorities and OKRs
- 26:20 About Joypreneurship: personal WHY, a sustainable business and product-founder-fit
Resources mentioned
- “The Highly Sensitive Person” book by Elaine Aaron
- “Measure what matters: OKRs” book by John Doerr
- Self-fullness, Lana Jelenev about her path to self-fullness
