Dr. Julie Gurner - How to unlock your peak performance to achieve success!
👉🏼 About the Guest:
Julie Gurner (seen in WSJ, Forbes, Vox, and more) is a doctor of psychology and executive performance coach with nearly a decade of experience working with some of the nation's top tech and finance executives and teams.
Julie Gurner (seen in WSJ, Forbes, Vox, and more) is a doctor of psychology and executive performance coach with nearly a decade of experience working with some of the nation's top tech and finance executives and teams.
👉🏼 About the Host:
Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His SaaS product Shoutout generates $30k ARR which was sold to a UK-based product studio. Prev, Sharath worked for world-changing startups like Product Hunt and On Deck, where he helped build and nurture communities. He also grew his audience on Twitter from 200 to 20,000 using give-first principles and creating high-value content. Currently, he is the Head of Community at Threado and runs a newsletter called Sharath's CliffNotes alongside hosting this podcast.
👉🏼 Description:
Tune in as Sharath and Dr. Gurner discuss the habits, frameworks, and thought patterns that help founders and startup employees reach their peak performance points!
Timestamps:
Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His SaaS product Shoutout generates $30k ARR which was sold to a UK-based product studio. Prev, Sharath worked for world-changing startups like Product Hunt and On Deck, where he helped build and nurture communities. He also grew his audience on Twitter from 200 to 20,000 using give-first principles and creating high-value content. Currently, he is the Head of Community at Threado and runs a newsletter called Sharath's CliffNotes alongside hosting this podcast.
👉🏼 Description:
Tune in as Sharath and Dr. Gurner discuss the habits, frameworks, and thought patterns that help founders and startup employees reach their peak performance points!
Timestamps:
- 0:00 | Episode highlight
- 1:42 | Intro to Dr. Julie Gurner
- 2:52 | What does peak performance mean?
- 4:05 | What does being an executive performance coach mean?
- 5:43 | Dr. Gurner's recommended frameworks to create urgency in anything you do
- 8:20 | Dr. Gurner's entry into the executive coaching world
- 11:05 | How Dr. Gurner picked her niche in tech and finance
- 14:50 | The struggles of VC founders and why they face difficulties
- 17:48 | Founder struggles: money, thought patterns, and more
- 19:30 | Why founders fear failure
- 21:47 | Why founders hire executive coaches
- 25:50 | The founder-coach relationship
- 28:46 | First habits to be fixed as founders
- 32:39 | Best work time to reach max capacity
- 35:28 | Habits to implement and ones to avoid
- 40:16 | Balancing positive and negative motivation as a founder
- 42:30 | Dr. Gurner's #1 Framework
- 45:30 | How to define and measure peak success
- 47:56 | Questions to ask yourself to know your goals
- 52:00 | Role of AI in coaching
- 55:30 | Maintaining consistent confidence and conviction as a founder
- 59:15 | Setting expectations in Startups
- 1:03:10 | RapidFire 5: From worst founder habit to the best meal and more!
- 1:06:39 | Closing thoughts
👉🏼 Resources:
- Oprah Winfrey's Stanford Business School Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DlrqeWrczs
- Tom House, coach to Tom Brady: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_House
👉🏼 Where to find Dr. Julie Gurner:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/drgurner
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drgurner/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-julie-gurner/
- Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Julie-Gurner
- Website: https://www.drgurner.com/
- Ultra Successful Newsletter: https://drgurner.substack.com/
👉🏼 Where to find Sharath:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/5harath
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@5harath
- Website: https://5harath.com/
- Newsletter: https://5harath.substack.com/