My co-founder and I built this company on our shared values about work-life balance and treating employees humanely, but now we're scaling and every investor meeting pushes us toward practices that feel like betraying who we said we were. We keep having these circular conversations about 'what we have to do to survive' versus 'what we stand for' and I can feel us both getting worn down.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who built something together on shared principles are discovering that growth demands choices that challenge their core professional identity.
“Where Are You with Professional identity and its limits?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
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