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On #founderhacks this week we are joined by entrepreneur Nat Rich to discuss how people choose to show up at work compared to how they show up at home.
Nat is a mental health and wellbeing expert, workshop facilitator and a speaker and moderator for both in-person & virtual events.
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Does using social media enhance your mental harmony?
Nat doesn't "do" traditional social media anymore. She feels it divided her and that it wasn't serving her higher mental self.
She wanted to find a better platform, a better way to interact with her community, and came across Connected Fanatics - a site that connects physical products to curated digital experiences for real followers of you and your brand.
Can you use a platform like this to help you keep your brand authentic? To get your message out there cleanly to those that want to hear what you have to say - free from trolls, adverts and algorithms?
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Being bold to achieve great things?
James Watt, co-founder of BrewDog, published a story on LinkedIn about his 10 biggest mistakes.
Nat thought this was most inspiring. She also really liked his approach to opening BrewDog's US$30 million brewery and U.S. headquarters in Columbus - making the decision on doing it the day he got there and without any idea how he was going to come up with the money to pay for it.
Nat believes that as a person's experience grows, they can nurture a faith, either in their business, themselves or a greater being, to inspire big bold moves - even if that means straying off the script.
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Changing the world from inside out
Nat's greatest learning as a founder has been how being present in the here and now - being authentic to who we are and how we are - can prompt a radical shift in the culture of a business.
As a founder, and a facilitator, she has seen the results of doing this first hand.
For Nat, this awareness of one's self is the key to bringing this out in others you work with. By letting go of the expectations a founder places on their colleagues, giving them the space to show up at work as their true selves.
By framing this not as a destination or state-of-mind, but as a journey of self-discovery, Nat believes a founder can become whatever it is they are destined to become next - by learning who they are are right now.
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A quote from the late, great Oscar Wilde that we think Nat might agree with, "Be yourself. Everyone else is taken".
Don’t forget to check out the accompanying podcast version of #founderhacks for a tantalising live experience of team atomex!
