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Scenario

How startup founders overcome fear of spending business profits on themselves

My co-founder and I bootstrapped this company and we're profitable but we're both so afraid of 'lifestyle inflation' that we're still paying ourselves poverty wages while sitting on a healthy cash reserve. We can't agree on when it's safe to actually pay ourselves what the business can afford.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Entrepreneurial trauma around financial fragility is preventing partners from claiming the fruits of their shared labor.

Your guide for this
Zera
Zera works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Financial anxiety and scarcity mindset?”

Peri

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