How a Founder Rebuilt Himself by Rebuilding Everyone Else | ft. Leon Stendholm

I am, Chloe, responsible for, you know, my brother Taken's life.

And I'm responsible for four of my clients taking their life.

And people will say, no, but

you didn't pull the trigger.

Losing your own brother and four clients, like, that's a tough thing to go through.

So individual kids, there's nearly 3,000 kids individual that have come in the door.

When

I went to your website and watched the video, it nearly brought me to tears, the amount of impact that you're having on these kids.

Now I've got $4,500 left in my regs, $11,000 of the math doesn't add up.

I'm in trouble.

She was telling me that obviously when you're strength training, it actually rewires your brain and your plasticity.

Absolutely.

The number one antidepressant is resistance training.

Groundhog Day, we just go through the motions, which probably a lot of business owners can do.

It brings complacency and it's a mother of all efforts.

We think that we have to say that, no, we're okay when we're not.

Vulnerability is the new courageous, right?

Yeah, I think there's like, it's one thing I think to be vulnerable around your staff and show them that you're human.

I'm done.

I'm going to have to close the building.

I'm going to have to shut the building down.

Honestly, it's giving me goosebumps.

Horrible voicemail message that said, sorry bro, love to your family.

I gotta go.

Most business owners build a company because they want to make money.

a smaller amount build it because they want to make an impact he's a multi-award-winning operator a four-time author honorary doctor of arts and a national mental health advocate but none of these titles tell you why he actually built any of it he lost his brother to suicide and then four of his clients And he went on to build one of Australia's most awarded community businesses out there.

A charity with over 18,000 check-ins in three years and a 100% suicide prevention rate.

This is a conversation about building a business with meaning.

About the mental health crisis hiding inside high performers.

and about how personal tragedy can become the foundation of the most awarded business that you'll ever build.

Before we start, over 90% of people watching this podcast aren't actually subscribed and we release conversations like this every single week.

So make sure you hit that subscribe button.

Hello.

I am, Chloe, responsible for, you know, my brother Taken's life.

And I'm responsible for four of my clients taking their life.

And people will say, no, but

you didn't pull the trigger.

Losing your own brother and four clients, like, that's a tough thing to go through.

So individual kids, there's nearly 3,000 kids individual that have come in the door.

When

I went to your website and watched the video, it nearly brought me to tears, the amount of impact that you're having on these kids.

Now I've got $4,500 left in my regs, $11,000 of the math doesn't add up.

I'm in trouble.

She was telling me that obviously when you're strength training, it actually rewires your brain and your plasticity.

Absolutely.

The number one antidepressant is resistance training.

Groundhog Day, we just go through the motions, which probably a lot of business owners can do.

It brings complacency and it's a mother of all efforts.

We think that we have to say that, no, we're okay when we're not.

Vulnerability is the new courageous, right?

Yeah, I think there's like, it's one thing I think to be vulnerable around your staff and show them that you're human.

I'm done.

I'm going to have to close the building.

I'm going to have to shut the building down.

Honestly, it's giving me goosebumps.

Horrible voicemail message that said, sorry bro, love to your family.

I gotta go.

Most business owners build a company because they want to make money.

a smaller amount build it because they want to make an impact he's a multi-award-winning operator a four-time author honorary doctor of arts and a national mental health advocate but none of these titles tell you why he actually built any of it he lost his brother to suicide and then four of his clients And he went on to build one of Australia's most awarded community businesses out there.

A charity with over 18,000 check-ins in three years and a 100% suicide prevention rate.

This is a conversation about building a business with meaning.

About the mental health crisis hiding inside high performers.

and about how personal tragedy can become the foundation of the most awarded business that you'll ever build.

Before we start, over 90% of people watching this podcast aren't actually subscribed and we release conversations like this every single week.

So make sure you hit that subscribe button.

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