How to Lead When Your Life Is Falling Apart Behind the Scenes

About this episode

Vasavi Kumar discusses her personal experiences with grief and how it has influenced her business decisions, particularly regarding The Out Loud School and Black Friday sales.

In this solo episode, I’m pulling the curtain back on the three things sitting at the center of my world right now: The Out Loud School, Black Friday, and the six-month mark of losing my dad. I talk about what grief has clarified in my life, what I’m no longer willing to do in my business, and why I’m not running a Black Friday sale despite the entire online world screaming for urgency. I share the deeper truth behind the way I’m building The Out Loud School, not from panic or discounts, but ...

People in this episode

Host: Vasavi Kumar

Topics covered

• grief
• business decisions
• personal growth
• mental health
• self-improvement

Keywords

• grief
• business
• Black Friday
• self-improvement
• mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Out Loud School

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