Empower Founders: Exploring Boxing as a Mental Health Outlet

Instead of doing another dinner club, I decided to throw a boxing club.

Founders fight through so much on the day-to-day: the mental health challenges, the confidence battles, the life stress, the market, all the things you can't control, and all the things you can.

I wanted to give our founders the opportunity to physically work through feelings around rejection, discomfort, and performance. Movement is powerful, and as founders are building, so much accumulates in the body whether that be anxiety, fear, or the nagging sense of "Am I really going to pull this off?"

I did this event because it’s something I wished I had as I was working towards building Openspace. I figured, with the platform I have, why not give founders that space? A place to punch a bag and think about how to keep going at the same time.

For the founders who squabble up every day, a couple gems from our session:

Work with your strengths, not against them.

You're not fighting for the crowd, you're fighting for yourself and your dreams.

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